The Main Attraction by Jayne Ann Krentz Read Free Book Online

you.“
    „Trent…“
    But his fingers were already sliding beneath the fabric of her dress at the shoulders. With a smooth, easy movement, he tugged the front of the gown downward, sliding the jersey sleeves to her wrists and the once demure neckline almost to her waist.
    Filomena gasped in startled dismay. It had happened too quickly, leaving her exposed and vulnerable long before she had made the decision herself. She pulled back but discovered she was bound, her hands trapped in her dress sleeves. Her widening eyes flew to his.
    „Take it easy, honey. You know I’m not going to hurt you.“ Trent caught her wrists and began easing her hands free. His eyes roved over her bared breasts, and just before he released her wrists, he bent his head to drop a featherlight kiss on one budding nipple.
    Another shiver of desire went through Filomena. Nervous tension followed in its wake. „Trent, this has gone far enough,“ she began in a soft, throaty voice that she knew betrayed her clouded emotions.
    „I just want to touch you.“
    His tone was heavy with desire, but Filomena could feel the control he had on himself. She was as safe as she wanted to be. The knowledge only added to the sensation of walking a high wire. When his fingertips cupped her small, rounded breasts and grazed lightly across the nipples, she moaned.
    And then her hands were free, and instead of pushing herself away and recovering her dress, Filomena found herself clinging to Trent. She buried her hot face against his shoulder and closed her eyes as excitement rippled through her.
    „I knew it would be like this,“ Trent whispered roughly. „Ever since you arrived two weeks ago, I’ve known. Every time I’ve looked at you, I’ve ached because I realized what it would be like. I don’t know how I waited this long.“
    „Oh, Trent…“
    „Hush. Just relax and let it happen. It’s going to happen, you know.“
    „Not tonight.“
    „If not tonight, then another night. It might as well be now.“
    Desperately she struggled to resist the compelling quality of his voice. She summoned up an image of her parents who would be slyly watching the clock to see how long it took Trent and their daughter to get home. „My family. They saw us leave right behind them. If we’re not home soon, they’ll know – “
    „They’ll know what? That we stopped off along the way? Why should they be surprised? They realize we don’t have much privacy at the lodge. They’ll understand.“ His big hands were moving luxuriously over her, savoring the shape of her.
    „Trent, I am not going to have everyone thinking that the first time I was alone with you I let you seduce me!“
    „Why should you care what they think?“ He was running his fingers around her waist now, moving lower until he found the curve of her buttocks. He cupped her and squeezed gently. „You’re twenty-eight years old, and vou’ve made certain everyone knows you’re a big girl now. You can do what you want.“
    „Exactly,“ she managed, struggling for a measure of common sense. „And what I want is not to have everyone leering at me around the breakfast table tomorrow morning. I hardly know you, and I am not about to let you seduce me tonight in the front seat of a car.“
    „How about the back seat?“ He nuzzled her ear beneath a fall of thick red hair. „God, you smell good.“
    „Trent, stop it.“ But she could already feel the change in him. There was a thread of good-humored resignation in his voice now. He wasn’t going to push her any harder tonight.

    „You’re only postponing the inevitable, and I think you know it,“ he told her softly as he released her and assisted her back into her dress.
    „No, I do not know that,“ she said tartly as she adjusted her clothing. „I don’t know that at all. I didn’t come home to have a summer fling with one of my parents’ paying guests.“
    „Is there someone in Seattle?“
    „There are lots of someones in