by Maisey Yates
Those same feelings…
Had they ever really left him?
The music had slowed in tempo. The dance floor had filled, the children making way for the adults.
‘We should dance,’ he murmured.
Her chest rose, head tilted, teeth grazing over her bottom lip. ‘I suppose we should…for appearances’ sake.’
He breathed deeply and slowly held his hand out.
Equally slowly, she stretched hers out to meet his. The pads of her fingers pressed into his palm. Tingles shot through his skin. His fingers closed over them.
On the crowded dance floor, he placed his hands loosely on her hips. Her hands rested lightly on his shoulders. A delicate waft of her perfume filtered through his airwaves.
He clenched his jaw and purposely kept his gaze focused above her head.
They moved slowly in tempo with the music, their bodies a whisper away from touching…
‘When did you take your tie off?’ Livia murmured when she couldn’t take the tension that had sprung between them any longer.
She’d been trying very hard not to breathe. Every inhalation sent Massimo’s familiar musky heat and the citrus undertones of his cologne darting into her airwaves. Her skin vibrated with awareness, her senses uncoiling, tiny springs straining towards the man whose hands hardly touched her hips. She could feel the weight in them though, piercing through her skin.
Caramel eyes slowly drifted down to meet her gaze.
The music beating around them reduced to a burr.
The breath of space between them closed. The tips of her breasts brushed against the top of his flat stomach. The weight of his hands increased in pressure.
Heat pulsed deep in her pelvis.
Her hands crept without conscious thought over his shoulder blades. Heart beating hard, her fingers found his neck…her palms pressed against it.
His right hand caressed slowly up her back. She shivered at the darts of sensation rippling through her.
Distantly, she was aware the song they were dancing to had finished.
His left hand drew across her lower back and gradually pulled her so close their bodies became flush.
Her cheek pressed into his shoulder. She could feel the heavy thuds of his heart. They matched the beats of hers.dpg!
His mouth pressed into the top of her head. The warmth of his ragged breath whispered in the strands of her hair. Her lungs had stopped functioning. Not a hitch of air went into them.
A finger brushed a lock of her hair.
She closed her eyes.
The lock was caught and wound in his fingers.
She turned her cheek and pressed her mouth to his throat…
A body slammed into them. Words, foreign to her drumming ears but unmistakably words of apology, were gabbled.
They pulled apart.
There was a flash of bewilderment in Massimo’s eyes she knew must be mirrored in hers before he blinked it away.
A song famous at parties all around the world was now playing. The floor was packed with bodies all joining in with the accompanying dance. Even the passed-out children had woken up to join in with it.
And she’d been oblivious. They both had.
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A PASSIONATE REUNION IN FIJI
Michelle Smart
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Copyright ©2019 by Michelle Smart
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