There was so much heat, flames licking right beneath her skin.Was it possible to burst into flames?He folded his hands around her breasts, and she snaked her arms around his neck, pulling him closer to her.
Far away, cars were honking, people were laughing, but here within this cocoon where she and David were floating, nothing else could intrude, nothing else mattered.
And then he stepped between her legs, slid his hands beneath her T-shirt, just like in her dream, and explored her flesh, lighting small fires just below the surface of her skin wherever he touched her.
Any minute now he’d be touching her breast.
She strained upward, wantonly moving her body closer to his.
His phone rang, a car backfired and, cursing, David lifted his head.
Dana stared helplessly up at him.For the life of her, she couldn’t remember why she’d been so angry with him, why she’d wanted to get away from him so urgently, why she hadn’t wanted to be near him.
He looked down at his phone but didn’t answer it.Instead, he switched it off and put it back in his pocket.He put his hands back on her shoulders, but reality came crashing down.
Dana ducked underneath his arm and slid into her car.She quickly closed the door and rolled down the window.
“Thank you for… everything.”
“Everything?”he teased and leaned forward on the car with his arms.
“This”—she motioned her hand between them—“is ridiculous.You know it.I know it.”
“I’ll call you about the weekend.”
She shook her head.“Not a good idea…”
“There’s something I want to tell you about your father.”
Irritated, she stared at him.She didn’t want to see him again, but she wanted to hear what he had to say, and he knew it, damn it.
He lifted his hand and touched her face.“And we also have to talk about this thing between us.”
“There is no thing…” she started heatedly, but he leaned in and kissed her.
A gasp escaped her lips before she could stop it.
He lifted his head, his eyes mere slits.“Really?Because your body says something entirely different.”He lightly touched one of the protruding nipples straining against her T-shirt.
She inhaled sharply.“I—I… y-you…” she stuttered, unable to form a coherent sentence.
“I’ll phone you.”He stepped back.
Dana turned the key, praying fervently that her car would play along today.
It sputtered and made a few strange noises, but it started up eventually.Without looking at David again, she reversed and sped away.The man was making her behave in ways she’d never thought possible.Groaning out loud, she turned onto the national road that would take her all the way to Hermanus.
Christmas was a few weeks away, and the roads were busy.Holidaymakers were streaming down to visit all the seaside places for the summer holidays.She had to focus on the traffic.She couldn’t be thinking about David’s kisses, David’s hands on her body.
The bloody man was too attractive for his own good.As one of the billionaire hotel tycoon brothers, he could have his pick of any beautiful woman out there.Why was he so intent on toying with her?
Because there was no way he could be seriously interested in her.She was an absolute nobody.
Okay, maybe he did know something about her dad that might help her investigation into the whole sorry mess.She’d listen to what he had to say about her father, but that was it.Whatever else he wanted, he’d have to find somewhere else.
Her body hadn’t yet settled down after David’s kisses and touch, but that she would have to ignore.How difficult could that be?She wasn’t a schoolgirl anymore, damn it!
Chapter Five
