Forbidden Touch: A Best Friends To Lovers Romance - Iona Rose (free ebook reader .txt) 📗

about Blaze, I told myself. It was about me and my body. Raw desire raced through me. I glanced at Declan as we entered the low-lit bar. He was sandy haired and huge, with shoulders that went on for days. The right kind of man for a one-night stand.

“Wine for the lady,” he said to the bartender. “And a beer for me.”

The rest of the guys entered the bar and I caught Blaze’s gaze and quickly looked away. Nothing would stop me from having a good time. I’d never been as hot as I’d felt for the last couple of days. Hawaii had ignited my desire and I needed it quenched before the night was over.

Declan and I made small talk as we sipped our drinks but we both knew we were just buying time. When we finished our drinks, he took my hand into his. I waited for the sparks, the rush of lust… nothing came.

I’d been expecting too much, I told myself. He was handsome and any girl would be lucky to have him as a potential one-night stand.

“How about a stroll?” he suggested, his voice suggestive.

I swallowed hard. This was what I wanted. I nodded.

He led me out of the bar.

We didn’t walk far before he led me into an alley and pulled me into his hands. I loved kissing and making out as much as the next person, but I was not an alley girl.

I’d hoped we were headed to his hotel room. I let him kiss me but the fire in my belly had died. His hands on my hips were doing nothing for me. It stopped being fun and adventurous. His hand snaked between us but before it reached its destination, I clamped it with mine. I broke the kiss. “Look Declan, it was fun but—”

“It’s a little late to be playing hard to get. You’ve been begging for it all afternoon,” Declan said and brought his mouth to mine again.

I turned my head away and his mouth landed on my cheek. I placed my hands on his chest and gave him a shove. “No!”

The shove dislodged him but he was right back in the next second. His eyes bulged with anger, desire or both.

Fear coursed through my veins at the realization of the vulnerable position I had placed myself in.

He grabbed me by the ass and pulled me against his hard cock.

Then I felt him pull away and before I knew what was happening, Declan was on the ground.

Blaze was couched over him, punching him over and over again. “Haven’t you ever heard the word no?” he said in a hard, cold tone.

I grabbed Blaze’s shoulders. “Please. Let’s go.”

Something in my tone reached him and he got off Declan. He took my hand and led me out of the alley. He flagged down the first cab he saw. He never said a single word to me.

I felt like an errant child as we headed to the condo.

The cab came to a stop and I pushed the door open and jumped out, leaving Blaze to pay the driver.

He caught up with me just before the elevator doors shut.

I kept my face turned away as the elevator went up, desperate for the privacy of my room.

Blaze opened the door, stepped in and held it open for me and then he shut it. “What the fuck is wrong with you Brooke? How could you go off with a stranger at night?”

Heat flushed through my body. How dare he? I wasn’t a child! Yes, going for a walk with Declan had been a lapse of judgment as I let myself be led by my lust. Still, that didn’t give Blaze a right to speak to me as if I was five years old. I folded my arms across my chest. “I’m an adult and I have needs too.”

It was the wrong thing to say.

“Needs?” Blaze asked incredulously. Then without warning, he grabbed me by my legs and hoisted me over his shoulders.

“What are you doing Blaze?” I shouted as the floor went past me.

He carried me to my bedroom and dropped me unceremoniously on the bed. He stared down at me, his eyes dark.

I swallowed a lump of saliva.

I watched as he removed my sandals and then stood by the side of the bed, his gaze rippling down the lines of my body hungrily.

Heat engulfed me and my nipples pressed against the skimpy bikini top I wore underneath my tank top.

Blaze’s dark eyes rose up and met mine. “Needs, you said?” he said, his voice low and husky. “If all you wanted was an orgasm, I can help you with that.”

My heart pounded hard in my chest.

Blaze crawled into the bed and arranged himself between my legs.

I couldn’t believe he’d actually go ahead with his threat. My chest rose up and down with every rugged breath I took.

He held my gaze as his hands gripped the hem of my tank top and pushed it up to reveal my bikini clad breasts. He hissed as his gaze dropped to my chest.

As he stared at me, desire raged through my body.

The only thing covering my breasts was the bikini top.

Blaze did not do anything for the next few seconds as if he was giving me a chance to say no.

I was too far gone to say no. My body was too desperate to be touched. Panic engulfed me at the thought of him chickening out. I was his for the taking, the consequences be damned.

My breath quickened as Blaze expertly snapped the front clasp of my bikini top, releasing my breasts. And in that moment, our relationship officially shifted from friends to lovers. Blaze soaked in the sight of my bare breasts and then he cupped them as though weighing them.

Sweet sensations swamped over me as he teased my aching, engorged nipples. A groan escaped my lips as my pussy dripped wetness into my bikini bottoms.

Blaze squeezed my breasts together and brought his head down then closed his mouth