blinds, letting sunlight stream into the room.
Making the bed would take a few seconds. Just tug on the corners of the doona and—
Sophie yelped.
Any blood in her face and upper body drained into her legs. Her vision blurred and dizziness overwhelmed her.
Lying in the center of the bed, beneath the rumpled, crumpled doona, was Nathan.
A mass of pillows surrounded his head, almost camouflaging him. In the darkened room, he’d been invisible. It was only with the light flooding through the windows that she could see him.
“Mornin’.” His smile was lazy and his voice roughened by sleep. “I wondered when you’d notice I was here.”
Sophie prayed to God she didn’t pass out. Then she prayed to God she did. Because if she was unconscious, she wouldn’t have to face up to the mortifying circumstances.
For the second time in two days, she’d walked in on a guest.
She opened her mouth to apologize, but nothing came out. Not even an awkward squeak.
“What, nothing to say? Not even a greeting?”
“I…” Sophie’s voice erupted as a hoarse rasp. She cleared her throat. “I knocked. And called out. You never answered.”
“I know.” Nathan nodded.
“You know?”
“I heard you.”
“And you never answered?”
“Would you have come in if I had?”
“Of course…” She let the words trail off, unsure what she would have done. Her instinct would have been to ram the door down and race inside. Her professional self wouldn’t have allowed it. She shook her head. “No.”
His smile was small, sexy and just as devilish as it had been yesterday. “That’s why I never answered.”
Dear Lord. His voice should be illegal. The soft hum drifted over her skin, electrifying it. “You wanted me to come in?”
“I wanted you. Period.”
“You what?” Certain she’d misheard, she shook her head, as though clearing white noise from her ears.
“I want you, Sophie.” The truth of his declaration radiated from his eyes. The passion she saw in them mirroring the passion she’d seen in her dream last night. Passion, desire, arousal, lust. All of them vivid in his brown gaze.
Last night she’d awoken moaning, her body writhing, caught in the middle of an intense orgasm.
Nathan sat up, the doona falling low on his waist, revealing the exquisite chest and shoulders Sophie had… Oh, God, she’d kissed them in her dream. Licked, kissed and nipped every inch.
Dreaming about a sexual act may represent a repressed sexual desire or a need for physical or emotional love.
Is that what her dream had meant last night? And every night for that matter? She needed physical or emotional love?
Okay, maybe. It wasn’t beyond the realm of possibility. Sophie longed to be in a loving relationship. She’d broken up with her last boyfriend a while ago—and no, her dreams had not influenced that decision.
Did seeing Nathan’s face for the first time now mean she wanted his physical or emotional love?
Bah. Impossible. She didn’t know him. How could she want that from him?
“I wanted you yesterday too,” Nathan whispered. “When you knelt at my feet to pick up your bottles—all I could imagine was your mouth on my cock and your gaze on my face.” A look of pain creased his features.
Sophie swallowed. Yesterday, she’d come this close to his dick. And even closer to licking it. God help her, she’d wanted to lick it. Just stick her tongue out an inch and taste the tip…
In her dream she had tasted it. Licked, kissed and sucked every inch.
The memory made her lightheaded. Made her breasts tighten and her pussy pulse.
She wanted a real taste.
Maybe her dream had nothing to do with emotional love and everything to do with physical. There was no denying how her body ached to join with his. How she longed to feel his lips on hers, his mouth on her breasts…
“I wanted you yesterday at the pastry shop too.” Nathan’s voice drizzled over her like melted chocolate. Sweet, creamy and so damn smooth.
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