Chocolate Kisses (Forbidden 6)

Chocolate Kisses (Forbidden)
Marteeka Karland
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Copyright ©2008 Marteeka Karland

She knew he was there. She'd watched him pull in the drive on that sexy as sin motorcycle, his sexy as sin ass clad in all that leather. So where the hell was he?

Tianna blinked. She couldn't believe she'd just mentioned his ass, even to herself. She'd just decided maybe this wasn't such a good idea when the door was flung open. The man who stood in front of her wasn't a man she'd ever seen before, but he had the same hugely muscled build as Rikardi.

The man looked her up and down then asked, "How much do you weigh?"

Tianna blinked. "I'm sorry?"

"How much do you weigh?" He repeated his question, but with a touch of annoyance. Like a man who was used to having his orders obeyed without the slightest bit of hesitation.

She felt compelled to tell him. She couldn't have stopped herself from telling him what he wanted to know if her life had depended on it.

"A-about a hundred and ninety-seven pounds." She felt her face heat. Why she hadn't simply refused to tell him was beyond her, and saying she was so close to two hundred pounds mortified her. It was one thing for one of the sexiest men in the world to see she was a large woman, quite another for her to place a number on her weight.

"Good." He looked supremely satisfied. Tianna was certain she looked as confused as she felt.

He grabbed her free hand and practically dragged her inside. Tianna almost dropped the plate as he led her through his house to a huge sunroom on the west side. She could see her own house from there, particularly her bedroom.

"I came to welcome Mr. Lyyons to the neighborhood --" Her well-rehearsed speech started in a squeak that she couldn't correct. He didn't look like he was paying much attention to her, anyway. When she finally noticed what he was preoccupied with, she dropped the plate with a little squeal.

"Miss Darnell. Tianna." Rikardi sat on a plush, very large couch. What startled her enough to drop her plate of prized Brownie Sheet Cake was the fact that he sat there totally naked. When Tianna didn't answer him, he simply smiled and continued speaking. "I wondered when you'd finally come to me."

Was it common practice for the man to converse with complete strangers while in the nude? "You -- you're naked!"