Business Temptations – Excerpt

“You okay?” his deep, husky voice came through the darkness.

Bailey wasn’t sure.  She was lying on top of him and he felt so incredibly good! 

“Yeah,” she replied.  “I should–”

She stopped when his strong, warm hand slid up the bare skin of her back. 

“You feel good,” he told her, his legs shifting. 

Bailey gasped as his hands moved again.  The electric shock of his hands on her bare skin was…amazingly good!  So good, she couldn’t control the gasp, or the moan as his hands roamed higher. 

“You don’t like that?” he asked. 

She closed her eyes, trying very hard not to let him know how much she enjoyed him touching her like that. 

“It’s…different,” she whispered into the darkness. 

“I want you, Bailey,” he told her.  “Can you tell?”

He didn’t shift his hips, but she felt the throb of his erection against her stomach. 

“But we’re friends,” she argued, then moaned when he moved his legs, her hips now cradling his erection against her core. 

“I think we could be friends,” he sat up just enough to kiss her gently, pulling away after too short of a taste, “and lovers.”

She licked her lips, staring down at him.  Goodness, she wanted that!  The thought of becoming his lover was so tempting.  “Can we really do that?”

“Yes,” he promised.  “We can do anything we set our minds to.”

“But…what if we can’t make it work as friends and lovers?”

“We can,” he assured her softly, his hands still trailing along her skin.  “But if you don’t want to risk it, just say the word, and I’ll get up and go back to my own place.  You can sleep alone and we’ll never speak of it ever again.”  He moved, then kissed her again. “But if you’ve ever been curious to find out what it would be like between us, then why not explore this?”

She moaned and kissed him back.  It was just a brief kiss.  A barely-there kiss.  When he pulled back Bailey stared down at him, shocked at how good it felt to be held like this.  “Because I’m scared of losing you as a friend,” she admitted honestly.