“Good?”Rob chuckled though she was sure he knew exactly how it felt.
“As if you have to ask,” she mumbled as her eyes fell closed.He continued massaging her muscle around where the pin sat and up along where her socket had rested all day.
“You are officially hired as my masseuse.”
“Don’t threaten me with a good time,” he mumbled softly.So softly, she almost hadn’t heard it.
June cracked her eyes open, wanting to see if he was being serious or not.He’d stopped massaging her thigh and was staring at her.She could see heat radiating in his gaze.A look that mirrored her own.One she normally kept hidden from him because she didn’t think the feeling was reciprocated.It was now.His hands flexed against her thigh.His body was tight, like a coiled tiger about to strike.
Suddenly, the look was gone, and he retracted his hands.“I’m sorry,” he said, looking away from her.
Words no woman wanted to hear when moments before, the man of her dreams had been looking at her like that and touching her.“Why?”Why had he said that?Because they were friends?Why?
“I shouldn’t have touched you like that.”He almost looked ashamed that he had.
“Because we’re friends?”She was having trouble understanding.Friendships could change and grow.He had seemed to want to touch her.The massage hadn’t been sexual, but the look in his eyes had hinted at it.He was now giving her mixed signals.
“Because of Jack,” he remarked, finally looking her in the eye.
June blinked at the statement, trying to understand what he was saying.His friend Jack?“What about him?”What did Jack have to do with Rob touching her?Maybe contemplating doing more, at least she hoped.
“Aren’t you interested in Jack?”His head cocked to the side; his eyes were dazed with a look of bewilderment on his face.
“Not as anything more than a friend.He’s nice and all, but I’m not interested in him for more than friendship.”Not like her and Rob could be.Like she hoped they would be.“No offense, he’s a bit of a playboy.”June was interested in a relationship, not scratching an itch.
Rob’s shoulders drooped as if they had carried a large weight that was suddenly gone.“Good.”
That was good?“Why is that?”she asked breathlessly, scarcely able to breathe in fear of wanting.She didn’t move as Rob leaned forward, their faces only a hairsbreadth apart.Surely this wasn’t real.She had closed her eyes and accidentally fallen asleep from his ministrations, and now she was dreaming of Rob about to kiss her.
His hot breath fanned her face, smelling of Italian seasoning and all male.“Because this would have been awkward,” he said before lowering his head and kissing her.It was not a tentative, exploring kiss, but a no holds barred, take no prisoners kiss.As if he meant to possess her.
So many emotions flitted through June’s head, it almost made her as dizzy as Rob’s kiss was.Happiness, trepidation, fear, confusion—they swirled through her mind like a tornado.
Rob’s tongue thrust between her lips, dueling with her own, and she forgot everything including her own name.
She would question why things had changed later.Right now, she was going to savor her dream coming true.
June groaned against his mouth as her hands skated through his hair and pulled him close while he kept control of the kiss.She didn’t mind him in control.June was far from experienced in any of this.She’d learn from him.
Rob suddenly pulled back as quickly as he’d swooped in and rested his head against hers.They were both panting heavily.She kept her grip on his head, and her eyes remained closed.“I swear to god, if you apologize, I’m going to beat you with my leg,” she warned.
Rob chuckled at her not so idle threat.“I’m not going to apologize.”
“Are you going to stop?”That would get him a beating as well.
Rob shook his head.“Not unless you say to.”
Not a chance in hell.June lifted her face and sealed her lips over his, becoming the aggressor.She didn’t have much experience in this, but Rob didn’t seem to complain.His hands were back on her thighs, tightening and flexing against her, but not painfully.
She wanted him to touch her all over.She wanted to feel him skin to skin, but there was something she had to do before things went too far.
It was her turn to pull back.
“What is it?”Rob asked, sounding breathless.She was glad he was just as affected as she was.“Too fast?”
“No, but before we go too far, I wanted to warn you about something.”
She felt him tense under her hands.“What’s that?”
