Candace gasped and swatted his arm, trying to grab the phone from him.“You wouldn’t.”
“Oh, baby, you know I would.”Damn, this was fun, and he was glad the mood had lightened between them.
“Ryan...”
He stopped recording and turned to capture her chin in his hand, leaning down to smother her protests with a smacking kiss.“I love it when you say my name like that, all stern and bossy.”
She swatted his arm.“Behave.”But he caught the flash of hurt in her eyes when she turned away to talk to Erin.
He smothered a disappointed sigh.Okay, he was definitely not off the hook then.
Looked like they were going to have to hash things out after all.
Instead of being impatient to get her alone in their room again, he suddenly found himself hoping this dinner would go on all night.
FOUR
“You look incredibly hot in a cowboy hat.”Candace looped her arms around Ryan’s neck and lifted up onto her toes to drop a light kiss on his mouth.
“Yeah?”That spark in her eyes had him imagining him on top of her, wearing nothing but the hat.
“Mm-hmm.And your beard makes you look the part even more.”
She liked it when he grew a beard, which was pretty often for his job.And he loved rubbing it all over her bare skin.
Grasping her hips, he pulled her into his body.“Hmm, maybe I should skip the hunting trip and stay here with you instead.”Things seemed better between them today, which was a relief.He’d expected her to say the dreaded words “we need to talk” as soon as they’d come back to the room late last night, but she hadn’t.
Maybe it was the champagne, but she’d curled into him when he’d pulled her onto the bed and taken everything off her but those sexy red heels.She’d been anything but cool with him after that.Afterward, holding her in the darkness as they drifted off to sleep, he hadn’t brought up the issue, because hey, he wasn’t stupid.
She laughed, the husky sound going straight to his groin.“You’d rather get a facial and pedicure?”
“I’d rather tie you to the bed again and make you come over and over.”
She raised an eyebrow.“Like you’ve been sex-deprived since you got here.”
He shrugged.“I just can’t get enough of you.”His sincerity must have registered with her because the look in her deep brown eyes softened.
