Free Rose Blood by Jessica Miles Page B

willingly to whatever was to follow…  how could she possibly want two different men so very much, it just wasn’t right… She was in love with Harry for God’s sake… But that thought didn’t stop her.
    “Marcus, this seems to be going full on right now.”
    He was kissing her neck with a lot of enthusiasm.
    “No, it isn’t…” his mouth watered with her delicious scent and the taste of her… he licked her neck again for the final time.
    “Kinda seems that way to me and I’ve got used to the idea.”
    “It’s just a heated kiss Rose. We’re going to stop right now.”
    “We are? Well that’s a surprise!”
    “Not for me… I am quite the gentleman actually… heated kissing is all we are doing tonight Rose.” His thoughts weren’t at all gentlemanly in fact and his desire to taste her was all too strong. But she wasn’t quite ready for him yet. He wanted it all, everything she had to offer… he would wait… not for much longer though… He wasn’t that much of a saint.
    He broke away and stood up running his fingers through his hair and straightening himself up. The lust he felt was brimming over. His mouth was swimming with the exquisite taste of her. He needed to calm down and fast.  His tongue pushed against his teeth for a second and he fought back the reaction to it digging his nails into his palms. For a few seconds more he stared at the vision of female beauty lying before him on his snow white bed, in her black dress, surrounded by her long dark hair. Her face was a little flushed and she looked confused, more than a little rejection was evident in her lovely eyes.
    He felt the hunger rushing through him in waves, blinding him with its intensity… he had an overpowering need and desire for her.
    “Jeff will take you home now.”
    He turned and left the room to get his phone from his jacket and call Jeff. She needed to go right now.
    That was all much too close for comfort. But she needed to be far more desperate for him first. He’d let this evening sit in her mind for a while first…
    He’d wait for 3% day… whatever that may bring.
    He had just put her on his full list – right at the very top…

Chapter 14
    Rose walked into the office lift the following day in an odd and confused mood. Her love life had morphed from non existent to rather more than she could handle and far too complicated in the last few days. She was in love with one man and in lust with another it would seem. The fund must come first, she told herself sternly. No matter what else happened and how events changed in her personal life, that must remain constant.
    She was still coming to terms with the rather strange end to her evening. Marcus had simply disappeared from the room with scarcely a word said. His driver had arrived a few minutes later and had escorted her to the car and she had been driven home. It had been odd, downright peculiar in fact. One minute heat and passion, the next, gone…
    She initially thought it was perhaps something she had done or said, but thinking the events over and over, she could see no particular fault of hers.
    Had Marcus simply changed his mind?
    Anyway… if he didn’t have the decency to at least say goodnight, she wasn’t going to bother with him. He was just a fund after all. A big pot of money. End of! Still, she couldn’t get him out of her mind. He had really got her going and swept her off her feet with his playboy charm, his perfect pre kiss and scorching hot samples…
    As she left the lift and turned to enter the office she had a rather big surprise. On the top of her desk sat a bunch of pink roses in a beautiful hand tie arrangement with a whipped up massive white bow. She was quite sure Harry hadn’t sent them judging by the look on his face right now. He wouldn’t have anyway… no way would he be this blatant in the office. How had Marcus got these here so fast… it was only 8 in the morning!  Money helped obviously.
    As she approached her desk a loud