Kisses for the Billionaire: Final Kiss (9 page)

I
lay cradled
in the safety of his arms for what felt like an eternity. The heat from his body radiated in through my back and even though my arms were beginning to cramp, I still didn’t dare move.

There was something about the moment, if I moved then it was over and I would never get it back. It was a silly thought but I couldn’t shake it, I’d come so close to never having a moment like this ever again that now it was imperative I savour every last one I got.

David’s hand slid up over my arm, his deft fingers popping the lock on the handcuffs, releasing my practically numb arms from their bindings.

“Did I hurt you?” he asked, examining the red rings on my wrists from where the metal had dug into my skin when I’d fought the restraints.

“No,” I said stretching against his body. There was a dull heavy ache between my legs, the type that filled my head with all the memories of what we had shared. A reminder of how full I had been just a short while before.

His fingers traced idle patterns across my stomach and I dozed in his grip until David shifted against me, his mouth finding mine as he stole a soft kiss.

“Carrie, I love you,” he said but his voice sounded so serious and it set my heart hammering in my chest.

“And I love you, David, what’s wrong?”

He tightened his grip on me and pressed another kiss to my shoulder. “Nothing,” he said but I wasn’t convinced.

Whatever was on his mind had him worried but I knew he wouldn’t share it with me, not until he was good and ready and I would just have to wait for that moment.

Cuddling in against me, I listened to the sound of his breathing as it deepened and he fell into sleep. My own exhaustion over everything that had happened put me on the brink of sleep too but my mind was still whirring.

David had something in mind and whatever it was I knew I wasn’t going to like it. All I could do was hope that his plan worked because if it didn’t then Andy and Dominic would have him right where they wanted him and that wasn’t a position I ever wanted David to find himself in.