Boiling Point by Mia Watts Page A

Jacking-off-in-the-shower-man?”
    “Are you kidding? Risk the opportunity to see you getting so turned on by me, when you think I don’t know that you have to rub your sexy little cunt until you liquefy with pleasure?”
    “Must have been an eyeful,” she agreed tightly.
    “Every second,” he agreed, closing the distance between them.
    Cooper got to his knees in front of her, pulling her hips to him as he kissed her chest through her thin cotton shirt. Fauna took his head in her hands. She tilted his face up.
    “You should have told me.”
    Cooper’s expression grew serious. “I did tell you who and what I was. You got upset with me, and I was busily defending myself and our relationship. Then you gave me the silent treatment, and there were showers.” At the last, his eyes twinkled in memory.
    “I still should have known. You should have tried to tell me.”
    “You’re not giving me a lot of room for explanation, Fauna. I’ll tell you anything you want to know.” He smiled brilliantly. “Do you want to know what I see when you disappear?”
    She caught her bottom lip. This seemed too easy. Why does it feel like a seduction?
    “Yes,” she answered simply. “Can all elementals see me?”
    “Air, earth, and water can’t. Only another fire elemental can see you because our existence relies on heat and sources of heat.”
    His hands slid under the hem of her shirt.
    She pushed them away. “That was accidental sex in there. I have a lot to think about before the possibility of that ever happens again.”
    He looked at her hopefully. “At least there’s a possibility. That’s more than I had thirty minutes ago.”
    He looked so adorable on his knees in front of her, looking up with that bright smile. “When you disappear, I see you as though you’ve been dipped in molten gold. You glow so brightly, it’s as though you are a mini-sun. Your body radiates heat. You blush and that golden color changes between lava red and swirling white.”
    He stroked her cheek. “But the most beautiful thing about it is that seeing you is just as much about feeling the heat your body generates. You aren’t just visual, Fauna. Your heat tingles the edges of my skin, buffeting against the fine hairs on my arm like the lapping waves of a warm sea.
    “You’re gorgeous. I know exactly where your body heats. Exactly where it wants to be touched. Exactly how close you are to orgasm. I know when and how I turn you on by the flow of heat to your erogenous zones, and I know that you heat for me and only me.
    He smiled wickedly. “Like right now,” he said, his eyes drifting between her thighs.
    Fauna pressed her thighs firmly together. She licked her lips, trying to moisten them, but failed. Her composure was nearly shot, and goddamnit, she could hardly catch a breath.
    Did he really see her like that? It sounded amazing. Like she was a glowing goddess, and the way he looked at her only reaffirmed that. Her annoyance faded.
    “You can sleep in the bed. Cooper?” She waited until she was sure she had his attention. She stroked his cheek with the back of her fingers. “I need time. Don’t push me right now, okay? I just need—to soak it all in. Figure it all out.”
    Cooper got to his feet. He dropped a kiss on her forehead. “I can’t say it’s going to be easy, but I promise to give you whatever time you need.”
    She nodded her thanks. “We have a big night tonight. The Plexiglas will have been installed by the time we get back to the lab, and there are some last details I need to program. I’ll need your help on that, especially if we’re trying to keep out non-humans.”
    “Then I recommend sleep.”

 
     
     
     
    Chapter Seven
     
     
    Cooper awoke first. The air around him had cooled by two degrees, and though a human might not notice such a thing, he did. It was as though his cells told him it was night time. There wasn’t a better alarm clock.
    He leaned over, looking at Fauna’s sweet face. Her black