harsh, so turned on it was all he could do not to plunge into her and let himself go. Her eyes were still closed; she frowned slightly, as if in confusion, arched so a breast spilled from the thin cotton.
Last straw. He pulled his fingers gently from her, knelt on the bed and grabbed his cock, manipulating it swiftly, watching her, focusing on her body, on her full breasts, on the way her nipples were still upright, pulling the areola close around them, then down to her waist, lower to where her dark curls lay, so recently against his chin…
On the edge and starting to feel like a pervert voyeur, he closed his eyes, imagining her sex still underneath his mouth.
He stifled a groan, held his other hand at the ready, and came into it in strong hot bursts, the image of her body burned into his memory so deeply this time he was sure if he lived to be one hundred, it would never be erased.
Wow. He pursed his lips, exhaled. Wow.
“Debbie.”
No response. He smiled, got off the bed and headed for the bathroom. This had been an unusual, er, episode, unexpected and slightly twisted. But for some reason he was hurrying through his cleanup, anxious to get back to her. Was that the ultimate guy thing? Feeling warm and affectionate toward a woman who couldn’t talk back? Who wasn’t even conscious? Didn’t they make some movie about a guy in love with a sex doll?
Nice. He chuckled, washed his hands, drank a paper cup of water, found a bottle of generic ibuprofen for a headache that wasn’t all that bad, then noticed tiny printing in permanent marker—Joe’s pills.
Never mind.
In the room, he covered Debbie carefully and crawled in beside her, hoping when she woke up she remembered who he was and why she was here. Because he was about ninety-nine percent sure that in the morning he’d want to do it all again and more, this time with her full erotic participation.
ALANA SMILED, awake, but only barely, and not nearly ready to open her eyes yet. Mmm. She’d slept like a log, and what a won-derful dream. An incredibly sexy stranger had gone down on her right here in her bed. She could remember so clearly the warm feel of his tongue and the insistent push of his fingers inside her. The guy knew exactly what he was doing. She’d love to meet someone like that in real life, no offense to Sam, her old boyfriend, who wasn’t big on, um, oral traditions.
The imagined feeling had been so amazing and so vivid she’d actually climaxed. Usually when she was aroused in a dream she’d get ri-i-ight to the brink, then wake up before the final rush, frustrated and horny. But last night, mmm, no problem all the way from A to Z. If that’s what those new sleeping pills did, she’d take them every night.
She managed to get her eyes open a slit, enough to see sunshine pouring in around the shades in her old room. She used to lie here as a child and imagine herself—
Her body went rigid.
Oh my God.
Someone just moved behind her.
Hardly daring to breathe, she turned over…
Gah! She flung herself over the edge of the mattress, turned and stared, panting, hand to her chest. There was a man in her bed. God, last night…what…how could she…who…
She dragged the spread from the bed and wrapped it around herself. The blood rushed from her head; she bent over before she passed out, keeping her forehead low.
What. The. Heck.
Was that not a dream?
She was going to be sick.
Had a complete stranger actually taken advantage of her while she was asleep?
She coughed a few times to get the blood solidly back in her brain, then raised her head slowly and carefully, forcing her breath down deep so she wouldn’t hyperventilate.
Bastard. Whoever he was…
“Hey.” She gave the mattress a good kick to jiggle Prince Not-At-All Charming awake. “Hey.”
His eyes opened. She kicked the mattress again. He turned and squinted in annoyance. “Why are you kicking my bed?”
“This is my bed.”
“Uh.” He looked around in confusion. “I don’t…”
“Who are you?”
He stared as if she’d lost her mind, then shook his head. “Oh, no. You did have that drink.”
“Whah?”
“The one you told me not to have, Phil’s ’specialty of the house.’ It does something to your brain.”
She stared blankly. Oh my God. A complete psycho. Clearly one of Melanie’s friends. “I was not drinking last night.”
“The bachelor party for Dan? Thrown by my brother, Finn Kern?”
“I don’t know anyone named—”
“We talked for a long while.” His eyes narrowed. He had the gall to look her up and down. “Though, actually, you do look different than I remember.”
“I have no idea who you are.”
“Sawyer Kern? Ring any bells?”
“Sawyer!?” She gasped, practically inflating with outrage on her sister’s behalf. This…this predator was Melanie’s The One? The guy who was different from all the rest?
“I guess you do remember.”
“You…you’re Melanie’s…”
His eyes narrowed. “You know Melanie?”
“I’m her sister.” Oh, Melanie. Alana had been stupid enough to hope this guy would be different.
“Alana?” He hoisted himself to sitting, rubbed his face as if trying desperately to make himself wake up the rest of the way. She refused to notice that his chest was broad and magnificent. Or that his lips were full and masculine and had been between her…never mind. “What were you doing at the bachelor party?”
“I wasn’t at the party.”
He appeared to process that for a while.
“So I didn’t pick you up there, bring you here and then forget.” He chuckled, shaking his head. “I knew I couldn’t have been that out of it.”
How could he find anything about this situation funny? “You came home and crawled into bed with me. In this room.”
“I drank something pretty strong and didn’t notice you.” He turned his deep brown eyes on her face. “That is, I didn’t notice you at first…”
His smile became suggestive and secretive. Alana took a step back, clutching the bedspread, feeling a massive blush coming on even while thinking, Oh, great, not just a womanizer, a blacking-out alcoholic womanizer. Her sister never did anything by halves. “I took a sleeping pill and didn’t wake up until this morning. Just now. Not before. Slept all night. All of it.”
He grinned at her confusion. “You don’t remember…anything?”
“Of course not. I was asleep.”
“Hmm, I better fill you in, then, because I remember a whole lot of what happened around 3:00 a.m. You were lying there, and I—”
“No. Don’t.” She waved furiously, stop stop stop, then had to grab the bedspread covering her before it fell.
“Huh?” His face was pure innocence. “You don’t want to know? I should think that would be pretty important.”
“I…” Enter massive blush. “I know that you were…I mean, you were definitely…there, but…”
“But?”
“I,