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A Need So Insatiable By Cecilia Robert
(Hearts #1)
A New Adult/Adult Contemporary Romance
Releasing February 28th, 2014
A Need So Insatiable will be on sale for .99 cents the first few days of release!
Rafael Van Rees, maestro extraordinaire, prides himself on being in control of his destiny, music and women. As far as he is concerned, his past is a black cloud in the distance--until he meets Sophie, that is, and his world spins out of control in more ways than one. He knows the darkest sins and secrets eventually reveal themselves, but when it comes to Sophie, he'll stop at nothing to protect her from his past. Even if it kills him.
“I
missed you,” I say.
He
exhales, his breath fanning the sensitive skin on my wrist. He
presses his lips on my palm, staring at me from beneath his lashes.
“I missed you too.” He nips at my fingers. “Ready to work on
me?”
The
stapler I’m holding slips out of my free hand and clatters on the
desk.
“Um,
yeah. I just need to send a few more emails.”
“Good.”
He moves around the counter to sit on Maria’s chair. It creaks
under his weight and his scent slams into my throat. There’s no way
I’ll get any work done with him sitting there. Every shift of his
body heightens my awareness of him. He leans forward, his cheek
touching my shoulder, and my heart thuds faster in my chest.
“You
have beautiful fingers,” he says, his breath a warm breeze on my
skin.
Aw,
hell! Two can play that game.
“You
have beautiful lips,” I say. “I spent most of my nights this week
wondering how they’d feel on my skin--” He shifts closer, the
heat coming off him slams into me. The air surrounding him
rearranges, bowing to this god of hotness.
Back
away. No, come closer, please.
Dear God, deliver me from temptation!
Gripping
the mouse, I close the email program and power off the computer.
“You
done?” he asks. Did his voice get sexier?
I
turn to look at him. Is that amusement on his face?
“For
now.” I pull out the bottom drawer and grab my handbag. “I can’t
work with you breathing down my neck.” I smile saucily at him, and
stand. He quickly tugs my hand, and I collapse onto his lap. He leans
in to lick my neck.
Oh.My.
God!
“I
wasn’t breathing down your neck. Believe me, breathing down your
neck would feel very
different.” His lips are so close. So very close. His gaze is fixed
on my lips. If I move two inches, our mouths would touch.
“Question
is, will I like it, or love it?”
He
inhales sharply, his pupils dark and dilated.
I
hop down his lap, brushing my fingers along the huge bulge in his
pants, and wink at him. If he wants to play the flirting game, I’m
all for it. I pick up Alejandro’s messages and walk toward his
office, feeling Rafael’s hot gaze on me the whole way.
Rafael
isn’t where I left him when I return. I pause, taking a deep breath
and look around. Rafael is so freakin’ intense. My nerves are still
tingling from the contact with his tongue minutes ago.
I
rub my palms down my black pencil skirt, heading toward my desk. A
hand grabs my wrist before I can make it there. Heat skates up
my arm like a live wire. I’m yanked into a hard chest and backed up
to a wall in two seconds flat. My pencil skirt rides up my thighs as
he grabs my legs and tucks them around his hips, pushing his muscular
thighs forward. My black heels dig into his back as his body pins me
to the wall. He plants his strong hands on the wall next to my head,
caging me in. I couldn’t escape if I wanted to.
“Will
you?” The words sound like a growl and his lips are an inch from
mine. He smells like liquor, cologne and Rafael.
“Will
I what?” I’m trembling like I’m jacked up on electricity and
the heat curling between my legs is unlike any I’ve ever
experienced.
“Love
it?”
Sweet
mother of all things holy! That voice!
“Time will tell.” I slide my legs off his waist and duck
under his arms, giggling--giggling,
for crying out loud--but before I can reach my desk, he slips his arm
across my waist and slams me back into his rock-hard chest. “Jesus,
Rafael. What’s gotten into you?”
He
spins me around to face him. Jesus his eyes! Why am I not ashes on
the floor right now? He kisses my forehead, his hot breath fanning my
skin and squeezes my hip with one hand before sliding it down to my
inner thigh. “I love this skirt. You should always wear this. I
love the ripped jeans, but I love this more.” He moves his hand to
cup me between my legs, rubbing his palm against me. “I can’t
wait to lose myself in you, Sophie. I’m clean, but if you want, we
can swap health reports. Are you on birth control?”
“No,
not yet.”
“Well,
get on it, because I can’t wait to sink my dick inside you, Sophie.
Love you until I’m the only thing you can think of. And then, my
sweet little butterfly, fuck you so damn hard, the way I’ve wanted
to from the moment I saw you in those scruffy boots.”
He
brushes his lips on my forehead, my jaw, tracing them along my upper
lip, teasingly, breathing life into my skin. His tongue sneaks out to
brush the labret on my lip, and he groans deeply. I can’t help but
moan in response. His warm breath on my skin has me aching so damn
bad. He finally kisses me, and I’m flying. Even gravity can’t
hold us down. The world around us falls away and, for a moment, we’re
in a place where time and problems cease to exist.
Where
it’s just Rafael and me.
Thank you for sharing the excerpt, Jessica! :) Cecilia x
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