Chapter 21

Suddenly, she lifted her sultry blue gaze to him. “Need something?”

A loaded question. Yes! In fact, he feared he’d gone beyond wanting her to needing her.

Luc drew in a shaky breath. No. He just needed to get laid. His sex drive had finally reasserted itself after Kimber and Deke’s decision to become a couple—and exclude him. Alyssa just happened to be the first female in a fifty-foot radius.

Except . . . if he’d met her yesterday and she looked like she’d be the sort of mother he had in mind, he would have hustled her into bed and into a relationship as fast as he possibly could. He didn’t just want her; he was beginning to like her. And that made her all the more dangerous.

Nor did her pretty pink nipples, hard and bobbing on the water’s surface, help clear his thoughts.

“Alyssa, don’t do this to me.” God, he barely recognized his own voice. “Please.”

She raised a brow at him, dragged the loofah across one breast, over her nipple, licked her lips, and