Chapter 32 She Was Mesmerized

• One of the stranger’s hands, fingers calloused from time and travel, ran through her hair and clenched down to hold her in place. There would be no escape. As they kissed, his other hand lowered the blankets from her body, and knee by knee he allowed them to pass beneath him until they only covered her calves. Jade Louise kicked them the rest of the way off, the cool air of her room even colder after so long spent touching herself beneath the blankets. Goosebumps raised across her skin. The kiss broke, and the stranger’s hand hardened its grip on her hair, holding her head firmly in place. “I can smell you beautiful,” he uttered. There was a rasping quality to his voice that had been there at the bar and Jade Louise knew she had drawn it out of him. “You’ve been touching yourself, you filthy lady. No man has ever had you because you’ve been too busy playing all alone. But all that’s about to change.”
• Every word he said struck her hard and left her desperate for more. Jade Louise gasped and reached up, running a hand across the back of his head and drawing him down against her so they could kiss once more. She was greedy for his lips, and he indulged her. But lips weren’t the only thing the stranger was hungry for. His free hand met the exposed skin of her thigh and began to slide upward. The flat of his palm felt cool against her heated body, and soon Jade Louise could not continue the kiss at all how the sensation of it made her squirm and twist. “Owww,” she breathed, light-headed.
• The hand continued up until it reached the arch of her panty, and then his fingers followed the seam of the leg downward and inward. “What is it, my beautiful lady?” he asked her, voice gritty and playful.