instinctively that once they started it wouldn’t be enough. He’d destroyed her once. No way would she let it happen again.
She couldn’t do this.
‘Don’t,’ she whispered.
He didn’t let her go.
If anything he inched her closer.
‘But, what if it’s good?’
‘I don’t want it to be good.’
‘Who knows where it might lead?’
Her pulse beat too loud in her ears. ‘Exactly. I don’t want it to lead anywhere.’
The humorous twitch of his mouth told her he saw right through her.
‘Liar.’
‘It’s not a good idea to start something we can’t finish,’ she insisted desperately.
Ain’t that the truth.
Dark eyes held hers.
‘Hmm. I thought I’d have plenty of time to woo you. But after you spent a week in intensive care, I realised I was wrong.’
Coco had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.
What did the fact she’d been critically ill have to do with anything?
Confused, she stared into those dark eyes.
‘Woo me?’
‘Romance you.’
What?
She didn’t want him to romance her.
But saw the truth in his eyes along with a desire that made her want to flee.
What the hell had got into him?
Coco forced herself to remain still, and concentrated on his strong jaw.
Mouth dry, she swallowed, and blinked up into his face.
His pupils dilated with arousal.
Coco took a breath.
Excitement skittered up her spine.
His scent whirled around her, hot spicy cologne, soap, and pure undiluted man.
Static electricity hummed in the atmosphere.
Coco trembled between his hands, tried desperately to pull free, but Rafe held her firm.
Chapter Five
Stunned by his brutal arousal, Rafe watched her face.
A tiny tremble of her bottom lip, full and pouty, attracted his attention.
Her breathing was shallow and too fast.
He bent his head towards her mouth.
The light floral perfume she wore mingled with a scent that was pure Coco. It spun around him, wonderful and hot.
Heat pulsed from the frantic beat under her ear.
He tried again to see through those damn bangs to her eyes.
A quick flick of a pink tongue on her top lip gave his cock a sharp jolt.
Body held utterly still, she studied his face.
Rafe laid the palm of his hand on her cheek.
God, her skin was so soft and smooth.
And all the time she watched him.
Not once did he ask himself what the hell he was doing.
Not once did he wonder what might the consequences of his actions be?
It didn’t matter.
Because he simply couldn’t stop himself.
The look in those wide violet eyes, wary, needy, did something to him.
His eyes never left hers as his head dipped and his mouth met hers.
He kept the kiss soft on her tremulous mouth as he enjoyed the warm, sweet flavour of her and slowly and gently pulled her closer, body to body.
Her hand lay flat on his chest, then it slid up to his shoulder, around the back of his neck, and those beautiful eyes went hazy.
The way she was trembling in his arms warned him to take it nice and easy.
She tasted fucking amazing.
His tongue traced her bottom lip, slid into her warm mouth and did the dance of love with hers.
For a first kiss it was incredible.
Her mouth was so exquisitely soft and adorably hesitant, lips that quivered under his in anticipation.
God knew he wanted her.
And he might not like having it thrust down his throat by gossip columnists, but he knew sex was nothing new to Coco.
But the way she kissed him, so intimately, so passionate in her response to him disguised nothing. She was kissing him as if she was pouring her heart, her soul into the act. Her physical need of him obvious by the way her breath shivered in and out of her lungs, by the way her pelvis tilted, pressing and rubbing her mound against his rock hard shaft.
Jesus.
Her fingers dug into his neck as she clung to him.
Then she sucked his tongue between her lips.
The long, low moan from her throat went straight to a titanic erection that was fast getting out of control.
Testing, his knuckles