Free Her Pregnancy Surprise by Kim Lawrence

against his mouth. The pressure of his lips was gentle but insistent; his mouth was cool and firm against her own.
    Luc drew back, his lashes lifted from the angle of his knife-edged cheekbones as he examined the passion-flushed features of the woman who stood in the circle of his arms. He gave an almost imperceptible nod of satisfaction.
    ‘ Now you look like a woman who’s shared a few illicit kisses in the moonlight.’
    She was floating; she was on fire, every inch of her skin was prickling with the heat of desire. His words had the same effect as an icy shower.
    ‘There is no moon and I will not be used by you or anyone else!’ she declared in a low, passionate voice.
    ‘I wasn’t using you; I was kissing you and,’ he added with a slow, contemplative smile, ‘I was enjoying it.’
    ‘How nice for you that you’re happy in your work. Next time maybe you might like to ask whether I want to bekissed,’ she told him, dragging a hand across her mouth. The symbolic gesture just reminded her of how sensitised and tender her lips felt.
    Luc, no longer languid, looked suddenly incredibly furious. ‘Are you suggesting I kissed you against your will?’
    ‘Not exactly ,’ she conceded, her glance dropping guiltily from his outraged face.
    ‘Good,’ he bit back, not sounding much mollified. ‘Because I don’t need a signed affidavit to know when a woman wants to be kissed. I know and you wanted it.’
    The shocking sound of her hand connecting with his cheek resounded across the courtyard. Megan’s hand went to her mouth as her eyes travelled from the livid mark developing on his lean cheek to his eyes, they told her nothing more than his blank expression.
    ‘That was unforgivable,’ she said, totally contrite. The fact that physically she was much weaker than him was in her eyes no excuse for her loss of control. She felt deeply ashamed. ‘You’re right.’ Humiliation sat like a leaden weight in her stomach. ‘I did want you to kiss me.’
    ‘You did?’
    She nodded; his expression was as unrevealing as his tone. ‘That’s why I was so angry…not with you,’ she hastened to assure him. ‘With me.’
    It was ironic—she had been busy getting het up worrying that Luc was getting too immersed in his role, when in reality he wasn’t the one getting reality mixed up with fiction; she was the one letting her fantasies take control!
    Luc watched as her slender shoulders sagged.
    ‘Obviously this thing is not going to work; it’s not your fault.’ Luc, after all, had done everything she had asked of him. ‘It’s me.’
    ‘You wanted me to kiss you…?’ A muscle in his hollow cheek clenched.
    Megan looked at him, her frustration showing. Had he not heard anything she had said after that? She hoped hehad; she didn’t much fancy grovelling all over again. In fact she refused to, she decided with a spurt of defiance.
    ‘Well, I wasn’t exactly averse to it,’ she admitted gruffly. ‘I appreciate you were doing what you thought I wanted.’
    ‘I was doing what I hoped you wanted,’ he contradicted, sliding his hands down her slender back until they came to rest on the firm curve of her bottom. His grin flashed out minus the edge of cool dispassion and mockery she had grown accustomed to. ‘Now I know…’
    ‘Know what?’ She gave a startled gasp as he drew her towards him until their hips collided. She inhaled sharply as hot desire zapped through her body; he was rock-hard against the softness of her belly. An energising wave zapped through her body, her knees sagged and Luc took up the slack ably, wrapping one strong arm around her ribcage.
    ‘Know you want this.’ He ground his hips gently against her abdomen. Megan’s head fell back bonelessly as the silent groan locked in her tight throat struggled to escape. Mutely, she nodded. Not pretending any more, felt strangely liberating.
    His big hand cupped the back of her skull, drawing her face up to his. Looking into his platinum-grey eyes