Harvey (A MacLaughlin Family Novella Book 3) Read Online Free Page A

arms to face him and pressed her hands against his chest. He was so strong. His arms flexed around her and the muscles on his chest rippled beneath her fingertips.
    “I don’t know how any man could say otherwise after kissing you. Why do you give him the right to be the judge, jury, and executioner on your sex life? Liv, you’re a beautiful, sexy, sweet woman.”
    “He’s the only man I’ve slept with.” There. It was out.
    He stilled.
    Here it comes. She prepared herself for the let down. She’d known it would come. Todd said no man would ever enjoy her.
    “You said that asshat only slept with you once.”
    “Y-yes,” she whispered.
    “He told you that crap after taking your virginity?”
    Why was he making this worse? Instead of releasing her, his hold tightened.
    She nodded to answer his last question. It was embarrassing. Why did he keep asking? Nobody wanted an inexperienced virgin who didn’t know what she was doing. She wasn’t holding him back. He could walk out the hotel room door at any moment. Why was he still clinging to her like she was the one about to slip away.
    He dropped to his knees. She looked down at him and tried to step back, but he snaked his arms around her waist. “Let me prove to you he was lying. Give me a chance to show you.”
    Shouldn’t it be the other way around. Shouldn’t I be the one begging?
    He pulled up the hem of her shirt and kissed her stomach. His teeth nipped along her side and her body roared to life. Pleasant sensations rippled across her skin. The all-to-familiar ache in her womb started and radiated outward.
    “Please, Liv. Trust me.”
    She wanted to. She wanted to banish those mortifying accusations from her mind forever.
    “I do.”
    “I promise, you won’t regret those words.”
    His lips went back to her stomach and those butterflies jumped a few more times. He pulled the waistband of her yoga pants down, a little at a time, until they dropped, pooling around her feet.
    She trembled, wondering if he was going to take her panties off and just take her right here in the middle of the hotel room. But, he didn’t. Instead, he stood and slowly removed her hoodie and then the tank top.
    “You’re so beautiful, Liv.”
    A shiver ran down her spine, but she managed a smile. It couldn’t be as bad as last time. Harvey had to be right. Todd was an ass. Maybe he really had lied.
    She shivered. Cool air rushed across her mostly bare body. Her nipples pebbled and poked at their lacy confines. He put his mouth on one and nipped through the black lace. She gasped, but stood still. It had been so long since a man had touched her —in a sexual way. Harvey didn’t stay there long, but moved his mouth to the other nipple. Her breathing sped up and her panties got even wetter, if that was possible.
    He looked up and met her gaze. His soft blue eyes asking for permission to continue. He was being so sweet and kind. Could she be so lucky? She nodded and he unsnapped her bra. He pulled it from her shoulders and groaned.
    “Perfect breasts.” He dipped his head and licked across the nipples of each in turn. “Liv, you taste so good.”
    She bit back another moan and held her breath. He slipped his fingers down her torso, ever so lightly, hooking in the waistband of her panties and pulling them down. Kneeling down, he pulled them all the way to her ankles. His nose brushed against her smoothly waxed mons. His tongue delved between her labia and caressed her clit.
    She gasped and jumped away. Her mind knew what he was doing, but it felt so foreign.
    He smiled, peeling his shirt off as he stood. “Didn’t mean to startle you, but I just couldn’t help myself.” He licked his lips. “You’re going to let me have another taste, right?”
    “You like it?” She hesitated, meeting his hungry gaze. “The way I taste.”
    He nodded vigorously, moving toward her like a big cat stalking its prey. His chest muscles flexed and rippled. He was cut like some of the movie