Page 52 of Love In The Spotlight

“Not everything,” he admitted. He couldn’t bring himself to tell them. They were disappointed and embarrassed enough, why say it all?

“Then I’m sorry you felt like you couldn’t be honest with them.”

“Nothing for you to feel sorry about,” he said.

He pulled her in front of him, his mouth to hers again.

When she lifted her head, she said, “I do want to talk and get to know you more, but I’m thinking I might need to know you more another way first.”

It was the smirk on her face. “Oh really?”

“Yes. I don’t make a habit of this, but there is something there I just need. I told myself I’m not going to fight it if you’re not.”

“It doesn’t feel as if I’m fighting a damn thing when it comes to you,” he said.

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MAKING PEOPLE ENVIOUS

Laken knew she was going to have sex with Jamie tonight.

It’d been a long time since a man had touched her body, but Jamie seemed to be touching another part of her soul that no man had ever done.

In her eyes that was more than enough to take this next step and the rest would fall into place as it did.

“Let’s go to my room,” she said.

She grabbed his hand and pulled him across the living room and into the open doorway of her room.

“The same nice view in here,” he said.

“It is. I think it’s what sold me. But I’m sure you know no one can see in,” she said.

She tried to be as private as she could with her life in more ways than one.

“I don’t like an audience as much as people think I do,” he said. “But it’s exciting to think they might be able to see us and be envious.”

“Ohhhhh,” she said. “I like making people envious.”

He laughed. A deep sound was low in his throat.

His hand reached for her blue cotton shirt and pulled it up and over her head easily enough. She had a blue bra on and matching panties. Nothing silk or fancy but more like pretty.

She liked to feel like a woman down to the last article touching her body.

Many said she could be tough like a man, but it was more personality when called for.

Tonight, she was going to be all woman.

“Good to know,” he said, tugging her in close and his mouth landing on hers. Her fingers got to work pulling his shirt out of the waist of his jeans. Thankfully it was just a cotton jersey like hers and she wasn’t going to have to spend a lot of time with buttons.

Her hands slid under and felt his warm firm skin against her palms, moved them up and down, then she yanked his shirt up and over his head too.

Before she knew what was happening, the two of them were reaching and yanking all their clothing off in record time.

“You didn’t even get to admire my matching set,” she said when she landed on the bed naked from where he lifted and put her there.

“I’ll admire it later when you put it back on,” he said. “Maybe we can eat dressed just like that in front of the fire.”

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