The following text is an excerpt from the novel The 30-Day Deal. The excerpt is from David and Lauren’s first kiss.
LAUREN:
He helped her into the back seat of their ride. As they drove through the city, he leaned close and touched her chin. She looked up and he said, “Let’s break the ice, shall we?”
He kissed her. His lips were soft and warm against hers. He moved them from side to side, not opening his mouth. He kissed the corner of her mouth and she couldn’t help herself. Her lips parted on their own. A puff of air escaped. Actually, it was a sigh.
He pressed tiny kisses across her lips to the other side of her mouth. And then he sucked her bottom lip inside of his mouth. It was over before they could really kiss. She felt his warm hand grasp hers and lift it to his lips. “That was a preview,” he said.
His eyes were green pools of desire. Lauren had trouble catching her breath. She released his hand because hers was starting to sweat. When the car stopped, she exited clumsily, but David caught her arm, steadying her. He looped his arm through hers and walked her past the doors of her building. They walked past the little shop and around the corner to the dog area. He led her behind a large concrete post where nobody would bother them. She was sure that the sun was setting… somewhere.
“You’re so beautiful,” he said, running the back of his hand against her chin. Even the skin on her scalp tingled. “Your skin is like pink fairy floss, glittering in the late light. Your eyes,” he said, and his breath quickened, “they’re like pools in the Great Reef. I want to dive in and learn all of your secrets. But for tonight, Lauren, I want to kiss you.”
Thank God, Lauren thought. And that’s the last thing she thought for several minutes. All she could do was feel.
DAVID:
David couldn’t resist holding Lauren outside the restaurant. But when they got to her apartment building, he let loose the reins of his passion. He pulled her around the side of the building, and pressed her back against the post. She was gorgeous, and he told her so.
And then he kissed her. It was magic. She was magic. Her lips were soft and open to him. He nibbled her bottom lip and dipped his tongue inside her mouth. When she moaned, he tasted rich cream on her breath.
David felt like he was in a dream. He had imagined this so many times. Except this time, the sensations were more real. He could feel the heat of her body pressing against his. He felt the softness of her breasts and thighs molding to him. Her surprisingly strong arms were pulling him closer, untucking the back of his shirt to touch the skin on his back. The intimate touch sent tingles down his spine, causing his balls to tighten in anticipation.
He ignored them and moved closer to her, opening his mouth wider so that their tongues could tangle. His hands, previously hanging by his side, began to smooth her hair and touch her soft cheek. The other wandered across her hip to her waist and pulled her tighter against him. His cock, on standby all evening, joined the fray, pressing insistently against her stomach. He could feel the heat and softness of her body against the throbbing tip and he moaned. Without conscious thought, he thrust his hips against her.
She trembled and her hand moved down to his ass to pull him closer to her, making him see flashes of light behind his eyelids. She squeezed herself tightly against him and wrapped a leg around his hip, rubbing her pelvis against his throbbing dick, the naughty goddess. He grinned into their kiss and used both hands to grasp her ass and lift her off the ground. This move rubbed the zipper of her jeans along his cock, encouraging it to further heights. He’d been at half-mast throughout the ride to her apartment and had discreetly adjusted himself as she got out of the car. Now he was so hard that he was in danger of having a one-eyed peep show sticking out of the waist of his pants. And if she brushed against him, there might be a lights and fountain show to go with it.
He kept her held aloft, where her mouth was even with his, but pulled back his hips, over her grunts and ass-grabs of complaint. He kissed her less deeply, and her hands stilled on his body, which gave him a moment to calm down.
She placed small, nibbly kisses around his lower lip and he smiled, until she untucked the front of his shirt. Her hands instantly came around to run up his chest, leaving a forest fire of heat in their wake. Her eyes had gone dark and he could see the fun and devilment in their depths. It was all he could do not to pull off her pants and fuck her against the post where anyone could see. Damn, but she had amazing hands. His head fell back, and he moaned.
She ran her hands up his chest firmly, touching all of the skin and nipple she could muster. Then she ran her nails through the hair on his upper chest and down the center of his chest to his stomach and…
Whoa, there. He could NOT let her touch the top of his pants. He’d erupt like a geyser. Never mind that he took a moment to rub one off that morning.
He put her down and pulled his hips back. “Best not, luv,” he said roughly. Stepping back, he looked at her stunning face. He’d thought she was beautiful before. But now, her soft lips were plump from his kisses. Her eyes were rich and dewy with her passion. Her shallow breaths caused her breasts to swell. In out. In out. He leaned down to kiss her collarbone and moved down to the curve of her breast. She tasted like a summer picnic of fruit and honey near the salty beach. He ran a tongue under her top along the edge of her bra. She leaned her head back and moaned, scraping her nails along his scalp and grasping his hair to pull him closer to her. His name came out of her mouth in a whoosh of air, “David.”
In his fantasies, she had been happy and compliant. She was so much MORE in real life. She was passionate and involved rather than passive. It drove a shaft of lightening through his groin. He wanted her so bad. He kissed her lips once. Twice. And then he took both of her hands and stood back.
She leaned forward to give him another quick kiss before leaning back against the post as if she couldn’t stand on her own. “So yeah, the chemistry’s good for me,” she said. “You?”
All he could do was nod and pant.