She rubbed her breasts against his chest, wishing she could feel his mouth around her hard nipples, tugging and suckling.
With a groan, he drew back, grasping hold of her face between his hands when she would have followed him.
“Easy, baby girl. Here isn’t the place to take this any further.”
Her heart was racing. She stared around, forgetting where they were for a moment.
His office. Work.
Right, bad idea to continue this. Bad, bad idea. But oh, she wanted to.
Duke grinned at her and she groaned as she realized she’d said that out lord.
Jeez, Sunny way to act cool and sophisticated.
Hmm, probably that ship sailed a while ago anyway.
“Damn, baby girl. I’ve been wanting to do that ever since the night I came home to find you mowing my lawn.
She frowned. “Why were you so grumpy that night?”
He sighed and cupped the side of her face. “For one, I’d had a bad day and I just wanted to be alone and have some peace and quiet.”
“Oh.” She winced; she hadn’t even thought about the fact that she might be disturbing him.
“For another, I thought you’d opened my mail.”
“I didn’t!”
“I believe you, Sunshine.”
She rolled her eyes at her full name.
“And lastly, I’m a pretty private person. I have the club and the shop and that’s it. I don’t like people in my business, on my property who I don’t know.”
She nibbled her lip. “I didn’t even think about that, I’m sorry.”
He ran his thumb along her bottom lip, freeing it. “And now, I’m also upset because you went onto someone’s property, by yourself, without knowing who I was. I could have been dangerous. I could have hurt you. Not acceptable, Sunny.”
She winced. “Is that a rule?”
“It most definitely is. One that will result in a harsh punishment if you break it.”
“But we weren’t together then, so I can’t be punished now, right? And besides, it was your property and you’re not any of those things.”
“That’s beside the point. But I’m not going to punish you for that.”
“I don’t think it will be a problem in the future, I don’t anticipate trying to mow anyone else’s lawn.”
He narrowed his gaze. “I won’t always be around to watch you. So I want you to start thinking first before getting into these situations. Don’t do anything that might put you in danger, because I’m not going to be at all happy if you do.”
“Jeez, that seems to cover a lot.”
He just raised his eyebrows. “Just keep yourself safe and we’ll both be happy.”
“I’ll try.”
“Good. There will be more rules. We’ll deal with those later. For now, we have your punishment to take care of.”