Wrong Side Girl (The Girl Series Book 1) by Julia Goda Read Free Book Online Page B

eyes and took a deep breath through my nose, trying to tamp down my instant arousal.
    Jesus! I had never been this turned on by a dress. Or anything for that matter.
    She was going to be my undoing.
    Breathing in and out slowly, I rested my forehead on her shoulder.
    “Cole?” Lizzy’s soft and amused voice called me. I lifted my head to see that hers was turned and she was looking at me over her shoulder. Her eyes were beautiful and sparkling, the green surrounded by thick lashes.
    “Don’t let me come in tonight,” I all but growled at her.
    “What?” she asked, confused now.
    “Don’t let me come in, no matter how much I beg. I promised myself I wouldn’t touch you tonight and I need you to help me out with that.”
    “You won’t touch me tonight?” Disappointment. This was gonna be harder than I had imagined. I deserved a medal for this.
    I shook my head at her.
    “Oh.” Her voice was small now and she turned her head away from me to finish locking up. Something other than disappointment was laced through her voice. Was it rejection? With my hands still at her hips, I turned her body to face mine and looked into her eyes, searching. Yes, she thought I was rejecting her. Crazy woman.
    “Honey, I’m not rejecting you.” I gave her a small peck on the lips in reassurance then kept my lips touching hers. “Believe me, I want you more than I have ever wanted anyone. My body is screaming at me to take you.” To emphasize this I pressed the proof of my body’s reaction to her into her belly. “But I need to prove to you that this isn’t just about sex. It’s so much more than that. It’s everything.” I kissed her again, short and quick, so as not to lose control. “When I take you for the first time, I want you to have no doubts about us.” Another kiss, this one longer and deeper.
    “Okay,” she breathed when I released her mouth. It was cute. She was in kind of a daze and it looked good on her. I reveled in the fact that I had been the one to put my little no-nonsense-spitfire into this state with just a few kisses and some frontal body contact. My chuckle seemed to snap her out of her daze and she took a small step back.
    “You’re right. You know I trust you, but it’s probably a good idea to take things slow, give either of us a chance to back out if things aren’t going the way we expected before we ruin something that’s important to us.”
    What the hell! There would be no backing out!
    I closed the short distance she had gained and framed her face with my hands, so that all she could see were my eyes.
    “I’m not backing out. Neither are you. I won’t let you. All I’m doing is giving you time to get used to us before I take what has always been mine. Get this, Liz, if you run from me, I will follow you and drag you right back where you belong, and we will work out whatever it is that made you run.” My voice was rough and growly. The thought of her backing out, of leaving me, had me shaking.
    Lizzy’s eyes had gone big at my statement, and I could see she was gearing up to give me the what for. My little spitfire.
    “Excuse me? You won’t let me? You’ll drag me back? What? You’re a goddamn caveman now?” Yeah, from soft and breathy to hot and spitting fire in under five seconds. That’s my Liz. I grinned at her.
    “You heard me.”
    She narrowed her eyes to slits and opened her mouth to blast me, but I stopped her by putting my mouth to hers and sliding my tongue inside that hot mouth. God, she tasted good. I wondered if the rest of her tasted just as great as her mouth, knowing and fearing that she would probably taste better than anything that had ever touched my tongue. I couldn’t get enough and delved in deeper, tangling and twisting and exploring. This was all the exploring I would get tonight, so I made it last.
    When I tore my mouth from hers, we were both breathing hard.
    Jesus! But she could kiss!
    She was again in that daze and was staring at my mouth, her