Free Come Away With Me (The Andrades) by Ruth Cardello Page B

feel the heat rising from her skin. “Because if you sleep with me once, you’ll sleep with me twice?”
    Her cheeks turned a delicious shade of pink. “ I can’t believe I said that. Sometimes I speak before I think.”
    “ I appreciated your directness.” He reached out and tucked a loose tendril behind her ear. “What do you want, Julia? What did you come to New York for? I can get it for you.”
    She pulled her head away from his touch. “I don’t want anything from you.”
    “ Everyone wants something.” I want to fuck you, Julia. Again and again until I get you out of my head. He pulled her to him and closed his mouth over hers. She met his mouth hungrily. He claimed her tongue with his own and reveled in her responsiveness. Where he led, she eagerly followed. Picking her up, he carried her over to his desk, pushing everything impatiently aside before sitting her on it so he could free his hands for more important things.
    He told himself to go slowly, but the desire that burned in her blue eyes was his undoing. He needed to see her. To taste her. Without taking his eyes from hers, he tore the front of her shirt open, sending buttons flying. Her mouth dropped opened in an audible sigh and he was lost.
    He pushed her knees f arther apart and stepped between them. He leaned forward, ran his hand up her back beneath her now-open shirt, and arched her toward him. Her nipples were hard little nubs beneath her satin bra. Nubs he couldn’t resist. He took one hungrily into his mouth, even through the material. Warming it with his tongue. Teasing it with his teeth.
    She moaned and pressed herself upward and deeper into his mouth , and that was all the encouragement he needed. He ran a hand along the back of her bra and smiled against her skin when he found no clasp.
    Whoever created front-release bras was a genius.
    Gio eagerly unclasped the front of the bra and paused to appreciate the perfection that was Julia. She raised her head, her eyes glazed with passion, and he understood her need. His hand rubbed and lightly pinched one of her nipples while his mouth adored and feasted upon the other. Then he moved his mouth and paid her other breast equal attention.
    She clung to his shoulders , then buried one hand in his hair. He ground his hard cock against her through their clothes. Desire surged within him. He couldn’t get enough of her. Every taste of her pushed whatever control he had further and further away. He impatiently reached for the fastening of her pants.
    “Knock , knock,” a jovial male voice said from the doorway. “Well, will wonders never cease? I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes.”
    Raising his head reluctantly from Julia’s neck, Gio turned, shielding her from his brother Luke’s view. “What are you doing here?”
    Smiling unabashedly, Luke leaned against the doorjamb. “Rena called me and said you were having a rough day, and I was ending a shift at the hospital anyway. She thought you might want to talk. It appears she was wrong.”
    “Get the hell out of here.”
    Still smiling, Luke wiggled his eyebrows and asked, “You’re not going to introduce me?” Normally Luke was the most reasonable of his brothers, but presently his curiosity was outweighing his survival instincts.
    “No,” Gio said with finality.
    “I heard you’re coming to the wedding and bringing someone with you. Is this her?” His smile widened and his eyes twinkled with humor.
    Gio aggressively rose to his full height. “You won’t live to find out if you don’t leave now,” he said. Luke put up both hands in playful resignation and left, still smiling as he turned away.
    Releasing a calming breath, Gio turned around and instantly felt like an ass. Julia was clutching her now buttonless top closed and sliding off his desk. The mood was broken. “Sorry about that,” he said gruffly.
    Her half smile set his heart thudding in his chest again. “It’s okay.”
    “I should