Intimate Knowledge Part 1 by Helen Karol Read Free Book Online Page B

rough around the edges maybe, but fine.  She’s clearly not most women.  She ignores him and then when he stays she turns and says.
    “Oh, you mean me.  You’re talking to me.”  Neither sentence is a question; they are statements, incredulous ones.  Like she is surprised he means her, as if she doesn’t expect to be noticed.  Like his seeing her is out of the ordinary.  It is, because he’s breaking protocol.  You’re not supposed to engage with victims or suspects that you’re not directly attached to, and those are the only non-law enforcement personnel that ever enter this room.
    “Yeah, gorgeous. I mean you.”  He is already out of bounds, but he decides she’s needs shaking up.  The honey drawled endearment will either arouse or incense her.  Either way he reckons he’ll get to see those turquoise eyes catch fire.  He’s wrong.  They darken into deep, dark navy pools; it is the rosy, fleshy moistness of her parted lips that that starts the fire in him.
    She is tiny; only comes to the middle of his chest.  A hot rush of lust invades him, along with a desperate need to pick her right up off her feet, to draw every inch of her softness hard and fast into his firm body.  To curl her securely next to his solid chest, cupping those lush buttocks tightly so that her hot pussy is flush against his hard arousal.  He will take his time, nibbling, sucking and easing in and out of the voluptuous plumpness of those blush pink lips, as he slowly conquers that soft, disbelieving, little mouth.  Then he will just as slowly conquer the rest of her, especially the wet folds of her lush, lowers lips.  He imagines parting those, slipping and thrusting his tongue full inside, sucking her clit and tasting her juices, just before he…
    Get a grip, Kincaid.  
    He remembers where he is and is grudgingly grateful that he has only imagined the scene not enacted it.  What’s the matter with him?  He can’t remember ever getting this hot for a woman this fast.  Except.  Fuck!   That’s why she looks familiar.  They must be related.   Now he takes a real good look at her, he sees the likeness is so marked, he feels like an idiot not to have seen it right away.  It is the lighter hair and eye color that fooled him.
    Luke can hardly remember a time when he didn’t lust after his training officer and ex-partner from vice, Raisa Gordon.  From the first moment, he arrived from the Academy, that convoluted combination of badass and fragile beauty floored him.  He’d given up on meeting a woman who affected him as strongly.  He figured she had ruined him and just accepted it as an unavoidable fact of life, the same way he accepted the crimes he worked on each day.
    He never acted on his feelings.  She was thirteen years older than him and his superior while a rookie.  They were colleagues, eventually partners and although she flirted now and then, she showed no signs of sharing his intensity.  She made it know that she didn’t do relationships and never hooked up with anyone she might really like.  He was glad when he was promoted to homicide and it took him away from her on a daily basis.  There were other woman of course, but none that took.  Certainly none who made him want to toss her over his shoulder and carry her off every time he saw her.  None, that is, until today.
    He wants to do that to her now.  Pick her up and get her out of here, away from whatever tragedy she is on a collision course towards.  Carry her off and find somewhere to enact that scene in his head for real.  Instead, he does the next best thing; he offers to buy her a cup of coffee.
    Haunted Spaces will be released in installments early 2014 as it is set slightly later and contains spoilers for the other two in the Detective & Desires Series.  It is a sexually explicit erotic romance, as well as a murder mystery with paranormal elements.

Contemporary Romance Choices Series
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