chuckled at the thought.
“Something funny, baby?”
Alexandra gazed up at him and smiled. “No, nothing. Just thinking about how bossy you are.”
He buried his hands in the hair at her temples and arched her head back at the same time he lowered his face until they were mouth to mouth. “Don’t forget uberly dominant and good looking as well.”
He pecked her lips lightly as she choked back a laugh.
“Modest too,” she mumbled against his mouth.
“Ummm hmmm.” He deepened the kiss, taking it to a point Alexandra had a hard time catching her breath. The man kissed with his whole body, incorporating all of her senses to a point where she was content to stay exactly where he put her and leave the decisions up to him.
“When will you start looking for my house?”
Silently, she grumbled about his abrupt change in topics. She had been enjoying herself too much to make such a quick change to business talk. It took a minute before Alexandra was able to answer. “When do you want me to start looking?” Right now she wanted to feel the weight of his body on top of hers. Her mind refused to focus on much else.
“I think tomorrow will be soon enough.”
“Okay then.” Hell, she would have agreed to just about anything if he’d only give her his mouth again.
“Baby?”
She’d been going in, lips puckered, when his quiet call had reached her ears. It took everything in Alexandra to open her eyes and focus on him. “Huh?”
“Is there any way you can leave for the rest of the day?”
Her whole body sat up and took notice at his question. Her nipples instantly beaded against the white lace of the bra she’d decided to wear. Her panties were already damp with proof of her desire. Something about his tone made her inner walls spasm in waves of anticipation. She looked out to the outer office. “My assistant will be in after lunch and I don’t have any appointments this afternoon, so I think it would be all right.”
It was so freaking okay Alexandra was ready to leap to her feet and race Raith to the car. He must have felt her muscles bunch in anticipation of rising. Stopping her with a hand on her shoulder, he shook his head.
“It’s still an hour until lunch.”
“It’s—”
She didn’t get to finish before he placed a finger over her lips to quiet her. Raith stood, putting the hard bulge of his cloth-covered cock at face level. Alexandra was just about to start to work toward freeing his shaft when she was pulled to her feet and crushed into a tight bear hug.
“Meet me at the timeshare in an hour, Xandra.”
But she wanted to go with him now . Arguing with him would only be counterproductive though. This she knew from experience. Raith smiled when she snapped her jaw closed without doing so.
“You’re a fast learner.” His laughter followed him to the outer door where he turned and pierced her with a heated stare.
“The door will be unlocked. I want your clothes off the minute you come through it. When you’re nude come and find me.”
With those parting words to keep her on edge for the next hour, Raith walked out the door.
Alexandra wasn’t sure how she’d managed to keep her cool for a whole hour, but she had. Just barely. Never before had she been so excited to leave for lunch. And so nervous , she thought as she walked up to the door of the timeshare Raith occupied.
She stepped stealthily through the threshold without bothering to knock, then began removing her clothes. The desire to rip the garments from her body and throw them on the floor as she ran to find him were nearly overwhelming, but she didn’t allow herself to do so. Instead, she folded each article of clothing as she removed it, then set them on the arm of the couch before departing the living room in search of Raith.
Everything was quiet except for the sound of the shower coming from the master bedroom. Excitement coursed through her veins as she approached the glass enclosure.
“Come on in,
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