by Lucia Jordan
When I’m so madly in love with you, Megan added silently, but couldn’t say anything in reply. She simply looked at him, suddenly noticing the drawn edge to his face. Was it possible that her actions had hurt him or caused him some kind of emotional strain? Was there a chance he cared and was that the reason he’d taken all this trouble to find her?
At last, he expelled a hard breath, facing her again. “I apologize. I didn’t know I gave the impression that all I really wanted from you was your body. I’ll admit it may have started out that way. But then it all switched up on me. It didn’t take a few hours with you in New York for me to decide you were different, special. When you decided to cut me out of your life, I was worried that I’d frightened you away with my…sexual demands. I knew all that stuff was new to you and you impressed me the way you so genuinely got into it. If there was a chance I was too rough with you, especially that last night…”
“No, it wasn’t that at all,” Megan said quickly, her hand closing over his on the table without thinking. When he stiffened in surprise beneath her touch, she drew her hand away with a blush.
“You’re wrong to think it had anything to do with what we shared as lovers,” she added. “It was my choice; I told you I could handle it and you didn’t do anything that would make me have anything against you. I mean I could have used the safeword anytime I needed if it got too much. So no, it wasn’t the sex.”
“So what was it, Megan?” he asked softly, and suddenly he looked hurt, and for a moment, the most vulnerable she’d ever seen him. “I’m sexually dominant by nature. I won’t deny that fact and my past lovers were always made to understand this coming into the relationship. Normally it’s not a problem for me finding a woman ready to “sub” for me, women who are already involved in the lifestyle. Most times, these women come to me asking me to be their dom. I guess I’ve never had to do much chasing Megan and maybe that’s turned me into too much of an arrogant jerk.”
“Look…”
“No, you look,” he said, taking her hand firmly in his. “”I’m still not sure exactly why you did what you did, but I’m beginning to understand a little of it. I came across all wrong with my attitude of “no strings” as if nothing we shared really mattered. Because it did, every minute. Even when I was…propositioning you, I already knew you were a woman who could make an impact where it mattered. And I wanted to explore that. Why do you think I suggested you left my company? I didn’t want anything standing between the chance for us to be together. If I wanted something casual, I’d have just continued with things as they were. I totally wanted to be with you for real and now I feel like kicking myself for making you believe any differently.”
Megan’s eyes fell, as she inwardly felt her heart flutter with hope. She stared down at his hand covering hers, the dark hairs coating his tanned skin finely. A shiver of awareness she was so sure had gone for good sizzled deep within her core. Just like the first time.
“I still don’t know what you want,” she said, finally looking up at him, her expression guarded.
He threw his arms open expansively. “A fresh start. You and me. Starting now, sharing coffee, having a talk. And hopefully, continuing with getting to know each other better. And if either of us decides to let it get deeper, then those options will be kept open, too.”
His grin suddenly flashed in a devilish glint of white that rocked her universe. How could she resist him when he smiled like that, which made him look younger, even boyish? A playful Heath Mayer was the most freakish panty-dropper ever. She just wanted to grab his hand, take him to some dark back alley and…
She wasn’t sure what he saw in her eyes, but the twinkle in his eyes deepened warmly.
“So, Miss Kerry, what do you think?”
“I think…I think I like your proposition, Mr. Mayer,” she said softly, returning his humorous smile. “And, considering our past liaisons, I’m ah… beginning to wonder if we shouldn’t skip right from sharing coffee and straight to the getting deeper part.”
The twinkle in his eye fired up into an outright flare. A resulting rush of heat turned the apex of her thighs almost liquid. Megan squeezed her knees tightly together.
“That sounds like a plan,” Heath said, his voice taking on a definite rasp.
Megan smiled sultrily. “Then I think it’s time you take me home.”
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Table of Contents
Copyright
Bound Series
Book 1: Bounds Of Passion
Book 2: Bound Together
Book 3: Bound To Fall
Book 4: Bound Forever
Sexed Up, Tied Down Series
Book 1: Rescued By The Billionaire
Book 2: Hailey Learns To Submit
Book 3: Hailey Is Taken By The Brothers
Book 4: Hailey’s Ménage a Trois
Spectacular Stranger Series
Book 1: Spectacular Stranger I
Book 2: Spectacular Stranger II
Book 3: Spectacular Stranger III
Book 4: Spectacular Stranger IV
The Proposition Series
Book 1: The Proposition
Book 2: Illicit Proposition
Book 3: NoStrings Proposition
Book 4: Eternal Proposition