Page 35 of Wild Bliss

Sawyer stood. “I say that’s the best idea I’ve heard inyears, Teach.”

Wyatt kissed her one more time and then rolled off her. Hekind of hit the floor in an ungraceful move because he hadn’t bothered tocompletely take off his pants. Wyatt laughed, his face young and carefree as herolled over. “Guess I was too eager. But don’t worry. Next time I’ll do itright, girl.”

He’d done it perfectly, but before she had a chance to tellhim, Sawyer moved in and lifted her up into his arms. “You got her dirty. I’mgoing to clean her up. We’ll see you in bed, partner. How about you bring thosebrownies in? I get the feeling I’m going to be hungry.”

Wyatt stood suddenly, pulling his jeans up and lookingutterly delicious. “My brownies.”

He ran off toward the kitchen.

And Sawyer carried her away.

It was going to be a sweet night.

* * * *

Sawyer was surprised at how much he felt for the woman inhis arms. He’d watched her with Wyatt, and something deep inside had clicked.Like someone had turned a switch he hadn’t known previously existed. It scaredthe fuck out of him, but he wasn’t going to let this night go by without havingher.

He had days with her, days and nights before he had toacknowledge the fact that they wouldn’t work in the real world. The real worldwas snowed in and couldn’t get to them right now, so it could go fuck itself.

He carried her through the cabin he’d grown up in, into theroom he’d taken over when his grandfather had passed, and into the bathroomhe’d spent a shit ton of money redecorating.

Sabrina’s eyes widened as she took in the surroundings.“This is beautiful.”

He couldn’t help but grin. “Unlike the rest of the place?”

“That’s not what I meant.”

He set her on her feet. “I know. This is one of the rooms Ispent cash on after I inherited the place.” He moved to the big shower. Itdominated the room. Sawyer had hand selected the rock wall and the stoneflooring. “This used to be about a quarter the size and had nothing but an oldsink, toilet you had to jiggle the handle to get to flush, and a bathtub I’mpretty sure Granddad found at a junkyard. He did his decorative shopping at thejunkyard. Come here.”

She stood in the middle of his dream bathroom lookingslightly nervous and awkward and still sexy as hell.

“Sabrina, I came all over your hands. The least I can do iswash you up,” he offered. He didn’t worry she was changing her mind. The wayshe looked at him told him she wasn’t searching for an exit ramp. She simplywasn’t used to walking around naked in a strange man’s house. “Come here.”

He turned on the shower, setting the temperature and thesteam levels.

“This is amazing, Sawyer.” She let him lead her inside andbreathed in the steam. “Is that…?”

“Lavender,” he replied. “The shower has a couple of scentsit releases. I didn’t actually pick them. They came with the package, but Ifind the eucalyptus is helpful when I have a cold and the lavender… Well, womenlike the lavender.”

Her lips curled up. “Is this your secret? You lure womeninto this lush bathroom to make it easier to seduce them?”

He felt the water warming on his back, and he stared down atthe gorgeous teacher. “I’ve actually had very few women here. This place, well,I grew up here. It feels a little sacred to me. I updated a couple of thingsafter my grandfather passed. This bathroom was one of them because Granddad wasstingy when it came to money. I didn’t even know what showers were until Istayed at Ty’s place when I was a kid. I thought everyone had to bathe in coldwater and fit three boys into a tiny space to get ready for school. I vowed oneday I would have a real bathroom and a workshop. Everything else stayed prettymuch the same until Wyatt complained about the stove and the refrigerator.”

“What was wrong with them?” Her hands found his waist, andthe talk was doing what he’d hoped it would. She was relaxing. She was focusedon him. She hadn’t even noticed he’d placed a string of condoms on the shelfcontaining the soap and shampoo.

“Grandad found those in a junkyard, too. I’m pretty surethey were from the sixties. You had to be real careful because the stove gothot to the touch when it was on. And the freezer, well, it had zones. Some ofthem were way too cold so your food froze, and some weren’t cold enough so itspoiled. It was always an adventure, but Wyatt wanted to know his food wasn’tgoing to go bad or be frozen, and he’s been burned enough so we bought newones.”

Her eyes went soft. “Someone burned him. He didn’t want totalk about it, but I can’t imagine it was an accident.”

“It wasn’t, and he’ll tell you the story when the time isright. You have to know he’s out of that life now. The burns on his chest werepayment for leaving. You don’t get out of an outlaw MC without pain. There aremen I’ve met who I would say they’ll go back, but Wyatt isn’t one of them. He’sa solid guy.” He owed it to Wyatt to let her know what a good man he was. Shecould trust him. Even if she could never trust Sawyer.

She put a hand on Sawyer’s arm, right over the black boxwhere his Horde tattoo had once been. “And this was yours?”

The room was starting to steam up, so he eased her closer,invading her space. “I had it easier than Wyatt. I wasn’t born into it. I wentinto the club because my brother was a moron, and someone had to watch overhim.”

She breathed in the steam. “Did you save him?”

“Sort of. I made sure he didn’t die, but when I had thechance to keep him out of jail, I didn’t take it. I thought it would prove tohim this wasn’t the right life. And it did. He did his time and now he’s inDenver with his wife and child, and he’s happy from what I can tell.” He didn’tknow. All he knew was Wes didn’t want to have anything to do with him, and thatwas fine.

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