Steele 05 - Irresistible Forces

merely said, “It depends on what you want do.”
    “What I want to do,” Dominic heard himself say, “is something that will take me and my wife away from the resort for a few hours.”
    The man looked appalled. “You want to leave your suite?”
    Dominic couldn’t help but smile. This man evidently took the resort’s ability to produce results—specifically those that came nine months from now—pretty seriously. “Yes, just for a few hours but don’t worry, this place is definitely living up to our expectations.”
    A relieved expression appeared on the man’s face when he said, “Thank you, sir, and we do have a couple of activities outside the resort that some of our visitors seem to enjoy on occasion. We can arrange for you to rent a sailboat, and then there’s horseback riding along the beach, a private picnic at one of the remote cottages and—”
    “I like the idea of going sailing,” he quickly said, deciding he didn’t need him and Taylor going anywhere slightly remote. “Make the necessary arrangements, and since we’ll probably be gone past lunch, I think a picnic lunch would be nice.”
    “Certainly, sir. I’ll take care of everything for you.”

Chapter 7
    T aylor slowly opened her eyes and saw Dominic sitting in one of the chairs across from the bed. He appeared bigger than life and was definitely impossible to miss. The sunlight shining through the window was beaming on him at an angle that made her insides flutter. He was an incredibly attractive man.
    She shifted in bed and the ache she felt in certain muscles quickly reminded her that he was also a skillful lover—and she hoped a very potent one. After their passionate encounters last night she was pretty convinced she was probably pregnant already. But they had six days and nights to go.
    “Good morning.”
    At the sound of his voice she forcibly put those thoughts to the back of her mind. She was still having delicious aftershocks of last night and seeing him sitting lazily in the chair with his legs stretched out in front of him wasn’t helping matters. At least he was fully dressed.
    “Good morning,” she said, pulling herself up in bed, making sure she kept a tight grip on the bedspread covering her. He might be dressed but she was still completely naked. So much for all those nightgowns she had brought along. At the rate they were going she wouldn’t be using them. At least she’d had on the red one for a split second before he’d taken it off her.
    “How would you like to go sailing today?”
    The low, sexy tone of his voice had tiny little shivers moving down her spine. “Sailing?”
    “Yes.”
    It would get them out of the suite for a while, she thought, and couldn’t help wondering if that was the reason he’d come up with the idea. Was he getting tired of her already?
    “Trust me, that’s not it.”
    She blinked. “Excuse me?”
    He eased his tall frame from the chair and came to stand beside the bed. She thought he looked simply gorgeous in a pair of jeans and a blue polo shirt. “I saw something flash in your eyes just now that I’ve never seen before. Not in all the time I’ve known you,” he said softly.
    She bit her lip nervously. “What?”
    “Doubt. And you’re one of the most confident people I know, male or female. The only reason I think it’s best that we remove ourselves from this suite for a while is because if we don’t, we’re liable to try every damn position in that book and there’re close to sixty of them.”
    She couldn’t help the smile that touched her lips. “Sixty-five to be exact.”
    There was an electric silence in the room as if they were both remembering the ones they had tried so far. “I’ll leave so you can get dressed,” Dominic finally said, as he turned toward the door.
    “I thought you said you wouldn’t be taking any more showers alone,” she couldn’t help but say.
    He stopped walking and turned back around. The look he gave her was filled with desire, as if it wouldn’t take much for him to cross the room and strip her naked. “Trust me. It took all I had not to wake you when I took mine, but the next time I won’t spare any mercy. I plan to have you in there with me.”
    His eyes challenged her to deny what he’d said as a fact and she couldn’t. Doing so would be pointless. In just one night she had discovered she enjoyed making love with him way too much. The man was too downright irresistible for his own good…and hers. She had