"You could ask me as well, though something tells me a man l

re raging below his belt. "What if I said there's some

h and the heat coming off her skin. She began a slow, rhythmic caress over the exposed valley of her chest, her fingers trac

out into the cool night air and find the nearest flat surface. He wanted to taste the ar

roductions?" he suggested, trying

ch, melodic sound

ohn, you Jane," he joked, waving a hand between them. "Be

ing their slow, torturous tour of her collarbone.

was trying to be a gentleman; the other half

circling the ice like a countdown. "Who needs names in this day and age? Don't you think there's something to be said for a li

man with the pedigree of a queen and a 'fuck-and-leave' policy that matched his own. He usually avoided relationships like the plague;

case of his dad, got ripped

s drink, drowning the unwelcome mem

was non-existent. She brought the olive to her lower lip, her cleavage a devastating

d, as she closed her lips around the stick and pulled it o

now," Alexander rasped. Hi

with the urge to touch her. "Three? Really?" She smiled, dropping t

worth observing, I

I am then? Wor

he prided himself on finally snapping like a dry twig. "In fact, if

led on her lip-an innocent gesture that wa

He stood up abruptly, the mov

hand, and tugged her to her feet with a firm, uncompromising strength. She didn't resist, much to his

it of my decency," he growled, his f

her lips with a rough, desperate hunger, his tongue seeking hers with a wi

vibrated against his chest, Alexander felt the last of his restraint dissolve. He lost himself in the invasion, his tongue tangling with hers in a desperate, probing dance. The world outs

wood on marble behind him. "Excuse me," a voi

? He didn't know, and frankly, he didn't care about the witness-but he cared about the interruption. Reality came crashing back

he tried to create an inch of distance, Isabella's teeth nipped playfull

er pout so devastatingly beau

ing the curve of her bone, while he used the other to rub his face, trying to summon a shred of the composure that had completely abandoned him. He should have been unnerved by ho