page48 (2/2)

Pia threw herself at Raphael, glad that they were finally on the sah I don’t think we should sleep with each other again too soon”

He looked thunderous “What kind of a condition is that?”

“I go into this dreaically eis…you have too much power in this relationship if we have sex”

A hard, harsh laugh fell from his mouth “You think you don’t have any?”

A vein pounded in his te in her chest, she wrapped her arms around his waist, ran her hands over his muscled back and down How she loved the way he felt in her hands When she slipped her hands lower to his buttocks and tugged, his arousal grazed her belly “Do you think I do?”

Jaw tight, heat scouring those sharp cheekbones, he raised a brow

“See, I didn’t even know I had it” When he’d have slammed her body into his to cradle his arousal, Pia pushed back at his shoulders “No, let me touch you as I please”

“You’re playing a dangerous game, cara mia It’s been teeks and I know if I touch you, you’ll be wet for me”

Pia blushed, the daant confidence “Yes, well, we already agreed that you can melt me like an ice cream on a summer day with one look, si?” She ran her hands up his back and sank them under his collar

She petted hirohen she rubbed herself against him On purpose Heat blazed in his eyes

She was playing a dangerous game, and yet she’d never felt more alive “Stay still for me, won’t you, Raphael?”

His explicit Italian—about what he’d like to do to her instead—sent heat pooling in her lower belly

Sinking her fingers into his hair, Pia kissed the corner of his ainst her lips was heavenly as she peppered that arrogant jaith soft kisses “I don’t even knohat I like and don’t like yet”

“Let ive you the different options, bella You love experiments, don’t you?”

Laughter bubbled up her throat even as she nibbled on his lips as if he were her favorite treat He tasted of wine and ht to her head And her buckling knees

When she traced that lower lip of his that drove her wild, he sucked the tip into his mouth and released it with a pop A whiainst her bra On the next breath, his fingers crawled into her hair, held her tight, and he took over the kiss Hard and de to her toes, angling her ot