Wild Forces: A Friends to Lovers Romance (O-Town Book 2) by Karen Renee (summer reads .TXT) 📕

emoji, which made me laugh. Minutes later, sporting a goofy grin, I opened the door. He stalked to me, shut the door behind him and hooked me behind my neck with his arm. His mouth crashed down on mine in a forceful kiss, our bodies flush together.

Within seconds my world narrowed to him and the multitude of feelings coursing through me. Every stroke of his tongue sent curls of heat through my belly.

It registered late, but he had moved us past the kitchen to the couch. His weight settled on me and my hands roved his sculpted back.

As if my touch broke a spell, he pulled his mouth free.

My eyes opened slowly, but my mouth did the opposite. “Why did you stop?”

His expression moved from admiration to mirth before he burst out laughing.

I moved a hand to nudge his shoulder. “Nothing’s funny here, Gabriel.”

He sobered fast. “Believe me, I know.”

His hips rocked into mine and his hardness could not be missed.

He continued. “But I told you we would go slow. That should’ve waited until the end of the evening, but I just couldn’t stop myself.

I gave him a shy smile. “What if I don’t want to go slow?”

He blinked for a long moment. “Are you sure about that?”

Keeping tight hold on his back with one hand, my other hand plunged into the hair on the side of his head to bring his lips to mine. I thought the kiss would pick up where we left off, but he tore his lips away from me.

His eyes were heated. “Cassandra, the first time I kissed you, I was drunk. You kissed me as a ‘show’ yesterday, but when I kissed you back after the show, you said ‘we couldn’t.’ Honey, I kiss you and you fire up like this, it drives me on. So, you need to be sure you don’t care about going slow. ’Cause, I kiss you again, it’s gonna become more. I have to taste all of you, Cassie. And God knows, I get your clothes off you, I’m gonna have to get inside you.”

I fought to keep my expression light but I knew I failed as Gabe’s face became concerned.

“Am I another conquest to you?”

He stiffened, and I kept talking. “I know what you said about changing your ways, but what happens after?”

He blinked. When he opened his eyes, they were tender and warm. “I don’t know, Cassie. Cecilia says something all the time about not borrowing trouble. I think that’s what you’re doing. I can’t predict the future, but I want to give this a chance. Don’t you?”

Like he had to ask.

“Yes. Even if it scares the bejeebers out of me.”

He smiled. “Well, that’ll be two of us who are scared. Now, how about you kiss me, Daughtry?”

I kissed him, and he told no lies. Kissing him fired me up like nothing else. Keeping our mouths connected, his body lifted. He scooped me off the couch and only broke the kiss so he could see his way to my bedroom.

In my room, he flicked the light on. I looked in his cobalt eyes. “What are you doing, Gabe?”

He put me on my feet, and his hands roved from my hips up my sides grazing my breasts and back down to my hips again. “You think for one second I’m gonna get something I’ve always wanted and not watch all of it, you’re crazy, Cassandra.”

“Something you’ve always wanted, huh? I find that hard to believe.”

He grabbed the hem of my tee and yanked it up. “Believe it, Daughtry. You’ve got it goin’ on.”

His lips lowered to my neck, and my hands delved into his hair while I inhaled his unique scent. I felt him unclasping my bra, and not to be left out, I pulled up his polo shirt, and he tore his head away from me so he could yank it off.

My bra was undone, so I tossed it aside while I watched him undo his shorts. When my hands went to my yoga pants, he shook his head.

“No way, Cassandra. I get the honors of doing that. Especially since you already took off your bra.”

My eyebrow arched. “What about me? What do I get to do to you?”

His shorts fell to the floor, and the size of his erection could not be missed even if he was still wearing his boxer briefs.

I looked up to his eyes, and the most wicked grin I’d ever seen on him curled his lips. “Anything you want, Cassandra. And I do mean anything.”

“In that case,” I said, and slipped my fingers into the waistband of his underwear so I could pull them down, being careful of his cock.

“Goodness,” I breathed.

He tilted my chin up and his eyes roved over my face. “No, honey. You’re the goodness.”

Having him naked in front of me sent a thrill through me, and I planted my lips on his chest. I kissed his pectoral muscles, circled his nipple with my tongue, and before I could move further, Gabe’s arms locked around me and we landed on my bed.

He lifted up, his eyes full of desire. His fingers dug into the waistband of my yoga pants and underwear before he yanked them off. We were close to the edge of the bed, so I scooted up the bed. When his body came back to mine, he kissed me like I’d never been kissed before. My legs wrapped around him as a needy desire built.

He reached back to unwrap my legs. “Love that you’re worked up, sweetheart, but like I told you last night. You taste really fuckin’ good, and I’m dying to taste all of you.”

I smiled. “Does that mean I get to taste you, too?”

A glint hit his eyes. “Not tonight, darlin’. But it’s good to know you want that.”

My retort and all other intelligent thoughts left my brain because he dragged his wicked tongue down my neck to my belly with a brief pit-stop at my breasts.

“Gabe,” I moaned.

“Cassandra,” he murmured, but I