Only because you're not accustomed to any woman calling a halt…but I am calling a halt. I'm not like your other women…I don't do casual,' Billie proclaimed with proud vehemence.
'The spark we fired between us is too hot to douse,' Alexei delivered thickly, dark golden eyes locked to her like an incoming missile attack, making it clear that nothing she had said had impressed him.
'It was just sex,' she argued. 'And sex you can get anywhere with women far more beautiful than I am, so forget it and me in that line!'
'While I can still taste you in my mouth,' Alexei murmured huskily, shooting her a shockingly sensual appraisal that burned through her like a hot burning coal. 'I won't forget how you made me ache.'
'Stop it…' Billie raised her hands to silence him in a rare physical show of eloquence. 'Stop it! It was a stupid kiss, a mistake, but it's not important and it's never going to happen again.'
Alexei stretched out his arms without warning and hauled her back to him, reconnecting her to the lean, tensile power of his muscular thighs and the potent thrust of his erection. Holding her entrapped, he stared down at her with all the cool of a predator stalking prey who knew he had all the time in the world. 'You can't tell me it's not going to happen again—that will only make me want you more.'
Awesomely conscious of the deep desperate longing still whirling inside her and crying out for satisfaction, Billie rested pleading green eyes on him. 'You know this is wrong. You know you would much rather have me working for you than having sex with you,' she told him feverishly.
'But having you fulfil both functions could well be an amazing tour de force,' Alexei countered with single-minded conviction. 'I would cut down on the other women.'