Lynx Loving by S. K. Yule Read Free Book Online Page A

better?”
    “Yes. Thank you.” He cupped her cheek.
    She smiled up at him. “You’re welcome.” She tugged at his wet T-shirt. “A little help?”
    He lifted his arms, and she worked the shirt up to his biceps, but he had to finish as she wasn’t tall enough to reach. She sucked in a breath. True, she’d seen him without his shirt on many times at home when he was working outside or playing football with his brothers and Brady, but never in an intimate one-on-one setting such as this.
    He was sculpted to perfection. Golden skin hugging and defining every inch of muscle across his broad chest, shoulders, arms, and shredded abs made her mouth water. She wanted to lick the droplets of water from every inch of his body.
    She reached for the button at the waist of his jeans, and he covered her fingers with his hand, stilling her progress. “This isn’t a good idea.”
    “But I want you,” she whispered. She looked up into his eyes. “Always have.”
    She leaned forward and nibbled his chest then looked up at him. His lips were drawn in a thin line, and a tic started in his jaw. Then it dawned on her. Maybe his guilt over Nyssa and not wanting to do anything to piss off her brother weren’t the only reasons why he didn’t want to pursue a relationship with her. Maybe he didn’t want her. He might be attracted to her, but maybe that was all it was for him.
    “I’m an idiot,” she mumbled. Her lip began to quiver.
    “Why would you say that?”
    She shrugged. “If you don’t want me, you could just say so.”
    “Excuse me?” He placed his hands on either side of her neck and let his thumbs rest just on her jawlines.
    “Nothing,” she went to pull away, but he dropped his hands and encircled her wrists with his fingers.
    “You know I want you. That is the one thing that can never be doubted.”
    “ Wanting me and wanting me are two different things.”
    His brows knitted together. “Wait... What?”
    “You just want to have sex with me, don’t you? That’s what all of this trying not to touch me is about. You don’t want anything else other than that. No relationship. That’s why you’ve denied us being together. That’s why you know my brother would be furious because he would beat your ass for using me that way.”
    A low growl resonated through his chest and up his throat. “That is not true. I am in fucking agony every minute I’m around you. Thinking about kissing you, holding you, waking up with you every morning, having you in my life as more than just a soon to be sister-in-law drives me insane. Do you have any idea what it is like for me to listen to your magical laughter or see your full lips when they pose in that perfect pout, or...Damn it, just to look at you and not be able to touch you?”
    His ragged breathing matched her own, and heat settled low in her stomach. “Yeah. I think I have an idea,” the words slipped from her lips. “It’s not fair,” she said.
    “No. It’s not.”
    “Won’t you let me at least talk to my brother when we get back? See how he feels about us being together? If he is against it, I swear I’ll leave you alone.”
    He let out a long sigh. “I don’t know. I’ll think about it.”
    “Then me...us...tonight. If Brady doesn’t approve, I’ll probably never have an opportunity to be with you like this again. I swear, I won’t breathe a word about it to anyone. I would never betray you.”
    “I don’t doubt that, sugar.” He pulled her against him for a hug. “But that would only make things harder if Brady is against us being together, because I would feel as though I betrayed his trust.”
    “We’re adults. I’m an adult. I don’t have to ask my brother permission to sleep with someone.” She nuzzled against Landon’s chest then licked his nipple.
    He gasped then tilted his head and took her lips. The kiss was born of months of longing and pent up denial, a fiery release of bottled-up emotion that scorched her from head to toes. She