Chapter 20

His fingers went to her buttons, and she half-expected him to just tear them free, sending most of them scattering. But he was very careful as he freed them to reveal her shift. He used the same care on the thin buttons of her bodice before his hands pushed past the material to seek the warmth of her breasts.

Her head dropped back against his chest, her eyes fluttering shut. Fire arced through her as he circled first one pebbled nipple and then the other. She barely felt Leon’s hands pulling at her garments, or the careful cup of his fingers around her ankle as he slipped her boots off. It was too hard to think with one man’s hands on her. Two was impossible.

“Lord, she’s pretty.” Leon’s soft exclamation came with a tickle up the front of her thigh. “Look at her, Kenny. I’m beginning to think busting my ankle was the best thing that ever happened to us.”