Page 20 of Protecting Angel


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An expectant silence settled in. Only the gentle night wind, and the gurgling of the jacuzzi, existed.

“Are you wishing for something in the past, then?” I swallowed dryly. “Because I can’t change the past.”

“Let’s make it the present then,” Sawyer countered. “I wish I could kiss younow.”

I stared back at him, remembering the comforting feel of his body. His corded arms, folded around me. The ferocity of his manhood, pressed tightly into the small of my back.

“Then do it.”

Carter and Bodie slid immediately aside, as Sawyer glided over to my side of the hot tub. I swooned as his lips crashed against mine, his arms working themselves around me beneath the churning, swirling waters. I could feel the heat of his mouth, his breath, his hot tongue, twisting tantalizingly against mine. Steam rose up around us. Bubbles fizzed and popped, tickling my shoulders as I kissed him back, clutching him in desperation, rolling my mouth slowly and sensuously against his.

Nothing else existed but us. All other reality dropped away as his hands explored, unhindered and unseen, beneath the surface. I felt his fingers brush me, and I shivered through the heat of his touch. My hands found his thick blond hair as I pulled him even closer, desperate to taste that perfect, beautiful mouth…

“Fuckkk.”

My pulse was still thundering when the kiss broke, and our faces drifted apart. Carter was staring at us like he’d just seen a live sex show. He looked just as jealous as he was turned on.

“What?” I challenged him, daringly.

“I just so happen to have a wish too,” he all but stammered.

To my shock and surprise, the voice that came out of me didn’t even sound like my own. It was way too confident, for such a crazy situation.

“You want the same thing?”

His glistening Adam’s apple beckoned me, as he swallowed. “Yes.”

My eyes held him in a trance for a moment, and that’s all the consent it took. Carter swept me into his arms and pulled me back to his corner of the hot tub. I ended up in his lap, straddling a pair of very thick, muscular thighs as my arms went over his shoulders. Skin on skin, he discovered my secret in an instant.

“You’re naked,” he choked.

I chuckled in the least innocent way, and shrugged. “Guilty as charged.”

His eyes lit up like Christmas bulbs. The hands already around my waist gripped me a little tighter.

“Didn’t make sense, getting my underwear wet,” I explained feebly. “Not when there’s—”

His hot mouth cut me off, as he began kissing me hungrily. Never mind that I’d just been kissing his best friend and business partner. Never mind that two other men were watching. We made out like teenagers who’d broken free on prom night; and discovered the limousine to be empty. Only instead of a plush leather world of heated seats, our world was an anything goes free-for-all beneath the surging, roiling waters. A realm in which my own hands wandered every bit as much as his, and there were no rules, no limits, no boundaries.

At least, not for the duration of his ‘wish.’

I sighed as Carter’s mouth moved to my neck; kissing, nibbling, his lips trailing downward. He lifted me higher into his lap, and my breasts rose from the water. Like two new toys he was nuzzling them in an instant, burying his stubbled face against them, and kissing the water from my steaming areola. My hands went to the back of his head, my fingers sifting their way through his wet mess of hair. Over his shoulder, I sawSawyer gasp in indignation. I smiled and winked at him, while his friend continued to feast on me.

Eventually, my gaze shifted to Bodie and those incredible, ice blue eyes. The cool confidence with which he stared back at me was a serious turn on. He was so casual, so completely indifferent to the situation unfolding before him as he tilted his bottle back and sipped his beer. Yet beneath that indifference, I could sense an almost primal heat. An inner fire that burned for the same treatment his friends were getting, regardless of his expression.

“You want some too?” I teased, shocked at the words coming out of my mouth. My hands, fingers sifting, pulled Carter even more firmly against my breasts.

“Maybe,” Bodie allowed, with a casual shrug. “But I’m all out of wishes.”

My smile was impish. The tone of my voice, brimming with promise.

“I suppose I could make an exception,” I sighed, as if I were actually weighing a decision that hadn’t already been made. “After all, you were the one that beat me down the mountain. Seems only fair you get a shot.”

I swam to him, extracting myself from Carter’s still roving hands. Bodie regarded me curiously as I pressed my warm, naked body against his. When I brought my lips level with his own, his mouth curled into a smile.

“Do you wish you could kiss me?” I murmured, above the gurgling of the jets.

“Maybe,” he said again.