Read Online Dazzled by Silver by Lacey Silks - Free Book Online Page B

mine. He held me against him like he’d never let go, swaying to the slow music.
    How in the world did he manage to make me feel so secure and needed? Besides Kevin, no other man had ever grasped my heart and held on to it as if he were holding on for his own life. But then again I never allowed anyone to affect me this way. Gabe dazzled me beyond what I could have ever imagined. I felt hypnotized. The ease with which his body welcomed my touches and returned each gesture left me boneless. It was what I’d longed for during the two years I’d dated Casey.
    I feared what would happen if I slipped and opened up to Gabe, and for that reason I couldn’t treat this as more than it was: a temporary fling. I wasn’t ready to fall apart again.
    Above us, a performer wearing glow-in-the-dark body paint swung in the air. The ropes had been lowered just enough for her feet to skim over the crowd. To the right, an aerial dancer wound hanging silks around her arms and legs, bending in ways only acrobats could. Yet when I looked at Gabe, I found his eyes trained on me.
    The music continued, but Gabe stood still. The pace of his breathing evened with mine. He slid his hands along my arms. A heavy smell of cinnamon spice filled the air.
    The loud music seemed to fade. I lifted my palms to his heaving chest. The dancing mob turned into a quiet hum.
    Gabe leaned in closer.
    I closed my eyes. When our lips touched, the dance club disappeared from my mind. Enclosed in our own bubble, his hands supported my back. My arms wrapped around his neck, and I pressed into him. The trembling I’d felt in my limbs earlier ceased as my flesh moved against his.
    The kiss disoriented me. His firm lips were much softer than before, controlling and inviting at the same time. It was as if this was our first kiss, even though it wasn’t.
    His hands grazed the top of my naked back, tickling my spine. I responded with a soft moan.
    He finally pulled away, saying, “I’d like to show you something.”
    I didn’t know what to say. He could have asked me to jump into a fire with him, and I would have. I couldn’t breathe, speak or move. This man was like a magician, and I was under his spell.
    “Would you like something to drink first?” he asked.
    I blinked twice, and Gabe led me toward the bar.
    “Orgasm?” he asked seriously.
    I rolled my eyes, but realized that, at the mere mention of an orgasm, my thighs tensed and a delightful ache between my legs demanded attention.
    He ordered another club soda then looked back at me. “Sex on the beach?”
    “Promises, promises,” I teased.
    “I’m a man of my word, Samantha.” Then he turned to the barman, “We’ll be upstairs, Chris.”
    “Yes, Mr. Silver.”
    “Come.” He took my hand.
    Upstairs? For a moment I wondered whether he would take me into Kendra’s bedroom, but we turned toward the other end of the club. Gabe placed his wrist near an electronic box by a door marked employees only . The bracelet he wore beeped, and a green light flashed on the box.
    “Where are we going?” I was intrigued as we stepped through the doorway.
    “I promised to be by your side until dawn, and I intend to make every minute count.”
    My blood warmed with excitement.
    At the end of the hall we walked up a staircase. The music in the club faded, and each metal step echoed as we climbed. Gabe pushed open the door at the top. A warm blast of night air slammed into me, and the hum of the club disappeared. Only quiet music and a few mingling conversations resonated as we stepped out onto the wooden surface of a rooftop lounge.
    My breath stilled. The lit skyscrapers around us formed a twinkling wall.
    “This is the rooftop?” The small space wasn’t anything like the gardens Kendra had described. The area was much smaller and more intimate than I had imagined. And where were all the people I heard?
    “Sort of. Watch this.” He guided me forward, took out his cell phone and clicked a button. White strings of