She looked backat him, a tender vulnerabilityin her eyes that tore at his heart. “Really?” she whispered hopefully.
He shifted slightly, nudging her thighs gently apart so that he could press the hard evidence of hisarousalagainst her inner thigh. Her eyes widened in surprise as passion bloomed within their depths. “This is what you do to me,” he grated hoarsely. “No one has ever affected me like this Isabelle, no one. I sure as hell have never put up with as much aggravation with anyone else as I have with you.”
She smiled softly, her eyes twinkling with amusement as the fear slowly left them. “You’re no barrel of laughs you know.”
He cocked aneyebrow as he smiled playfully back at her. “And why is that?”
“Well, you’re arrogant, inconsiderate, bossy, demanding and more than a little temperamental.”
Stefan’seyebrows rose as he shifted slightly to press the hard tip of his head against her wet, inviting folds. Isabelle gasped as she bit into her bottom lip, her eyes cloudedwith passion. “You flatter me, but you do realize that you have just described yourself.”
“I am not inconsiderate!” she cried indignantly.
He smiled softly as he slid his head slowly into her. She drew her legs up, bracing them against his hard, slick sides as she opened herself further to his invasion. “But you admit to being the other things?”
Her eyes twinkled merrily as she wrapped her arms around his neck to lightly play with the hair curling along his nape. He shuddered as he fought the urge to plunge into her, but he was enjoying teasing her and watching the variety of emotions that crossed her face. “Sometimes,” she said softly. “But at least I don’t rip doors out of the wall.”
He laughed softly as he bent to nibble on her lip. “No, you just cause me to do it.”
She grinned up at him. “That was your temper that caused you to do that.”
“Trustme;no one can provoke my temper like you.”
“I know the feeling,” she gasped as he drove all the way into her.
CHAPTER 17
“Isabelle!” Isabelle groaned as she buried herself deeper into her pillows. “Isabelle!”
“Go away Willow!” she shouted.
“Isabelle get up!” She lifted her head slowly as she realized that Stefan was no longer in bed with her. Her brow furrowed as she wondered where he had gone, and when. “Isabelle!” she yelled impatiently.
“What?” she snapped.
“I can’t find Cassidy and Kyle!”Willow cried.
“Get Ethan!”
“Everybody went to get more supplies for the new house, and they’ve been missing for almost an hour!”
She groaned again as she thrust the tangled sheet off of her. An hour was a long time for the two of them to be gone. Too long. “Hold on!”
She dressed quickly, wondering if Stefan had gone with everyone for supplies, or if he was around here somewhere. Brushing out her hair she pulled it into a loose ponytail and opened the door. Willow’s pretty face was stressed with worry as her dark violet eyes nervously scanned Isabelle. “I don’t know where they went,” she said anxiously.
“We’ll find them,” Isabelle assured her. Willow nodded briskly, shaking her dark blond hair lose from her ponytail. “Come on.”
Willow followed her up the stairs, through the living room, and outside. Isabelle paused on the porch, her gaze instantly darting to the new house. They had made a lot of progress on it in the past few days, progress that she hadn’t even noticed until now. The outside walls had been assembled, the porch was built, the large oak door was in place, and most of the windows were in. A tingle of excitement raced through her as she realized that the house would be done soon. She smiled softly, thinking about all the privacy she would have with Stefan there.
“He went with the others,” Vicky said.
Isabelle tore her gaze away from the house as Vicky and Abby stepped onto the porch, grinning at her. Willow sighed impatiently as Isabelle took a deep breath and hopped quickly down the steps. “Where was the last place you saw them?”
“I left them at the tree house,” Willow answered.
Isabelle nodded as she moved toward the path to the tree house. “You must be happy that Stefan came back,” Vicky said slyly.
Isabelle cast a glance over her shoulder to find thetwinsgrinning knowingly at her. She couldn’t stop herself from smiling back at them. “Jess is going to freak when she finds out that he came back,” Abby said.
