leaving.” She brushed her wet hair from her face as she stormed toward the front door. “What? That’s crazy!” He grabbed her arm and spun her around. “You can’t leave.” She snatched back her arm. “Watch me.” Turning, she jerked open the front door.
Lightning flashed and lit up the night sky. However, it didn’t step Josie from bolting out into the rain. In an instant, her clothes were plastered to her skin. The cold wind chilled her to the bone but did little to cool her anger.
“Josie, stop being ridiculous! You don’t have anywhere to go!” He spun her around again and was startled when her open hand struck his face. “I didn’t ask for your help. I can take care of myself!” “You’re not in any type of condition…” “No.” She backed away from him. “You do what you have to do, and I’ll do the same.” “You’re talking crazy!”
“I’m
“Fine. You’re sane. Screaming out in the middle of storm is perfectly normal.
“Just go to hell.” She turned and stalked off.
With his own anger mounting, William grasped her arm, but this time he was prepared when she attacked. Dodging a blow, he quickly seized her hands and pinned them to her sides. “I’m trying to help you.”
“I don’t want it.” Josie struggled to wrench her hands free. “Since I nearly got you killed, you should be happy to get me out of your life.”
“I never said that.”
“You didn’t have to,” she shouted above the loud wind. “It’s painfully obvious. Dump me at the police station and let me be
William’s curt reply further aggravated her. Here was someone else who was trying to control her life, and she was going to have none of it. At last, she freed her arms and swung in every direction. “Josie, stop it.” He set her back on her feet and struggled to pin her arms down again. “It’s my life. I can make my own decision,” she screamed repeatedly. Another blow landed across his left cheek, but he shook away the stars and locked her arms down at her sides. “It’s my life,” she wailed. “I know,” he whispered close to her ear. “I know.”
The fight left her body, and she slumped against him. Together, they sank to the floor, where her silent cries became heart-wrenching sobs.
“It’s going to be all right,” he comforted. “You’re not going have to do anything you don’t want to. I promise.” He held her, stoked her hair, and then rained small kisses against her temples.
She leaned closer and slowly turned her head so that his soft lips pressed against the side of her face, her cheeks, and finally her lips.
At first the kiss was so light that she could barely feel his lips, but stars spun around Josie’s head at a dizzying rate.
His arms tightened possessively around her waist and within seconds she felt his hands make those tiny circles she loved so much against the small of her back.
Slowly, she slid her arms up his chest and locked them behind his neck. The kiss deepened, but Josie couldn’t seem to get close enough. She desperately wanted to fuse with his heat. Fire surged through her veins, sharpened her senses, and made her pulse race.
Intoxicated by the taste of him, she moaned during the passionate tango their tongues performed.
Her melodic moans, as well as her soft breasts pressed against him, seduced William. He loved how her body responded to his slightest touch and how her breathing came fast and light.
A caldera of emotions broke inside him, and he was scorched by fire. Finally, he deserted her lips to blaze a trail down to the crook of her neck.
She sighed and lifted her chin high to give him better access. “Will…”
It had been an eternity since he’d heard his name spill with such passion from her lips. A part of him still wasn’t sure whether all of this was just a dream, yet she felt too good and tasted even better to be a figment of his imagination.
An ache buried in the core of Josie began to pulse out of control. God help her, she wanted, needed, to make love to William despite the residue of fear. However, her body’s chant to give in quickly conquered the renegade emotion. She tugged at his wet shirt, and then broke away from his lips to pull the garment over his head. William stood up and held out his hand. They stared at each other for an eternal moment, and then came together again in a storm of passion and desire. “I want you,” she paned. “I want you now.” That was all William needed to hear before he swept her into his arms and carried her up to bed.
Chapter 24
Heaven was indeed a place on earth; and to William and Josie’s surprise, it also existed outside of the borders of Paris, France. Once the old lovers entered the bedroom and stood facing one another, both seemed to have made an unspoken pact to take their time and savor each movement and moment.
Josie gave William the honor of lifting off her football jersey and in return, she was rewarded with the same opportunity. The beautiful contrast of their skin tones was highlighted by slivers of moonlight filtering through the blinds.
Seconds later, they were pressed together for another tantalizing kiss. Both became addicted to the taste of the other and were consumed with a passion that left them quaking.
Josie’s fingertips explored his chest, and she quickly discovered that his heartbeat pounded at the same rate as her own. The knowledge filled her with a new sense of power.
His big, strong, and possessive hands returned to their usual spot and made slow and seductive circles while she enjoyed the sweet invasion of his tongue. And just when she couldn’t take any more of his intoxicating kisses, his lips deserted hers to glide down the column of her neck and settle on a taut nipple.
Instantly, her knees weakened as she gasped for breath and dug her fingers through his silky hair. His gentle suckle unraveled her world and pitched her onto lofty clouds of splendor.
William swept her up into his arms again and gently placed her on the bed. He filled his hands with her soft breasts, and then captured her gasp with a deep kiss.
She moaned as he lowered onto her and his rock-hard erection pressed insistently against her thigh. Her body rejoiced as if it recognized a missing part of itself.
He returned to her breasts and he caressed her with his mouth, teeth, and tongue until she twitched wildly beneath him. William’s hand floated like a feather down her body and brushed against the nest of curls between her legs.
Her anticipation heightened as he began to nudge her legs open, and that same feathery touch roamed her inner thighs. Josie closed her eyes, surprised by how much she trembled.
When his lean fingers finally dipped inside her, she nearly came unglued. At his slow, gentle strokes against her sensitive nub, her breath thinned to the tiniest of vapors.
Josie’s repetitive moans filled the room like music, and it also served as an aphrodisiac for William.
After he’d thoroughly bathed her tanned nipples, his mouth traveled lower to explore other body parts. Seconds later, he locked his arms around her hips, and his tongue replaced his probing fingers.
At the intense pleasure, Josie thrust her hips up and tried to scramble away. Instead, she gave him better access to the very thing she was trying to withhold.
She gasped for breath, never seeming to get enough air into her lungs. The stars returned behind her closed eyelids and she suddenly felt hot, and then cold.
His talented tongue performed a series of erotic dances with the bud of her femininity and she locked her legs around his neck. In no time, tremors of her first orgasm ripped away reality and created a new world where only pleasure existed.
William’s plunder through her body’s sweet honey only increased her struggle to break away from his hot mouth; but his grip remained firm.
Josie squealed with reckless abandonment as her next orgasm hit hard and fast.
However, William was relentless.
