Total pages in book: 61
Estimated words: 59690 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 298(@200wpm)___ 239(@250wpm)___ 199(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 59690 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 298(@200wpm)___ 239(@250wpm)___ 199(@300wpm)
“Can’t you?”
“Well, yes. That wasn’t how I wanted them to find out,” she said. “But still…”
“Still,” I agreed.
“Come on. Let me get you some ice.”
She drew me into the kitchen and rummaged through a drawer to pull out a plastic baggie. She opened the freezer and dumped cubes into the bag, wrapped it in another kitchen towel, and then brought it to me.
“Here.” She took the bloodied towel she had first given to me and then gently replaced it with the ice.
I cringed as it touched my nose.
“Does it hurt?” she asked, pulling back.
But I reached for her wrist and guided the ice back onto my nose. “It’s already feeling better.”
Her answering smile made all the pain disappear. “You poor thing. I’m going to have to take real good care of you.”
She tipped up onto her toes and drew my mouth down to hers. I jerked back in surprise at the cool temperature. She gave me a sly smirk.
“Yes?” she asked.
I had no words as she slipped a piece of ice across her tongue. Blood pumped in completely different places than from my recent injury. She was pure temptation in that moment. And yet it felt like a distraction.
“Should we talk about what happened?”
“I don’t want to talk. I want to make you feel better. Kiss away your pain.”
I shot her an exasperated expression. “Don’t think you can kiss away my black eye.”
Light twinkled in her eye. “Oh, I wasn’t planning to kiss you there.”
Her lips pressed against my throat. Cold ice slithered down the exposed column, and the shock of different temperatures made my cock swell with desire. My hands came to her hips, dragging her harder against me.
“Harley…” I ground out.
She responded by opening the buttons of my now-bloodied shirt. “Think we should get you out of this. It might need to be washed.”
I huffed out a laugh. Then, her cold tongue was on my chest, working a trail of hot and cold along my exposed abdomen and lower, lower, lower.
“You’re not going to get out of talking to me about this,” I told her.
“Okay,” she said, coming back to her feet. “Let’s talk.”
“Really?” I asked in surprise.
Her big blue eyes were lined in silver, and her smile was magnetic as she leaned against me. “So…you love me?”
“I do.” My voice was low and earnest. “Not how I planned to tell you that either.”
“But you love me.”
“Yes.”
“Say it again,” she whispered.
“I love you.”
She shivered at the words. “How long have you known?”
I drew her against me, my heart cracking open for her. “I’ve always known.”
“Always?”
I nodded. “Always with you, baby girl.”
“That’s convenient,” she said softly.
“Oh?”
“Because I love you, too.”
She threw her arms around my neck and pressed her lips to mine. I took everything she was offering. Forget talking about her brothers and that catastrophe and my bloody nose. All that mattered was that my girl was in my arms and she’d said the words I’d always wanted to hear from her. The words I’d always wanted to give to her.
The ice was still in her mouth when our lips touched. Her tongue was cold as I opened her lips and brushed mine, warm, against hers. She sighed against me and passed the shrinking ice cube to me. I took it from her, heating up her cold mouth with mine.
“Oh,” she gasped as my hands slipped under the edges of her tank top and ran under her breasts.
I kept going north until I cupped her breast in my hand, rolling her nipple between my fingers. She writhed against me. Her hips rolling in a familiar motion that said she was heating up, just like I was. I teased the other pert nipple between my fingers until she pulled back from my kiss with hazy desire in her eyes.
“Fuck,” she managed.
My hands slid down her sides and cupped her ass. I lifted her up, aligning our bodies so my cock nestled against the heat of her pussy. She draped her legs around my hips, rocking herself against me to try to find that perfect friction.
I carried her out of the kitchen and into the living room, where I hastily pushed everything off of the coffee table, throwing the contents onto the floor. Then, I lowered her ass onto the edge of the wooden table. Her back hit next as I pushed her down flat. Her blue eyes were round with desire as I stripped her shorts off and let her thong follow into a discarded pile behind me.
The ice was fast melting in my mouth, but I had enough left to tease her the way she had been teasing me.
I spread her legs wide. One hand holding her open for my perusal, the other sliding up the slick seam of her pussy. She shuddered under my touch. A soft gasp leaving her lips.