Working Man by Melanie Schuster

you’re a virgin again when we get to make love the first time. And you’re going to love every minute of it, just as much as I will,” he promised.
    Dakota tried to pull her eyes away from his, but it was impossible. “You sound pretty sure of yourself. What makes you think I’m going to let you put your hands on me? I don’t know you from Adam and I’m not trying to get to know you, either,” she said in a game attempt to put him in his place. His only answer was to kiss her, a soft gentle kiss that grew into the same kind of heated tempest that had overtaken them the night before. With a deep, shuddering sigh, Dakota put her arms around his neck and arched her body into his, letting the sweet passion take her where it would.
    His lips caressed hers, cajoled them and teased them until she opened her lips to receive the luscious tribute of his tongue. Somehow she ended up in his lap and her fingers were tangled in his curly hair as she returned his kisses with a fervor she didn’t know she possessed. The licking and sucking and nibbling might have lasted for hours but the tensions that were building wouldn’t allow it. Nick had to call a halt to their loving, gently pulling away from her eager mouth and holding her close against his heart until their breathing had slowed a little and he was able to speak. “Now what were you saying about putting my hands on you? You don’t seem to mind,” he teased her gently.
    Dakota put her face in the crook of his neck and inhaled his fragrance while his long, clever fingers massaged her breast through her shirt. “I think I’m supposed to be embarrassed right about now,” she murmured. “This is the part where I slap you silly and run out of the room.” She did no such thing; she just cuddled closer to him and played with the hair at the nape of his neck with her free hand.
    Nick laughed a deep comforting laugh that shook his whole frame. “Well I’m glad you’re not acting all shame-faced and girly because you have nothing to be ashamed of. We’re going to be together soon, Dakota. I’m not trying to rush you, but I believe in making things real plain. You’re going to be mine sooner or later, so you may as well get used to the idea now. I’m not going anywhere, baby, and neither are you.”
    Dakota rallied the last of her senses and raised her head to issue a protest at his cocky, overly-confident words. Instead, Nick fixed her with a look so warm and tender all she could do was part her lips for another kiss that was as sweet and thoroughly arousing as the first one. She could tell him off in just a minute but right now it didn’t make sense to waste a perfectly lovely kiss, she thought as she laced her fingers through his hair again and moaned softly while he continued his tender assault on her breasts with his long fingers. She gasped and her eyes flew open as she discovered that Nick Hunter was indeed a man of his word. He’d made good on his first promise to her and he was right, she hadn’t taken off one stitch of clothing. But he really had made her melt into his arms. Her last conscious thought was that Nick Hunter was not only dangerous, he was deadly and if she planned to stay intact she needed to stay far away from him.
    But not before they shared one more kiss…

Chapter 5
    T his time it was Dakota who ended the kiss, delicious as it was. She abruptly pushed Nick away and glared at him. “Looky here, buster. You need to find something else for your mouth to do because you can’t go around kissing me every time you take a notion. I told you before, I don’t know you from Adam and I’m not about to get involved with you or anyone else,” she said hotly.
    Her words might have carried more weight if she hadn’t been sitting in his lap letting him kiss each of her fingers in turn. He finished kissing her hand and leaned back on the sofa