“That’s not what you’re wearing?” Mitch teased as he reached
out to rub the fabric of her robe between two fingers.
“It looks perfect to me.”
His simple words were offered with a smile. But there was a
look in his eyes that fascinated Livi. A promise of
delights she’d never imagined, a rock-solid confidence that
he’d be the best she’d ever encounter.
Livi didn’t know where it came from. She was never forward
with men. Even after a year of marriage she’d always waited
for Derrick to initiate sex.
But this was Mitch.
She felt things with him that she’d never felt before.
Edgy desire and a white-hot need.
Tempting passion and naughty hunger.
And comfort.
As if she were safe. Not just physically safe because he
was a SEAL. But safe to be herself, without fear of judgment
or reprisal.
It was a total turn-on.
“Actually,” she told him as she unknotted her robe, “I
thought I might wear this.”
It only took a tiny shrug to send the fabric sliding over
her skin, down her body and to the floor.
Leaving her wearing two tiny bits of black silk, and the
heat of Mitch’s gaze. Her nerves were gone. There was no
room for them in a body filled with desire.
“You wear that and we’re going to have some problems,”
Mitch said, his voice a little huskier than before. The
hand that’d tested the fabric of her robe slid along her
bare arm now, close enough to warm her breast, but not
touching.
Need coiled, low and tight in Livi’s belly.
“What sort of problems?” she asked, not moving. Barely
breathing.
“Hunger problems,” he told her as his hand skimmed her waist
now, up to the edge of her bra, then down her side to the
tiny strip of lace at her hip. “We’re definitely going to
go hungry.”
She didn’t see him move.
She had no idea how he went from standing a foot away to
sweeping her into his arms, but there she was. Livi gasped,
wrapping her arms around his shoulders so she wouldn’t fall.
The she realized she was in no danger of falling. At least,
not onto the ground.
“Nobody’s ever swept me off my feet before,” she said, a
little stunned.
“Let’s see what else we can do that you’ve never done
before,” Mitch suggested just before his mouth took hers.
