Adam moved his hand, nudging her chin up with his fist. And then he kissed her.
He took advantage of her submission to part her lips with his tongue and sweep inside, taking her sharp gasp of cooler night air and replacing it with raw heat. In a mist of sensuality Roane was only vaguely aware of him wrapping his arm around her waist and tugging her closer to the edge of her chair. Her arms lifted, hands sliding around the column of his neck to hold him tight as their knees bumped together. Every doubt, every fear, every voice of reason in her head short-circuited except one.
Why havenât I been kissed like this before?
Trish Wylie worked on a long career of careers to get to the one sheâd wanted from her late teens. She flicked her blonde hair over her shoulder while playing the promotions game, patted her manicured hands on the backs of musicians in the music business, smiled sweetly at awkward customers during the retail nightmare known as the run-up to Christmas, and got completely lost in her car in every single town in Ireland while working as a sales rep. And it took all that character-building and a healthy sense of humour to get her dream job, she feelsâwhere she spends her days in reindeer slippers, with her hair in whatever band she can find to keep it out of the way, make-up as vague and distant a memory as manicured nails, while she gets to create the kind of dream man sheâd still like to believe is out there somewhere. If it turns out he is, she promises sheâll let you knowâ¦after sheâs been out for a new wardrobe, a manicure and a make-overâ¦
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Dear Reader
Is there anything sexier than an intelligent man? I donât think so. If heâs drop-dead gorgeous and sexy as sin heâll turn my headâabsolutely he willâbut make him as intelligent as he is drool-worthy and youâve got my undivided attention!
When Adam Bryant started to take shape in my mind he was an intelligent manâdonât get me wrong. But I didnât realise just how intelligent until Iâd written the first chapter. I guess there should have been hints of it there butâcall me shallowâI may have been a tad distracted by the image of an Adonis skinny-dipping on a beach in the moonlight. Iâm only human! Then all of a sudden my motorcycle-riding, skinny-dipping, black sheep/prodigal son of a hero started quoting Voltaire and Kerouac at my heroine. Hang on, I thought. This one is deep. This one is way more intelligent than I am. This one? Oh, my. This one is incredibly sexy! Never mind my heroineâI want him.
But a guy like this is a thinker, heâs an analyser. He was never gonna fall for a woman overnight, was he? So what happens when the story wants itself told inside a time frame of four days? Hmmâ¦letâs just see, shall we?
Hs & Ks
Trish
For Sharon Wâfriend, reader, and fellow admirer of
hot men and gorgeous horses. Luv ya, babes!
CHAPTER ONE
âEXCUSE ME. IâM SORRY. This is a private beach.â
Roane Elliott stepped tentatively closer. A full moon lit everything around her in shades of silver and grey, with black shadows that seemed to breathe with the ebb and flow of the tide. But her surroundings didnât worry her as much as the presence of the stranger; she might have known every rock, every path, every place the sand sank deeper beneath her feetâbut she also knew she was too far away from a 911 call for it to help if she got into troubleâ¦
Her footsteps faltered. But it wasnât the sudden 911 thought that had done it; it was because she was now standing close enough to see he wasâ
Her eyes widened. Oh, dear Lord. He was naked!
More than that, he was an Adonis. In the silvery light every tight muscle was defined in shadowy dips and shimmering planes from wide shoulders to tapering waist to taut⦠Her mouth went dry.
He turned around, so Roane swiftly averted her gaze, and mumbled under her breath, âLook at his face.â
When she glanced at him from the corner of her eye her errant gaze didnât do what it was told. Well, who could blame her? He was sensational. She damped her lips as if she could taste him on the air before forcing her gaze sharply upwards, her palms itching with an almost primal urge to reach out and touch.
âThis is a private beach,â she repeated with a little more force, lifting her chin to make her point. âYou shouldnât be here.â
âThe ocean belongs to everyone.â Even the tone of his voice was magical.
Well, he could take that deep, rumbling, deliciously masculine voice of his that was doing something completely undiscovered to her pulse rate andâ