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Holy fuck, this woman was too much for me. I’d seriously struck jackpot. I was so intoxicated that if it meant proposing marriage to make her shut out the world so we could have some sexy time, I would do it. I would shackle myself to this luscious vet for the rest of my life and have no regrets.
None whatsoever.
Don’t you dare propose marriage for sex.
I swallowed hard. “Or I strip you while you’re standing there, all smug and haughty, and press you against the glass for the world to see.”
Her cheeks reddened. “You wouldn’t.”
“Wouldn’t I?” My eyes dropped to her jeans. “Try me, Ves. You don’t know what I’m capable of doing when a sexy-as-hell woman torments me.” Brushing my finger along her jaw, I whispered, “You have five seconds to get rid of Mrs. Nosy Parker.”
I kept my body against the wall, but I couldn’t stop my arm from being visible to peeping toms on the street.
“Vessie, is that your cousin touching you like that? Not very appropriate for a young, naked man of your relation to be so close,” Mrs. Lesley shouted from below. “Do you want me to call your parents, child? The police?”
Vesper bit her cheek to stop from laughing. “No, it’s okay, Mrs. Lesley. I’m just going to put him to bed. He’ll be fine in the morning.” Not waiting for a reply, she opened her arms, grabbed the sides of the curtains and ripped them closed. “Goodnight!”
The second we were blocked from view, I pounced. “About goddamn time. You’ll pay for that.” Wrapping my arms around her, I spun her around and slammed her against the wall, trapping her in daisy print. “Going to put me to bed, huh?”
She smiled. “Yep, like the naughty boy you are.”
“I think the naughty one here is you.” I kissed her nose, inhaling subtle perfume of vanilla and something floral.
“Me?” She pouted dramatically. “How so?”
“You called me your cousin. I think incest is frowned upon.”
Her face turned serious. “Believe me, if you were my cousin, I don’t think I’d have the willpower to turn you away based on a few drops of DNA.”
I froze, even as my cock grew impossibly harder. “You’re saying you want me that much? You’d break a few laws to have me?”
Her hand cupped the back of my neck, bringing my mouth to hers. “I’m saying I would break all the laws in the universe just to feel you inside me.”
“Shit, you are a naughty, filthy girl.”
She squealed as I picked her up and carried her to the couch. Throwing her down, I attacked her jeans, undoing the button and zipper and tearing them down her legs. “I can’t believe you’d sleep with your own cousin.”
“Not just any cousin.” She jabbed my chest with her foot as I turned my attention to removing her tank top. “Just you. And only for one night.”
I paused, unable to tear my eyes away from her dressed in a black lace bra and panties. “Hold up. Just one night?”
She nodded. “Just once.”
“You wound me.”
“Hey! You’re my cousin. I’m allowed to be reckless once and put it down to bad decisions. But to do it again? Not allowed.”
I reached out and cupped her breast, caressing my thumb over her nipple. “Good job that in this scenario, I’m not your damn cousin.”
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
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Vesper
THE TEASING AND MRS. LESLEY dissolved.
Ryder switched from playboy to fiend.