around her nipples with his hard body, heavy and warm, over hers, she’d been close to orgasm. It had taken Toni a few seconds to realize what she was doing. She’d been so busy imagining what it would feel like to have Jason touching her, she had lost control.
“Aaargh,” Toni groaned again as she punched the pillow repeatedly with her clenched fist. I’m going to look delightful in the morning, bags on bags, a bloody set of luggage under my eyes if I don’t get some sleep.
The bed linen felt like it was lined with barbed wire and ultimately won the war declared on her sexually frustrated and sensitized skin. She had suffered enough. Toni got up from the bed, then shook her head as she looked at the tangle of twisted sheets she’d left behind. She found her dressing gown and slipped her arms through the sleeve openings. The light and delicate fabric of her luxurious covering might as well have been a sheet of sandpaper rubbing against her body.
After tucking her room key into the pocket, she quietly opened her door, just enough to poke her head outside and check that the corridor was clear. Finding it empty and not hearing any sound of approaching footsteps, Toni pulled the door closed behind her until the sound of the lock clicked—a sound that in the still of the corridor seemed like the boom of a bass drum being struck.
She took the three steps that separated her room from Jason’s and, summoning up all the bravado she could muster, Toni knocked on the door. It was really more like a brush of her fingertips against the two inch thick wood, but it was the best she could manage, given that she was already trying to quell the sound of her heart pumping so loudly that it was probably making enough noise to wake the entire hotel.
For one short moment Toni imagined a squad of firemen, fully suited up, with hoses and axes at the ready, racing down the hallway searching for the source of the loud thumping horn that sounded like an alarm but was in fact her heart beating. If he doesn’t open the door by the time I count to ten, I’m going back to my room and will just have to deal with the sexual tension I’m feeling myself… One… Two…
Chapter Five
Jason had been able to hear Toni moving about her room. At first he’d suspected she was making a comfort trip to the bathroom but as he’d lain staring at the ceiling—something he’d been doing for the last hour or so as he’d tried, unsuccessfully, to make his mind and body relax so he could get some shut-eye—he’d heard the sound of her room door opening.
What the hell is she up to ?
Was she making a run for it? Trying to escape from under his watch, have the holiday she thought she’d been having out from underneath her family’s scrutiny, her father’s control? Was his little sexy bird flying the coop while she thought he slept? Well, he had news for her. Maybe he would put her over his knee and paddle that ample and sexy butt of hers for the attempted break-out—or at least threaten to do it. He could hardly wait to see her reaction to his idea, his punishment.
Jason had sprung out of bed, dragged his jeans on and stormed over to the door, flinging it open so he could stop Toni before she had the chance to get down the hallway to the lifts.
What he hadn’t been expecting was to see Toni standing in front of his door. And what was more unexpected was that she was standing there before him in her sleepwear, a filmy material that did nothing to hide the roundness of her breasts or the curve of her hips. It was mesmerizing, tantalizing. One second Jason had been imagining the pleasure of bending her over his lap and the next he was doing all he could not to fall at her feet and beg for mercy.
“Toni, what’s wrong, luv?” he managed to croak out, trying to ignore the compulsion that was urging him to drag her into his arms and smother her lips with his own.
“I… I…couldn’t sleep,” she replied, her words coming out