I tore my gaze away from him and walked over to the cabinets to put the equipment away. “I can’t.”
“Why not?”
“I’m an employee,” I said, staring at the cabinet. Part of me hoped he would leave, so I wouldn’t need to face him again. I wasn’t sure how much willpower I had remaining. There were only so many smiles a woman could receive before she gave in. “I’ve only been working for the team for a month, and…”
Suddenly, he was right behind me. “There’s something here,” he said, breath warm on my skin.
“Rhett…” I said.
“Tell me I’m wrong,” he said. “Tell me there’s not this current of electricity between us, whenever our skin touches.”
To prove the point, he lightly touched my back with his fingertips. Immediately, my heart began pounding faster.
“There,” he whispered. “Right there. That’s the feeling. It’s not nothing, June.”
I closed my eyes. I wanted this, wantedhim, more badly than I expected. I didn’t dare open my mouth because I was afraid the only word I would be able to say wasyes.
“I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the kiss,” he said, voice still low. It rumbled through me like an earthquake. “I haven’t been able to stop thinking aboutyou, June. At practice, during games, while we’re rehabbing. And based on the way you’ve been looking at me? You can’t stop thinking about me, either.”
He was right. It was all I thought about when I went to bed, the thing that had been haunting me whenever the lights went out.
“Tell me to stop,” he whispered, “and I will walk away right now.”
I opened my mouth to do just that, but my tongue wouldn’t form the words. If anything, I wanted him more than he wantedme.
“That’s what I thought,” he said, spinning me around to face him. He paused a moment, his sapphire gaze flicking down to my lips, then back to my eyes, penetrating directly into my soul.
“Do you trust me?” he breathed.
I bit my lip, and nodded.
“Good,” he said before kissing me.
11
June
Rhett kissed mehard, much harder than the kiss we’d shared on the ice. It was like he was proving something to me. All of my hesitation disappeared under his touch with the way his lips slid against mine, warm and wet andhungry. He pushed me against the cabinet, which slammed shut from the force. I parted my lips and he slid his tongue inside my mouth, dancing and twirling against my own tongue. A moan escaped my lips, and he took the opportunity to move his kiss to my neck.
“What if someone sees us?” I said, although it wasn’t really a protest.
“We’re hidden in this nook,” he murmured into my neck.
“They’ll be back from drills soon,” I added.
He grinned lustily at me. “Then we’d better hurry.”
I clawed at his shirt, and he pulled it the rest of the way over his head. God, he wasshredded. Single-digit body fat, accentuating every line and valley of his body.
We probably shouldn’t be doing this,a voice whispered across my mind. This was my dream job, and I shouldn’t do anything to jeopardize it.
But that’s what made it so much fun.
I could feel the raw need in his fingertips as he pulled off my jeans and panties. Our lips remained locked together as he scrambled to remove his post-game shorts.
Before I could catch a glimpse of his cock, he lifted me off the ground and into his arms. I wrapped my legs around him, feeling his cock brushing against my skin. I shivered at the touch even though his hard length radiated heat. I wanted him inside me, spreading my lower lips and plunging deep into my pussy…
And then he did.
