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  His mouth caught hers as she struggled to get closer to him. His arms held her solidly against him as she felt his hands stroke her bottom and press her hips towards his cock.

  “Easy, baby. I don’t really care but I bet you might if I took you right here.”

  Her eyes were dazed with desire as Joe savored the soft cheeks of her bottom sitting in his hands. His cock raged with the knowledge that she was bare under her little pajama shorts, all he had to do was push the fabric aside to touch her pussy. He wanted to—God! He wanted to fuck her right then and make sure every man on his team heard her cry out as he pleasured her.

  He was an animal but fought against the urge to demonstrate it so publicly.

  His arms caught her up and his body rose out of the water in the same motion. Amber landed against his chest as he carried her out of the hot tub and back towards the bed she’d been so determined to leave. Now it looked inviting with the door that could be closed to keep the rest of the world away.

  Joe walked right past the guestroom. He let her feet slip to the floor as one of his hands stripped her wet shirt over her head. It hit the wood floor with a soft squish as his hands cupped her breasts. Pleasure hummed across her skin as he gently massaged the sensitive globes.

  A shadow crossed the window behind Amber, and Joe let his mouth curve into a grin. She didn’t need to know that his men had taken notice of just what he was up to. Nope, it wasn’t a romantic idea but it was very enjoyable. It was primitive, just as basic as his need to get inside her body. Her slim fingers suddenly curled around his cock making his breath rasp between his teeth.

  “See, honey?”

  “You need a warning label, Joe Lott.” Amber trembled as she stroked the hard length of his cock. Lord help her, the thing felt delicious against her hand. Wicked little ideas paraded across her mind as she considered returning a few of the favors he’d shown her during their first traffic lesson.

  “So, Josiah, how’s your tolerance for yellow lights?” Amber wiggled out of her wet pajama bottoms before flashing him a view of her sassy seat. She climbed onto his bed and crawled across it on all fours. Joe growled with appreciation as she lifted one hand and crocked a finger at him.

  “Come over here, Josiah.”

  She lowered her belly to the bed and propped her elbows on the mattress. Her little toes wiggled in the air as she bent her knees and kicked her feet into the air. Joe watched her finger as it beckoned him closer. His cock jerked as he stepped forward and she slipped her fingers around him again.

  Her lips stopped a bare inch from the head of his cock as she aimed her eyes at his face. “Oh, you didn’t answer me, Josiah. Aren’t you Navy SEALs taught to say, yes, ma’am?”

  His fingers twisted in her hair as he growled at her. Amber giggled and smoothed her hand down the length of his erection. Her own body burned with need but she was having fun too, and the combination was euphoric.

  “Suck me.” His words were hard and demanding but they sounded delightful to her. Amber sent her hand down his cock again as his fingers tightened on her hair. “Close enough.”

  Her little tongue licked the head of his cock and he groaned. She licked all the way around the head with no hurry. Her wet tongue found the slit in the top of his cock and tormented it before circling the head again.

  “Yes, I seem to remember you showing me exactly how long a yellow light could last for.”

  Oh shit!

  Amber lowered her head until she captured the top of his length. She closed her lips around him and listened to the hiss his breath made as he sucked it in. That little male sound pushed her forward with confidence as she relaxed her jaw and took more of his cock into her mouth. Her tongue found the spot right under the head where all her girlfriends had said you could drive a man crazy by rubbing it. Joe’s hands twisted in her hair as she sucked and licked together.

  “Jesus, baby! That feels so damn good!”

  His hands urged her forward and Amber didn’t disappoint him. The scent from his body drove her towards wringing more harsh male sounds from his mouth. She sent her fingers down the remaining length of his cock as she licked and sucked harder. His cock suddenly jerked as her hand cupped the twin sacs beneath his rod. A harsh cry hit her ears as his seed hit her tongue. His hand was rigid as it held her head in place. Amber didn’t care, she was delighted by the eruption in her mouth. She licked and sucked on his cock as she listened to him suck in a huge gasp of air and pant as pleasure shook his body.

  “Maybe I should have let your men see that.”

  Joe growled at her. Amber rose up on all fours and pushed back to her knees. His face was harsh but his eyes latched onto her breasts. She wasn’t sure why she wanted to bait him, but the idea refused to stop tempting her with dark pictures of the man she’d seen in his eyes when he’d rescued her from that kitchen.

  Lifting her hands, she gently played with her own nipples. “You stepped into that hot tub naked to prove a point to your buddies, didn’t you?” Amber ran one hand down her chest and over her belly as she looked at the hard cock still standing up from his body. Lifting her eyes, she looked into the harsh demand burning from his eyes.

  “Maybe I should let them see that you respond to me, too.”

  A low laugh met her remark. His hand gently stroked the side of her face before Joe joined her on the bed. His men did know exactly what they were doing but he suddenly understood that Amber didn’t need to know that. She was a sweet garden growing in between the harsh streets of the ugly world. He cupped her breast and watched her eyes fill with pleasure. His woman wasn’t for display.

  “You drive me insane, honey, and I think it’s time to return the favor.”

  Her breath caught in her throat as Joe smoothed his hand down her belly. A little shiver shook her body as he followed his hand. Her thighs parted for him as he gently smoothed the folds of her sex. “In fact, Amber, I think I might enjoy playing lots of different kinds of games with you. We’ll have to try out a few others beside red light, green light.”

  Her eyes flew open as he settled between her spread thighs. Joe watched her as he slipped one finger between the slick flesh. “Now, where were we? Ah, yellow light.”

  His mouth caught her and Amber groaned. The sound just rose from her chest as pleasure took complete command of her thoughts. His hands spread her open as his tongue targeted the little bud at the top of her slit. Pleasure so intense it bordered on pain shot up her body and then down again. Her womb contracted as Joe used one finger to gently penetrate her aching passage. Her hips bucked as she frantically tried to get closer to his tongue. Tension tightened until it broke and another low moan hit the afternoon.

  “Oh baby, that was way too fast.” One finger thrust into her body as he held her thighs open. “But I love the fact that sucking my cock turned you on that much.”

  The crude language hit her ears and made her even hotter. It wasn’t that Amber liked profanity, but hearing the words used for what they really meant made her shiver. People said those same words all the time when they were mad, but hearing it on Joe’s voice made her want to suck him off all over again.

  “I love how wet you get for me.” His eyes were watching his finger as he thrust it into her body. Pulling it free, Joe sent it along the ultrasensitive center of her slit until he found her clit. He pressed on the little button as Amber listened to her own whimper.

  “Wet and sweet.”

  Her pussy glistened and Joe sent the tip of his tongue over her clit. Her hips bucked as he used one arm to brace her against the surface of the bed. Sucking her bud between his lips, he sent two fingers into her pussy as he listened to her moan. It was the sexiest sound a woman ever made. She jerked but he held her down and lapped her slit before pressing his fingers into her again. Raising his eyes, Joe looked up her body to the tight nipples that crowned her breasts. Her back was arched as he thrust into her again.

  His mouth sucked her clit and Amber let insanity take her. She went willi
ngly as her body jerked and bounced on waves of pleasure. It all centered on Joe’s mouth as he sucked and lapped at her. He didn’t let her climax, instead he would stop sucking on her clit just before the tension broke into release.

  “Joe, please!”

  His fingers thrust deeply into her as her body reached a painful level of need. “Hmm, what was that comment you made about answering up, baby? Maybe you just need to ask me for what you want.”

  Amber’s eyes flew open as Joe circled her clit with his finger. Climax simmered like a mirage but she couldn’t reach it because his arm held her completely still on the bed. Those hard eyes watched her face as he ran that finger down her slit and circled the opening to her body with it.

  “Tell me to make you come, baby.” His finger thrust into her body making her frantic for more than just one finger. She needed to be stretched around his cock. Filled with the hard flesh that she could see. His eyes glittered as his jaw drew tight against his own needs. “I won’t fuck you until you tell me to eat this pussy.”

  He meant it too. Amber whimpered as his fingers rubbed over her clit again. Hearing those words was one thing, but what kind of girl talked like that? But she wanted what he promised. Oh God, she didn’t want to have sex, she wanted Joe to fuck her.

  “Eat me, Joe.”

  She whispered the words but Joe didn’t make her beg. His head dropped to her spread body and instantly renewed their attention over her clit. Her body jerked as he gave her enough pressure to climax.

  Joe growled with her harsh cry. Her hips bucked as she tore at his hair and he savored every millisecond of it. Giving one last lap to her clit he rose onto his knees. The spread flesh of her body glistened with her climax. Need tore into his cock as he pulled her hips towards him and thrust into her body. The tight walls of her passage gripped his cock, making him grunt. The need to get inside her body became more intense every time he had his cock inside her. Instead of sating his appetite, fucking her only fueled it.

  “I love hearing you talk dirty to me, baby.”

  Joe wanted to control her this time. Amber looked into his face and saw the raw need flashing back at her. His hands held her hips as he sat on his haunches. His hips flexed and thrust as he pulled her hips towards him.

  “Put your hands above your head.” Amber watched the possessive light enter his eyes before she lifted her hands to the pillows above her. Her breasts rose into twin mountains that his eyes latched onto while he thrust deeply between her thighs.

  “You are stunning, baby.” Amber stared at his face as a new emotion mixed with the light of possession. Somehow, the harsh expression of need mixed with a tender note of affection. It transformed the sex into intimacy as her body shivered and tightened for another climax.

  “That’s it, baby, come for me. Keep your eyes open, I want to watch it sparkle across those baby blues.”

  Her breath caught but her body refused to wait. Joe thrust deeply as she tumbled into climax and her passage gripped his cock. He felt the eruption of his seed as he pulled out and thrust even deeper into her. Her thighs grasped his hips as his seed splashed against the mouth of her womb.

  Her body was useless. Amber couldn’t have moved if she had to. Ripples of pleasure ran across her nerve endings as she tried to fill her lungs with enough air. Joe rolled onto the bed beside her and pulled her body next to his. She shouldn’t have needed any more sleep, but with her head cushioned on his chest she dropped away into slumber.

  Joe twisted one lock of red hair around his finger. His cock twitched as he felt a snarl escape his mouth. He wanted to flip her over and fuck her again and maybe even again but he didn’t want to move as her little hand threaded through his chest hair. He was torn between tender and raw emotions but it all settled onto their bodies like glitter, making him grin.

  “Sleep, baby. I’ll be here when you wake up.”

  Chapter Ten

  Amber glared at her mirror and hissed. She fluffed her hair and made sure the auburn curls were sitting in front of her shoulders today. Her eyes looked around the bathroom and noticed the little hints of its owner.

  She shouldn’t be so nervous. Just because she had never shared a man’s room before didn’t mean she should be…concerned. Women did it all the time.

  She huffed on her way out the door. A shadow moved as Snip shifted out of his spot to allow her to move through the hallway. Her face went up in flames. She quickened her pace but Snip kept step with her.

  Amber tried not to keep looking at the man. Her fingers shook as she filled a glass with ice and opened the door to the refrigerator for the pitcher of tea she’d made before her kidnapping. It wouldn’t be very good but caffeine sounded delightful to her groggy system.

  She turned with the pitcher and looked at Snip leaning against the kitchen counter. He looked at the doorway behind her before moving his eyes to the sliding glass door in front of him. The man had the same precise movement of his eyes that Joe did, but Amber didn’t feel the radiation of strength from Snip. It wasn’t that she doubted his ability to spring into action if needed, it just wasn’t that overwhelming sense of power that seemed to hit her when she stood in a room with Joe.

  What she did feel was surrounded. The leather shoulder harness buckled over his shirt glared at her as Snip moved his eyes around the kitchen once again.

  “You’ve never been under protection before, have you, ma’am.”

  Snip wasn’t asking her. The Navy SEAL stated it as fact. He suddenly moved and plucked the pitcher from her frozen hands before she realized he was reaching towards her. His dark brown eyes smiled at her as he filled her glass and handed the pitcher back to her.

  “You’ll get used to it, ma’am.”

  “No offense, but I sure hope not.”

  He nodded his head before running his eyes around the room again. He pushed away from the counter and moved to the opposite side of the kitchen.

  “Chief went into town for a spell.”

  Snip’s words made her sad. Amber suddenly felt like she was caught in a net while the rest of the world went on spinning without her. Joe had responsibilities to deal with and she had to just sit and wait until the creep with the cocaine showed up in court.

  Alarm raced through her mind next as she considered the fact that she had no idea how long it took to get a trial date. She just might be a blithering idiot by the time Snip was relieved of his duty to shadow her.

  Snip’s eyes suddenly focused on her neck for a split second before a little flame of wicked amusement crossed his eyes and he looked back at the opposite doorway. Amber spun on her heel and headed for her computer. The warm afternoon air made her pout as she thought about the small purple bruises on her neck. She couldn’t cover the things up with a turtleneck even if she wanted to. No one was going to believe she was cold. Besides, every man guarding her knew what she and Joe had been up to in the master bedroom.

  Jesus! Why in the hell did little girls dream about being princesses? Being the center of absolute attention was the pits!

  * * * * *

  “Wrong bed.”

  Amber shrieked and fell into the bed in question. Hard and masculine, Joe’s voice filled the guestroom like a bullhorn. Her reaction amused him. She saw the telltale flicker of humor cross his eyes even if the rest of his face was set into disapproving concrete.

  “I was working but maybe I’ll sleep right here if you’re grumpy tonight.”

  Joe hooked his hands into his belt and glared at her. He was reading her with his eyes once again, as he looked at her system and then back. Amber felt her lips curl up into a grin. She had just powered down for the night so there wasn’t any evidence for him to find. Her amusement was her downfall. His eyes targeted the expression before he ran a hand over the side of her laptop.

  Amber pouted at him as he smiled. Her laptop would be warm and his fingers had found the heat.

  “See? Rocking the boat.”

  Amber shrugged but couldn’t help but smile. She l
ifted both her hands into the air. “Told you I was working. You’re the one who fired off the accusation. You seemed to have a need to command.”

  Joe laughed low and deep as he nodded his head at her. “That’s right, baby, and maybe we’ll play with a few games that will change your mind about liking my orders…but save your teasing for my face…never sneak up on me.”

  Her face went serious as she thought about his words. Joe watched her as his mouth turned down into a frown. He needed to know she could take it. Him, the hard edges and the carefully constructed framework the rest of the world saw.

  He suddenly frowned deeper as Snip’s report filtered into his brain.

  “Did your mother make you feel guilty for sleeping with me?”

  Amber rolled her eyes at him. “Hardly.” She bit her lower lip and regretted even that one word. Somehow, she didn’t like the feeling that Joe might have a negative reaction to her mom. Now, Amber took her mom as she was, but a whole lot of people liked to judge.

  “Does that mean she likes me?”

  Trust Joe to pull out a shovel and dig no matter what danger signs might be posted around a subject. Maybe she should just pull her top off and change the subject. A naughty grin curled her lips as she thought about how Joe’s eyes always seemed to latch onto her breasts. She’d never really thought too much about whether or not she was pretty. The way Joe looked at her made her feel stunning.

  “Amber, if you’re climbing into that bed because your mother called then give me her number because I’ve got a few things to say to her.”

  “Excuse me, I mentioned it because you sounded grumpy. Something must have kept you up last night.”

  His teeth flashed at her as he stepped into the room. “You like sleeping with me. In fact, you like it a whole lot. But it’s the bedtime stories that you crave the most.”