Operation Date Escape

having those large hands encircling her waist as he helped her down felt wonderful.
    “Damn,” he muttered the second her feet touched the driveway.
    “Cole? What’s wrong?”
    Please don’t let him say he’s changed his mind. Not now. Not tonight.
    “Our dinner.”
    “What about it?”
    Frowning, he said, “I left it sitting in the parking lot back at the restaurant.”
    “Oh.” She giggled softly. “Guess we had other things on our mind. Like...”
    “Dessert?”
    She nodded, her pulse picking up again. “Yes.”
    He closed the door and drew her to him. “I can barely think to breathe when you’re around. Do you know how badly I want to make love to you?”
    She looked up into his dark, hungry eyes and a shiver of excitement moved through her. She reached up, running her hand along the firm line of his jaw. “The feeling’s mutual.”
    He groaned , his eyes drifting shut as she ran a fingertip over his lips.
    “Cole?”
    “Hmm?” he said, opening his eyes.
    “If we both want to be together so badly, shouldn’t we be inside?”
    “Keep on touching me that way and I will be inside – of you. Right here. Right now. Making love to you in the driveway, my neighbors be damned.”
    “Promises. Promises.”
    With another husky growl, he took her hand in his and guided her toward the house.
    “I just want you to know that I’ve never done this before,” she confessed as he led her inside.
    “Stepped into a house?” he asked with a teasing grin as he closed the door behind them. He tossed his truck keys onto the kitchen counter and then turned back to her with a sexy grin.
    She laughed. “No. I’ve done that a few times. I was referring to going home with a guy on a first date. Or second even.”
    Threading his fingers through hers, he led her down the hallway. “Then I guess it’s lucky for me that it’s our third.”
    “Third?” she asked in confusion as they stepped into a bedroom. Cole’s bedroom.
    He turned and released her hand, gathering her into his arms instead. “Sure, the hospital was our first date, kiss and all. Then there was our tree date where you were looking all sexy in that low cut lace shirt of yours.”
    “It wasn’t low cut. It was unbuttoned.”
    “And making it pretty damn hard to do my job,” he admitted as his mouth moved over hers.
    She curled her arms around his neck and rose up, eagerly meeting his kiss. His hands slipped beneath the hem of her shirt to skim her bare flesh, gliding up over her ribs, nothing more than a thin layer of satin separating her aching flesh from his touch.
    She moaned softly, the sound of which was lost in the hungry mating of their lips and tongues. Her frenzied hands tugged at his shirt, freeing it from his jeans, needing to feel his flesh against her flesh. Needing him.

    Cole pulled away just long enough remove his shirt and toss it to the floor. He had wanted this from that first kiss in the emergency room. Had wanted her.
    Kelsie whimpered his name in undisguised need.
    He reached out to caress her cheek . “You make me want so bad.” He tunneled his fingers through her hair. The sensation of the silken strands sliding between the parted appendages had his blood heating up all the more. “You’re so beautiful.”
    “ When I’m with you, I feel beautiful.” Her hands moved to the hem of her gauzy top, dragging his gaze up with it as she took it off. Fiery hair danced across the creamy flesh of her shoulders as her shirt fluttered to the floor at their feet.
    H is gaze slid down to the deep plunging V at the front of her red satin bra and his breath caught. “Mmm...nice.”
    “ Glad you like it.”
    “Oh, doll, I more than like it.”
    “Nanci made me buy it,” she confessed, almost nervously, and then glanced down with a frown. “I tried to tell her that these kinds of bras are more for women with bigger...um, larger...”
    “Breasts?”
    Color flooded her cheeks as she nodded her reply.
    He reached out to run a finger along the curve of a breast. “You couldn’t be more wrong about that.” His finger trailed down over the satin. “This bra was made for you. Remind me to thank Nanci for talking you into buying this the next time I see her.”

    “Come here,” Cole ordered with a smile as he drew her to him. Lowering his head, he brushed his mouth over hers. “I really like it,” he whispered huskily against her parted lips. “I really like you.”
    Kelsie moaned softly, tipping her head back as his