Seduce Me (The Heart Series)

by Angela Estienne

  “See you next week Jazz.” He put his money on the counter and left. Thank god he’s gone, but at the same time I was sad that he really had left. I was close to running after him.

  I put my fingers on my lips and started to feel them, they were still swollen from our kiss. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach that just wouldn’t leave me, I wanted to go home and cry. I was feeling so confused, my heart was doing overtime, I couldn’t think straight. The day passed so slow after that. He was all I could think about for the rest of the day. I could smell the sweet scent of Luke, and I loved it, I could still taste him, feel him, it was as if he was still standing in front of me, kissing me so passionately. He was going to drive me mad. I would have to find a way to get him out of my head.

  When I got home, I went straight up to my room and jumped on my bed, I cuddled onto my pillow so tight, I wanted Luke, but I shouldn’t, my emotions were in turmoil. I knew I should still be grieving for Greg, but I really wanted to give Luke a test drive. This was too confusing, so many mixed emotions spinning around in my mind. I heard a knock on my bedroom door. It had to be Dylan.

  “Jasmine, can I come in?” I wiped my tears away on the pillow.

  “Yes, come on in.” He entered and headed over to me. He sat on the bed and took my hand in his.

  “What is the matter? Why are you crying?”

  “I am so stupid.”

  “Why? Tell me so I can help fix it for you, please.”

  “Luke came back into the coffee shop today.”

  “Did he hurt you? I will kill him if he hurt you.” That was the first time I had ever seen or heard Dylan sound so protective over me, it actually made me feel safe and secure.

  “No, he didn’t hurt me but he kissed me.”

  “So what’s wrong with that?”

  “I liked it and I wanted more.”

  “That’s a good thing Jazz.”

  “No it’s not. I should still be grieving for Greg, not shoving my tongue down another man’s throat.”

  “Jasmine, this is what Greg wanted for you, to move on, remember what his note said to you. So I don’t want to hear no more of this silly talk, I want you to go to work and jump him, do you hear me Jasmine Williams?”

  “I hear you.”

  “Cat will be here on Saturday morning, so we have that to look forward to.”

  “Thanks Dylan.” He moved off the bed.

  “Are you coming down for some dinner? I will cook if you like.”

  “Oh no, shit.”

  “What’s up?”

  “I am supposed to be going out for a meal tonight. What time is it?”

  “7:10.”

  “I still have time to get ready. Why don’t you come with me, it would do you good to get out of this place for the night.”

  “You mean it?”

  “Yes, go and get ready.” I raced around like a mad man, trying to get ready in time. I made it downstairs. Dylan stood their looking so handsome.

  “Wow you scrub up nice, I am very impressed.”

  “Well thank you Jasmine, may I say that you are looking rather hot in that black dress, and look at you with your heels on.”

  “Right we need to ring for a taxi, I was going to go on the bike, but I can’t now.”

  “Why not?”

  “Because the pillion needs a helmet.” He walked away, so I picked my phone up to ring for the taxi. Dylan came running back into the front room with a helmet in his hand.

  “Is this what I need?” He had the biggest beaming smile across his face.

  “When did you get that?”

  “Today, I knew you would take me out for a ride if I got myself a helmet.”

  “Fine.” I ran back upstairs to grab some trousers to put under my dress. I could soon take them off when we arrived at the restaurant. I ran back downstairs. “Ok I am ready, let’s go.” I locked up the house and got the bike ready, I slung my handbag over my head to secure it in place, I tightened up the strap so it wouldn’t move as I was riding. I took my shoes off and gave them to Dylan.

  “What am I meant to do with these? They aren’t even my size.” He was laughing to himself.

  “Very funny Dylan, just hold onto them for me. I can’t do the gears in heels, but I can in bare feet.” He kicked his leg over the pillion seat, and leaned back against the sissy bar, he placed one of his hands around my waist. I turned her on, purring again, she sounded great. I gave her a few revs. The vibrations were strangely erotic, why on earth did I ever give this up?

  “Hold on tight Dylan.” I shouted. He tightened his grip on me. I slipped her out of neutral and straight into first, we were on our way. She was a dream to ride, as long as you planned your turns ahead of time, she didn’t like turning on a pin. She was slipping in and out of gears like an angel. I thought I might have some problems with being in bare feet, but I rode her perfectly, never missing a gear change. Although I think I got some funny looks from passer-by’s and other motorists, especially when I stopped at the traffic lights. I just waved at one couple and then they turned away fast. Dylan leaned into the corners with me, which made riding with a pillion a lot easier.

  We arrived at the restaurant with five minutes to spare. I quickly disembarked and got my bike locked up. I had a quick wiggle and managed to get my trousers off without lifting my dress up to far. I put them in one of the helmets and locked them both to the bike. Dylan passed me my heels and I put them on my feet. I straightened myself up, shoved a comb through my hair, and tied it up out of the way, I adjusted the strap on my bag again and hooked it onto my shoulder.

  We walked inside the restaurant. I could already see Rachel sat at the table. I approached one of the staff members and asked them to set an extra place for an unexpected guest. We walked over to Rachel. She stood up to greet us.

  “Hi Rachel, I am so glad you are here.” I kissed her on the cheek.

  “So who is this?” She raised her eyebrow and looked at Dylan.

  “Rachel I would like to introduce you to my ‘brother’ Dylan.”

  “Very nice to meet you Dylan, Jazz has told me all about you, I believe we are going on holiday together? Now come and sit next to me, we need to get to know each other better before the holiday starts. I sat on the other side of Dylan.

  Five minutes later Lee and Zale walked in, I stood up and waved them over to our table.

  “Dylan, can I introduce you to Zale and his partner Lee.” Dylan was very charming. He shook their hands and took a seat. We had just ordered our starters when my phone started bleeping. I reached down for my handbag, a text message from the mystery number, I was sure this would prove interesting, so I opened it up.

  “You looked amazing pulling up on your new motorbike, my sexy hot biker chick, but who is that guy sat next to you? I am a very jealous man, I am not into sharing.”

  I looked around, but I didn’t recognise anyone, whoever it was texting me was here in the restaurant, watching me. Dylan turned around to me.

  “What’s up sis?”

  “Nothing, don’t worry.”

  “Come on, tell me. I know you. You have something on your mind, I can see it in your eyes, you could never lie to me, I know you too well.” I showed him the text “So who is it from?”

  “I have absolutely no idea.”

  “Well let’s have a bit of fun with him then shall we?”

  “What do you mean?” He put his arm around my shoulder, leaned in and kissed me on the cheek. My phone started bleeping again, I didn’t know whether I wanted to look at it or not, I took in a lung full of air and I opened it up.

  “Seriously, that’s not a kiss. Would you like me to show you how it is done?”

  I showed it to Dylan and started looking around again. I still didn’t know anyone, I couldn’t take it, I had to text back. This was getting annoying and slightly scary.

  “Either, tell me who you are or stop texting me.”

  There that should do it.

  “You will find out, don’
t be impatient. All in good time Jasmine, xxx.”

  That pulled my last straw. I had to get out of here for a bit, I needed a quiet place to gather my thoughts.

  “Excuse me I have to go to the ladies room.” As I got up I noticed Zale and Rachel heading off outside together. I had got so distracted with the text I had missed them leaving the table. I got up and headed straight to the little girls room. I went to the toilet. When I came out I filled the sink with water and splashed it lightly onto my face. As I dried myself off I took in some very deep cleansing breaths, I was feeling a lot better for that, I turned around, I couldn’t believe my eyes.

  Chapter 14

  Mr blue eyes was there staring at me with the ladies room door shut firmly behind him.

  “What the hell are you doing here Luke? Are you following me around?”

  “I could ask you the exact same question?”

  “What do you mean? I am trying to have a quiet meal with some friends. So what are you doing here?”

  “I own the place Jazz relax. Now come here, and let me show you what a proper kiss is like.” Dawn of realisation finally hit my sometimes-blonde mind.

  “It was you texting me?”

  “Yes.”

  “And the last time, that was you as well?”

  “Off course it was me, who else?” I sighed with relief. Well at least I knew who the phone number belonged to now.

  He advanced towards me, backing me up into the sink unit.

  “I’ve been thinking of our unfinished kiss all afternoon.” Closing my eyes, I took in a long deep breath. Not wanting to admit, I had thought of nothing else either. He looked so hot in his black casual trousers and tight black short sleeved v neck t-shirt, he looked stunning, his biceps bulging out from the sleeves of his top. I had a perfect view of his abs from underneath his t-shirt. This was so unfair. I had no defence against this man.

  Looking up directly into his eyes. I licked my dry lips as he traced his finger around, he growled at me as I caught his finger in my mouth and gave it an erotic suck, then I moved my tongue gently around it.

  “Ah, Jasmine.” He put the palm of his hand at the back of my neck and pulled me in for a kiss. Placing his soft tender lips on mine, our third kiss had started. I couldn’t help surrendering to his demands. I had a single tear run down my face as I shoved my hands into his perfect silky hair. My heart was racing. This was just too perfect. He lifted my dress at one side and ran his warm hand up the outside of my leg. He deepened the kiss further, leaving me to groan in to his exquisite mouth. This was hot and arousing. He lifted my right leg up against his hip. I placed one hand on his bum and one on his back, our tongues danced around and around, tantalizing and teasing each other’s mouth. I could feel his erection pressing hard into my body. He was feeling as needy as I was, he aroused me far too much, waking up all my dormant senses. Now I was in deep trouble, reaching a point of no return, I had no way of stopping him even if I wanted to, which luckily at this moment in time I didn’t, I was desperate for the full Luke experience.

  Lifting me up onto the sink unit, I hitched my dress up to my waist. I wrapped my legs around his hips, encouraging him into my personal space. He started kissing my chest and my neck.

  “Oh my god, Luke.” Leaning back, I pushed my now aching breasts out to him. Grabbing them with his hands, he started gently plumping them. Knock, knock, oh crap, I nearly cried.

  “Jasmine are you all right in there?” No! I had totally forgotten about the meal, I tried to catch my breath before answering.

  “I will be out in a minute Rachel.” I looked into Luke’s eyes. He ran his index finger down my nose, down to my lips and stopped at my chin. He ran the pad of his thumb around my dry lips, as he was doing it, I licked his thumb with my tongue.

  “Come back home with me tonight Jasmine.” I looked away from his hypnotic gaze. Then he moved his arms around my back.

  “I can’t, I need to go Luke.” Now I felt the sorrow burning away deep within me. He moved my head back to look at him.

  “You can if you want to.” God this was hard.

  “Don’t do this to me, please stop it.”

  “Stop what?”

  “All of this, I can’t defend myself against you.”

  “That’s a good thing.”

  “No it isn’t Luke, I don’t even know you.” I don’t know you but I have this burning desire to be with you. Shh.” My breasts now tender, my skin was sensitive and highly charged. The aching between my legs was becoming unbearable.

  “Well let me join you for your meal, it is a perfect way to start to get to know me?”

  “No, I don’t want to get to know you, leave me alone, please.”

  “Well unless you agree to let me have a meal with you, I won’t let you out of these toilets.”

  “You can’t do that, let me go.” I tried to get down, but he just kept stopping me.

  “Let me join you, it’s only a meal. It’s not like we are walking down the aisle together.” I sighed.

  “Yes all right.” He carefully lifted me down from the sink. I straightened myself up. Now this was going to be torture sitting down with Luke for a meal, he slotted his hand in mine, interlocking his fingers with my own.

  “You look beautiful Jasmine.” He leaned into me and kissed me on the lips.

  Unlocking the door, we headed out and walked over to our table. Jasmine, just breathe, it is only a meal, you can get through this.

  “Luke may I introduce my ‘brother’ Dylan.” I saw a half-cocked smile appear on his face, his grip on my hand loosened off slightly.

  “This is Zale who I work with at my morning job and his partner Lee, and you already know Rachel. Luke made eye contact with a waiter, with a flick of his wrist the waiters came over and set an extra place at our table. He sat on my left and Dylan was on my right. Rachel looked over. She mouthed the words.

  “Are you all right?” I nodded my head, indicating that I was fine. I actually felt sick to the stomach again. Now I was even more confused. I had this gorgeous sexy man sat on my left, he made me hot and to my surprise he made me feel safe and secure, but then I still had my unresolved issues with Greg’s death and the love I still felt for him. I wasn’t sure how to solve my problem. Our starters turned up, I was glad I had gone for something small. I don’t think I could have faced a massive amount of food now.

  After our starters Luke put his hand on my knee, he was hitching my dress up with his fingertips. An inch at a time my dress was getting higher and higher until he reached the bare skin of my knee, I quivered under his delicate touch. He was able to hold a conversation with everyone while he was working my dress up. How could he do that? So cool and composed. My heart was beating like a drum, I was sure my cheeks were flushed. I was thankful when our main course turned up, Luke moved his hand off my knee and my dress slipped back down my leg. I could breathe normally again and calm my body down. The conversation flowed freely. Dylan and Rachel seemed to be hitting it off, he had turned his personality onto full charm mode and Rachel was lapping it up. Lee & Zale were happy which left me and Luke.

  Luke was proficient at working the table to his advantage. He had conversation topics for everyone. No one was left out. After our main course, Luke casually moved his hand back on my leg and started lifting my dress up again. The tingly sensations were erupting once more. I was looking forward to my dessert. My body was begging for a rest from the constant onslaught of Luke’s wandering hands.

  I would definitely need to service myself tonight after all that was happening to my body. Dessert turned up and I ate the lot. I always left enough room for pudding, it was almost the best bit of any meal. We ordered our coffee then Rachel and I excused ourselves to go to the ladies room. As we were walking Rachel turned around to look at Dylan, I had to turn around to take a look for myself. Dylan had a beaming smile across his face. Then I looked at Luke, his eyes were on fire, you could almost see the lust burning away in his eyes, he didn’t take his eyes o
ff me, we turned around and started walking again.

  “Jasmine, what the heck is going on? Why is Luke here?”

  “He owns this joint.”

  “Never?”

  “Yeah I was as shocked as you when he told me.”

  “He really does have a thing for you, his eyes burn with desire when he looks at you.”

  “I can’t say I have noticed.” I started smiling.

  “So what were you two doing in here all that time?”

  “Talking.”

  “No way sister. You were never talking for that length of time. I was getting worried about you. I thought you may have fallen down the loo or something.” There was that very cheeky smile of hers putting in another appearance.

  “We were just talking.” My cheeks flushed, my body gave me away again.

  “Did you make out?”

  “We didn’t get that far, you knocked on the door just as things were getting interesting.”

  “Oh I am sorry Jazz, I didn’t mean to interrupt your ‘talking session.’”

  “That’s all right. You probably stopped me from making a big mistake.” I reached over and hugged her.

  “So how about you and Dylan then?”

  “He is ace. He has got such a good sense of humour. I am getting on really well with him.” She started blushing.

  “You, I know that look, you want him don’t you?”

  “Yes, I know, I know, I don’t know him but he is cute, funny, charming—.” I had to interrupt her.

  “I get the picture, please stop.” We burst out laughing.

  “So what are you going to do about it?”

  “I am not sure. I hope Dylan feels the same way.”