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  He was a dangerous male in and out of the bedroom. Holly knew all this and that still didn’t persuade her not to lose her heart to him. If she did sleep with him she would risk showing him that he meant more to her than just a one-night stand. Did that scare her? Shit yeah it scared her, because a risk like that could ultimately cost her every chance she could ever have with him. Nevertheless, she could no longer ignore the ache that was so deeply imbedded within her for him. It never failed to rise to the surface whenever he was around. Her ache couldn’t be fulfilled by just any other male. It had to be Travis Kane who satisfied the need within her. She needed him to ease that ache and she wanted him to conquer her so thoroughly it left her breathless and panting his name begging him for more.

  Throwing back the glass of champagne in one gulp, the drink immediately went to her head. She felt less uptight and a hell of a lot looser. Deciding to take a gamble and risk dancing on her own again, Holly pushed her way through the crowd to get to an empty spot on the dance floor. She only stopped for a brief chat with those who blocked her path.

  She finally managed to make her way back onto the dance floor several minutes later after chatting to every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the room. Raising her arms in the air, she spun slowly around in a circle while shaking her booty. Travis Kane was close by. She could feel his lustful gaze tracking her every movement. Knowing this, Holly was resolute in putting on a little show for him. She would tease him with her sexy moves, just like he teased her with his sensual words.

  Little by little, she let one of her hands travel down the front of her body to the hem of her dress. Gripping the silky black material with her fingertips, she very slowly dragged it up inch by torturous inch until she was flashing his watchful gaze a hint of the red garter belt she wore high on her thigh. Her other hand tossed her loose auburn locks around her shoulders. Her body undulated to the heavy beats of the music blaring around her. Over and over she taunted him and all the other men around her with her moves.

  Untangling her hand from her hair a few songs later, Holly let her hand drift down to her breasts. She cupped one for the briefest of seconds, allowing her thumb to lightly graze across her hard nipple. She held in the moan wanting out from the sensations stabbing at her hard little buds, a sensation that ran all the way down to her clit.

  As the song came to an end, she heard the faintest of male growls and chanced a look in Travis’s direction. Oh yeah, she was putting on one hell of a show for him, and she would bet that if she kept this up he would be up here with her in less than five minutes, if he lasted that long. Sniggering to herself, she raised her hand to toss her hair back again.

  Out of the corner of her eye she saw the crowd part and knew Travis was coming to stake his claim on her. Hiding her knowing smile from him, she turned slowly in a circle. Letting her dress fall back down into place, her hands travelled seductively up her body then around her neck to lift the hair gathered at her nape. Lifting her heated gaze to his, she gave him a slow, sexy wink then lowered her eyes to the floor. She shifted her body side to side in time to the sexually explicit R & B song currently playing and waited for him to approach her.

  Chapter Three

  Holly had to control her own raging hormones building within her at the feel of Travis’s arms circling her waist. She had to fight the urge to not moan from the brush of his hot breath against her flushed skin. He didn’t say anything to her for long moments. He just danced with her. His hands did most of the talking for him. They slowly edged their way down to the V between her legs. His touch was both warming and seducing.

  Whatever he wanted from her, Holly was more than aware that her natural instinct was to concede to his every demand. She was of two minds though. Should she give in and grant him what he wanted from her, or should she continue to deny herself a chance of really knowing what it was like to be with a man that could make every other man before him seem less than average in the bedroom department?

  She had no control left inside of her to fight against the overwhelming need to be taken by him. She was his tonight, no doubt about it. Holly had known it as soon as he uttered that dark promise to her earlier in the evening. Oh god, this was it. She was going to have to stop fighting and give in to the dangerous desires he represented to her and every other woman in the room.

  Lifting her arms up, she wrapped them around his neck to lock him to her. She could feel his hardening length pressing into her lower back as she moved with him. Their seductive little dance wasn’t going unnoticed by the other coworkers in the room. At this point in time, Holly didn’t care what they saw or didn’t see because right now nothing else concerned her other than Travis and his devastating touch.

  Turning slowly around in his arms she came face-to-face with the man who seemed to know exactly what she wanted and how he alone could give it to her. Her stare lingered on his hard male lips. His lips were like a wicked treat she hadn’t had the pleasure of a tasting yet. And she wanted a taste. God, did she want a taste of them. She found herself wondering if he would try to dominate the kiss if his lips meshed with hers. Or would his kiss be slow and sensual to build up the flames of desire within her?

  Holly was desperate to find out. Licking her lips to moisten them, she reached up on the tips of her toes while he gazed down at her, watching her every movement through hooded eyes. His dark amber eyes were heated with his own arousal and she wondered briefly if her own eyes reflected her lust and longing for him.

  His strong hands tightened at her hips, holding her to him while their lips moved in closer to each other’s. Her arms, still entwined around his neck, drew him down nearer to her, forcing him to concede some of the power he had over her. Her lips were only an inch or less away from his when someone bumped into her, causing Holly lose her footing. Suddenly her lips were nowhere near close enough to his. She almost groaned from being oh-so close to having his taste on her lips.

  She spun around to growl at the person who had interrupted them, only to stop when she saw a waiter with a tray filled with champagne flutes for the upcoming speeches. Crap, she totally had forgotten about the speeches that were starting at nine o’clock. Hell, she hadn’t even noticed that the music had stopped and everyone around them was staring at them instead of at the stage set up at the edge of the dance floor for the directors and the chairman of the company to address the employees.

  Holly could feel the warmth of her blush rising to her face as she glanced up quickly at Travis. She could see he was amused by the fact that he had distracted her enough that she had absolutely no idea what was going on around her. She scowled up at him only for him to return it with one of his own.

  He then reached around her and grabbed two glasses of champagne from the waiter and lifted one crystal flute to her lips. Slowly he tipped the glass up so she could take a small sip. The champagne bubbles burst to life on her tongue as she swallowed it down. He then held the glass out for her to take from his hand. Her hand shook slightly as it brushed against his. Holly realized then that she either needed to remove herself from his clutches or else they both needed to make a quiet exit out of the room so they could find some place secluded enough to continue on where they were so rudely interrupted from moments ago.

  Chapter Four

  The speeches were finally wrapping up about thirty minutes later and the live band was heading back up on stage. Travis turned Holly around to face him. Looking deep into her eyes he hoped that she would accept his proposition and not knock him back like she usually did. He couldn’t handle her rejection tonight, not after the way her body had responded so effortlessly toward him. “Come with me, Holly, up to the hotel suite I have booked for the night. I promise to make it worth your while.” He said the last part to her with his eyes roaming freely down the length of her body. Travis noted the way Holly tried not to squirm under the heat of his gaze while she pretended to consider his offer.

  “So you just assumed I would accompany you up to your room did you, Mr. Kane? Is th
at why you booked the hotel suite? That just goes to show you how little you know about me then, doesn’t it?” she replied with a hint of flirtatiousness lingering in her voice.

  “Oh, I know you all right, Miss Shepherd,” He smiled darkly at her when she shivered against him. “I know that even now you’re thinking about how quickly we can make our escape out of this blessed event. I can tell you that in less than sixty seconds you will be following me out to the elevators in the lobby.” He leaned in then and whispered the rest into her ear for only her to hear. “If you think you have a choice in this, think again. I told you earlier on, Holly, that you will be mine tonight. You had a chance to leave then to make your escape, but instead you stuck around here because you needed to feel me deep inside you. You want to know what it’s like to be taken by a real man. You want to be taken to the darkest depths of your own passion, something you have always longed for but probably never been able to achieve. I can take you there, Holly. I can give you all that and more,” he promised her.

  Her breathing hitched in her throat when he linked his fingers with hers. He then pulled her through the crowd and out into the lobby area of the hotel. Sensing her wariness at the power he held over her, Travis rubbed his thumb over the pulse point on her wrist to help calm her nerves. He knew she wanted this, whatever this was. All they had to do was take a chance on one another and just see where the night took them. After all he did promise her a chance to lose herself to the dark passions he could arouse within her. The same ones he knew she kept hidden from every other male before him.

  Travis watched Holly swallow nervously when they stepped up to the glass elevator. He had completely forgotten that one of her greatest fears was falling, and having a fully see-through elevator probably wasn’t helping to calm those same fears of hers down. After sensing her hesitation in getting in to the elevator with him, Travis tugged on her hand and pulled her in close to his taut frame. With his arms wrapped low around her waist, he held her tightly against him. His hands rested on the cheeks of her ass. He smirked when he felt her tremble against him. The heat from his touch was making her forget all about that fear of hers and forced her to concentrate only on his touch. “Close your eyes, Holly, and just feel me. We will be at the room in no time at all.” He allowed his voiced drift over her as she closed her eyes and rested her head onto his chest. His cock went instantly hard from inhaling the soft scents of rose and vanilla from the perfume lingering on her skin and in her hair. . .

  With his large hands roaming freely over the cheeks of her ass, the elevator began to steadily rise up to their floor. His heated caress caused her nipples to poke out through the bodice of her sexy little black dress she wore and were inadvertently stabbing him in the chest. One of his hands slid lower to the hem of her dress and slowly gathered the material up until it revealed her upper thigh. Her skin felt warm beneath his touch.

  Knowing Holly had completely forgotten about her fears as she lost herself to his teasing touch, it also meant there was a good chance that she also overlooked the fact that anyone standing in the hotel lobby could see what he was doing to her. Travis glanced over her shoulder at the few people who had gathered in the hotel lobby to witness their intimate display. He smirked down at their admirers as he continued to slide his hand further up the back of her leg. His fingertips swept over the lacy garter belt she had on her upper thigh.

  While his fingers played with the lacy trim of her garter belt, he groaned into her ear. “Baby girl, do you know what these sexy little things do to me?”

  “No.”

  “Well, you’re about two seconds away from finding out.” Travis then proceeded to grind his hips into hers, showing her the evidence of his arousal. He had to force back the urge to groan again when Holly tried to squirm against his hardened length. The hand on her ass tightened, halting her movements altogether. Just when she looked set to ask him something, the elevator doors pinged, announcing that they had reached the fourth floor. Slowly Holly uncurled herself from his grasp and stepped out into the hallway. A small smile curved at her lips when she noticed the tent he was sporting in the front of his suit pants.

  “You think this is funny, sweet darlin’, that I’m this hard for you already.” He cupped his hard cock in his hand. “You won’t think this is so funny when I shove my big, hard cock deep inside of you, I can assure you of that.”

  Holly blushed immediately at hearing the bluntness of his words. He watched in fascination as the pulse on the side of her neck accelerated at the sight of him cupping himself with his hand. Yes, it was a wicked act for him to do in front of her and to say such crude things to her also, but he couldn’t resist taunting her the way she had taunted him by eyeing off his cock. She probably had no idea how much he wanted to feel that sweet, wet heat of hers surrounding him when he buried himself deep inside that most feminine part of her body. She had been fighting his charm and his advances for so long now Travis couldn’t wait any longer to conquer the untamed need he could see rising within her and sensed it rising within himself, too.

  Holly quickly grasped his hand when he moved toward her and asked him for the quickest way to get to his room.

  “Straight ahead, fifth door on your left should be room 422.” She then basically started dragging him in that direction as soon as the answer left his lips. Travis couldn’t help but chuckle at her eagerness to get to the room. He allowed her to drag him down the hallway for a bit then suddenly pulled up short on her hand, stopping her abruptly. Before Holly could question him, Travis had her back against the wall as his lips came crashing down on hers in a hard and fast kiss. He made sure that his lips overwhelmed her just like she did to him every fucking time he got close to her. His lips moved effortlessly over hers, drowning her in his passion he held for her. He wanted to suck her under a wave of lust so powerful she would find it hard to control the devastating need rising within her. Travis wanted and needed Holly to feel the same intense desire that coursed throughout him. He was so desperate to take her there that he would do whatever it took to get her to feel exactly what he felt right now. His need for her was so strong the strength of it astounded him sometimes.

  As he continued to control the intensity of their kiss, his tongue swept over the seam of her lips, seeking entry into her mouth. Holly granted him entry and parted her lips for him. Their tongues duelled as their lips sipped and nipped at each other’s. His grip tightened on her hips at the feel of her body slipping from his grasp. The heated passion he was forcing her to accept from him must have made her knees weak. He wanted to clap himself on the back for having that kind of power to bring his woman to her knees. All he had done was simply caress her soft, feminine lips with his more masculine ones.

  Reaching up, he tangled his fingers into her long auburn locks, drawing her in closer to him. Holly sighed against his lips as he continued to ravish them. He then wrapped himself around her like a cosy warm blanket on a cool winter’s day, caging her in against the wall. Only he wasn’t a soft, fluffy blanket, he was more like a taut, uncompromising one that came with its very own rock-hard bulge that pushed into the softness of her lower belly.

  His lips moved against hers in a pace that was guaranteed to make her head spin and definitely left her grasping for air when he gradually raised his head from hers. After tucking her under his arm, Travis casually strolled down the long hallway to room 422, all the while knowing his kisses left her panting and all aroused after taking her lips so thoroughly with his. “God help her when he finally takes her,” he thought he heard Holly whisper quietly to herself.

  Chapter Five

  As soon as the door to the suite was closed, they both had their hands on each other's bodies, trying to dispose of one another’s clothing as quickly as they could. Travis shrugged out of his suit jacket and let it fall to the floor then his lips came down hard onto hers again. Holly was almost panting and they had barely even started getting naked. Reaching up, she began loosening the tie he wore around his neck, wh
ile his hands worked the zipper down on the back of her black satin cocktail dress.

  The whole undressing thing was set at a frantic pace but it needed to be an unhurried one. They both needed to draw out the torture of seeing each other’s nakedness for the first time. Stepping back from him, Holly told him to take a seat on the edge of the bed and watch her. He didn’t appear to be too happy that they had stopped getting naked. Undeterred by his reluctance, Holly wasn’t about to be swayed by him. She wanted this night to last for as long as it could. She wanted him to take his time in exploring her body and she wanted to take her time doing the same to him. Yeah, they were both probably a little riled up for the little strip tease she was planning on doing. That wasn’t about to stop her. She was determined to put on a show for him.

  Waiting for him to get comfortable on the bed, Holly took her time in looking over the hotel suite he had booked for the night. It was a pretty top-notch room and was decorated in creamy linens with matching furnishings and painted walls. There were two large black-and-white canvas prints of a couple in a naked embrace, which was both erotic and beautiful, hanging on the wall above the large king-size bed that occupied one side of the suite. A small sofa and chaise faced the bay windows that overlooked the city, on the other side of the room. Holly bet the view was stunning both during the day and at night when the curtains were drawn back. There was also a large marble bathroom to the left of the bedroom area and a tiny kitchenette off to the side of the sitting area. All in all, the suite was striking and showed her that Travis Kane had taste. Albeit expensive taste, but taste nonetheless.

  Hearing the rumble of his voice telling her he was ready for her, Holly turned her attention back to him. She could plainly see how ready he was for her. He had his white shirt unbuttoned down the front, baring his chiselled chest and torso to her, while his black tie hung loose around his neck. The bulge in his black suit pants was even more evident as he leaned back on his elbows and stared up at her, waiting for her to do her thing. He really was living up to that persona of his with the way he looked right now. Sex god, yep that was him to a T. Seeing a stereo system near the chaise, Holly kicked off her three-inch black peep-toe heels and padded over to it and turned it on. The soft hum of music filled the air and gave her something to striptease to. Swaying her hips from side to side, she made her way over to the bed to stand just in front of Travis. Gazing down into his eyes, she began running her hands gradually over her breasts, tweaking her nipples to hard points with her thumb and forefinger. His growl of approval echoed around the room and made her pussy drip in want and need for him.