Suddenly, I feel like a damn lion uncaged for the first time in years.
I didn’t realize how much I’ve been missing her until now, until I feel and hear the undeniable carnality in each moment of the kiss.
The only thing that stops us is the voice of the guide, getting louder, and his footsteps making scuffing noises on the rocky surface of the cave floor.
She angles her face backward, pupils diluted as if she’s as drunk on me as I am on her.
“We can’t,” she whispers. “I don’t want everybody thinking I’m screwing the fricking CEO.”
I hold her just for a second longer, but then – having to force myself to let her go – I step away. My chest heaves like there’s a kiln in there, roasting me from the inside.
“Hello?” Graham yells.
I turn to find the short, stocky man poking his head around the edge of the cave. He glances between me and Grace, his small mouth hanging open for a moment. But then he sees me glaring at him, as if to say,None of your damn business, mate. He closes his mouth and nods back the way we came.
“We’re not supposed to be down here, guys,” he says. “Would you mind coming this way?”
“Sure,” I grunt. “After you.”
He nods shortly and turns away.
“That was rude,” Grace chides, poking me sportively in the side.
“I couldn’t stand the idea of anybody else seeing this,” I rumble.
“Seeing what—”
I turn, kissing her again, unwilling to fight this anymore.
She whimpers and then smooths her hand up around my shoulders, clutching the back of my neck like she never wants to let me go.
“No, Harry,” she sighs after what feels like a decade. “Not … here.”
Not here.
Does that mean it could happen, really fucking happen, somewhere else?
I step back and wave a hand for her, bowing sarcastically. “Of course, m’lady,” I say. “After you.”
“Such adick,” she giggles, shoving me as she walks by, into the deeper darkness of the cave.
I watch her go, my pulse shimmering in jolts of fascination in my throat.
Kissing her was part of the plan … eventually.
But not like this.
I was supposed to feel like the one in control.
But now I feel just as lost as I did when we were kids, and the world seemed so much simpler.
Fuck.
