Chapter 191: Serving Suggestion
** Harper **
Harper wanted to burst into flames. Half from the embarrassing drunken episode that this shameless smartass was bringing up yet again, half from the look in his eyes that made her whole body burn.
And those flames only flared higher when his other hand reached for the coffee table ... for not the chocolate mousse, but the extra can of whipped cream sitting right beside it instead.
Which, quite incidentally, she noticed to be sugar-free. She wondered what that could possibly imply about his plan, though the brief curiosity was quickly gone from her head when he bent over, brushing his lips over the shell of her ear and giving her a new wave of delicious tingles.
"Speaking of another thing that I always wanted to do to you," he whispered. "I’ve been waiting to try this since the day you licked that damned ice cream off of your beautiful face."
... Really? Did he mean the day at the amusement park? Or the day at the book fest by the harbor? It felt like so long ago that Harper could barely remember it herself, but the admission made her giddy all the same, coaxing those flames up yet another notch.
"Then what are you waiting for?" She teased him with a dare, and the words sent her own anticipation shimmering, turning into a pulsing thrill at the unknown of what he was about to do.
Eli grinned. There was no need for more enticement. With a deft flick that already seemed like second nature to him, he unhooked her bra and pulled everything off of her shoulders, his eyes darkening with a wicked gleam as he shook the aerosol can in his hand.
Then she felt it. A chilly, airy puff that landed right on her left nipple.
Harper gasped, utterly unprepared for the startling sensation. Unlike the half melted chocolate mousse, the whipped cream was still cold from the fridge, and the contact against her skin was an abrupt shock to all her nerve endings. Not in a bad way ... but still so unexpected that it made her shiver in surprise.
"Oops, is it too chilly?" Eli asked. "Don’t worry, I’ll fix it for you right away."
And he did, by closing his warm lips over the same spot and suckling his new dessert with a pleased "Mmmm".