Free Flaming Desire - Part 1 (An Alpha Billionaire Romance) by Helen Grey Page B

don’t either, really,” he grinned. “Would it be totally inappropriate if I kissed you?”
    The switch in topic startled me. “Yes,” I said, my eyes not leaving his for a moment. Nevertheless, I didn’t move as he slowly leaned over me. He was going to kiss me. Every nerve in my body anticipated it while my brain kept shouting at me to walk away. Still, I had nowhere to go. My back was practically pressed up against the side of the Jeep. Matt was standing so close to me that I felt the heat emanating from his body. The truth of the matter was, I didn’t want to escape. I wanted him to kiss me. I just wouldn’t say the words.
    He obviously didn’t need them. At first, the touch of his lips was light, feathery, and oh so soft. Then, the pressure gradually increased until I responded. Boy did I! My ears began to ring and I vaguely heard the sound of keys dropping. Oh God, I had never been kissed like this. I refused to contemplate exactly how skilled Matt was at kissing when the tip of his tongue caressed first my upper lip, then my lower one, gently urging my lips apart.
    He braced his hands on the hood of the Jeep on either side of my head as his kiss deepened. I didn’t know what to do with my hands, so I tentatively placed them on his waist. I felt his muscles clench at my touch. Oh God. His tongue was in my mouth, swirling, tangling, and teasing mine. After the briefest hesitation, and quite instinctively, my tongue did some tangling of its own.
    In seconds, I felt dampness in my panties and my nipples hardened. I felt the pounding of my pulse in my neck. Never in my life had I been kissed so thoroughly, so seductively, and his hands weren’t even touching me! Yet. The kiss lasted for what seemed like forever as my bones turned liquid and I felt myself trembling. Then, as suddenly as it began, he lifted his lips from mine, stared down at me a moment, and then straightened.
    He cleared his throat. I removed my hands from his waist as he bent down to retrieve the keys I had dropped onto the asphalt. He handed them to me and then grinned.
    “Come on, Jesse, let’s go grab a bite and a coke or something. Talk some more.”
    I didn’t even try to correct him about my proper name as he turned and began to walk toward a cluster of cars in the next row of vehicles. My body burned with desire even though I tried to tamp it down. Never in my life had I… if the kiss hadn’t stopped when it had, would I have stopped it? Would I have done what I wanted to do? Would I really have unzipped his pants and pulled out his cock like I had watched Vanessa do with Doctor Linder?
    Just the thought of it cause the ember of desire burning low in my belly to surge hot again. Damn. I was definitely in trouble now, I thought, following him to his car.

Chapter 5
    The sunset to the west painted the desert landscape in brilliant orange and purples. Sunrise and sunset were my favorite times of the day. It seemed as if the desert landscape around Santa Fe did its best to awe and inspire every time the sun rose or set. I never minded getting up early because I knew that ju st seeing the sunrise would lift my spirits.
    I followed Matt to his black Ford F-250 with a metal cargo container stored in the bed just below the rear window. I began to have second thoughts about going with him for something to eat. Was I blurring the lines? I knew there were no rules regarding fraternizing outside of the hospital, but after all, I was his mentor for the time being.
    Would hooking up with Matt, even one time, blur my objectivity? This was an important time in his career path. Would a fling with him—no matter how much I desired it—prove a distraction not only to me but for him?
    From what I had seen today, I doubted if Matt would be apt to make many mistakes, but it had been his first day. And all things told, it had been a relatively calm and quiet day in the ER.
    “What do you feel like?” he asked, pressing a button on the remote control