what?” Raising her head, she sighed. Oh the man was
beautiful. Around him somehow her mind shut off and she became a bumbling
idiot. His eyes twinkled with amusement and he winked.
“Are you up for coming out with us tonight?” he asked again.
She blinked, trying to clear the fog. God, he must think she
was such a loser. She couldn’t even have a normal conversation. “Umm…sure,” she
stammered.
Marco stepped toward her. Josie’s nipples beaded tightly,
pressing against the lace of her bra.
A sexy smile curved the corner of his lips. “Do I make you
nervous, Red?”
She squared her shoulders. “Of course not,” she said,
forcing herself to stand her ground and not move away.
He grinned and moved closer. She could feel the heat from
his body and the scent of his sweat turned her on better than any cologne ever
could.
He tucked her bangs behind her ear and trailed his hand
along the back of her neck, cupping her head with his palm to hold her in
place.
“Then how come you’re shivering now?” he whispered against
her ear. His hot breath sent another shiver through her body. “Josie, clearly
you’re as attracted to me as I am to you so why are you fighting it?” he asked.
“I’m not fighting anything.” Damn, the breathless sigh in
her voice didn’t exactly add much validity to her statement.
“Liar,” he said and nipped her earlobe between his teeth.
The touch sent an arrow of heat straight from her ear to her pussy and she
clamped her knees together.
Marco ran a teasing path along the shell of her ear. It felt
amazing. She closed her eyes and tilted her head to allow him better access.
“Don’t make me prove you wrong, Josie.”
Her eyes flashed open, meeting his. The heat burning in his
eyes was almost enough to melt her on the spot.
Trying to hold onto some semblance of control, she said,
“Guys like you aren’t attracted to women like me.”
He wrapped his muscular arm around her waist and pulled her
hips against his. The hard length of his cock pressed against her stomach.
“Clearly my body is telling you otherwise.”
Holy cow, he really wanted her. She grinned to herself.
Without thought, she shifted her body and rubbed against him, loving the way
she could feel his cock thicken through his gym shorts.
He hissed in a breath. “Damn, Red.”
She leaned back, putting a little space between them and
trailed her finger down the length of his chest, stopping at the waistband of
his shorts. His breathing increased as he watched her finger.
“So you seriously want to have dinner with me?”
His cock twitched beneath the fabric of his shorts. He
gripped her hips firmly with his hands and rubbed against her. “What I’d like
is to have you for dinner but we can start with grabbing a bite to eat.
You seemed a bit umm…unsure the other day so I thought you’d be more
comfortable with a group thing.”
Unsure. That was one word for it. Terrified of making an ass
of herself was more like it.
“So what do you say, Josie? You free tonight?”
She’d be a complete idiot to pass up the chance to spend
some time with him. “Sure, why not?”
A huge grin spread across Marco’s face. “Great, so I’ll pick
you up, say seven?”
“Sounds good.”
“You okay with pizza? We’re all meeting at Carlos Pizzeria
before we hit the club.” He watched her as he spoke. “Or we can get something
else to eat if pizza’s no good.”
She shook her head. “No, pizza’s great.” The last thing she
wanted was to seem like some high-maintenance chick.
He grabbed his phone from the bench and handed it to her.
“Why don’t you program in your address and phone number for me?”
Her mouth dropped open and she looked at him.
“What?”
“You want to program me into your phone?”
“Sure, why not?”
She shrugged. She only programmed people into her phone when
she planned on needing them repeatedly. A little flutter of excitement zipped
through her. Maybe he was hoping this