And she was unraveling him.
“I was such a bitch to you it made you be mean to me and I’mnot sure that’s you so I wanted to do something that would make you think Iwasn’t a bitch and—”
“Baby, come inside with me so we can talk.”
“—you thought I was there to get a story and—”
“Please, Georgie.”
“—I’ve got some stuff.I talked to my source at the DPD andhe’s getting me more and I’ll deal with that and—”
“Christ, Georgie,please.”
“—I’ll give it to Carolyn when I get it and she can give itto you and then I’m out and you never have to see me again.”
He told her what she needed to know.“I’m not holding thisdoor shut, darlin’, because I don’t everwannaseeyou again.”
She just stared up at him.
“Come on, take off that hat, your jacket, I’ll get us a beerand we’ll work this out.”
“Insult to injury, I’ve been reduced to saying words like ‘madeyou be mean to me,’ like I’m seven years old.”
Dutch engaged his other hand to put gentle pressure on herhip to try to turn her from the door, urging again, “Come on.”
“And just so we’re clear, I wasn’t only doing it so youwouldn’t think I was a bitch, because that makes it about me.I was also doingit because I want Carlyle to go to MIT.”
Words weren’t working.His hands on the door and her hipweren’t working.
It was time to take a different tack.
And the one he chose was bending his head and kissing her.
She jerked away, shifting fast, and slammed a shoulder intothe door.
“Sorry, baby, but you wouldn’t shut up and you wouldn’t comeinto myhou—”
He didn’t finish that.
Because she was on him.
Clutching the sides of his head in both hands, she pulledhis mouth to hers, curved her back so her soft body was pressed to his, andthat was all Dutch needed.
He moved into her.One hand up under her hair then buried inthat soft mane, his other arm curled tight around her waist pulling her closer,he pinned her against the door just as she parted her lips to invite himinside.
He accepted the invitation.
She wrapped her arms around his neck and shoved her bodyfurther into his.
She smelled of cherries and almonds, her mouth was hot andsweet and greedy, and when she quit trying to duel with his tongue to take overthe kiss, her capitulation was sucking it deeper into her mouth.
The result, his cock, already stiffening, got rock-hard.
Fact: Georgiana Traylor could kiss.
And she had the sweetest draw he’d ever felt.
He wanted that on his tongue, and elsewhere.
