Page 24 of His Wood Her Fire

I watched her eyes widen and her throat work to swallow her soft moan, but I heard it.And fuck me, my cock got hard just thinking about it.

“Y-you want to spank me?”

“I want to do everything to you.”

“But you couldn’t get out of the room fast enough after we had sex!”she blurted.

“I told you, that was my freak out.I fucked up.And I am so sorry if I hurt you.But it had nothing to do with anything about you, Gloria.In case you didn’t already know it, I think you are fucking perfect, Baby.”

“You do?”

“I do,” I whispered.

I was hypnotized by the shadow and light cast by the fireplace, dancing across her sweetheart of a face and making her look like a fucking angel.

Images of me sayingI doin another setting flashed through my mind, and I knew right then I wanted to make that happen.

Oh, it was too soon.I was too brash.

Too bold.

Too damn unworthy of her.

But none of that seemed to matter.I was going to keep this woman.

In all the ways that mattered, I was connected to her.Yes, it might appear fast, but the way I felt about her could only be real.Gloria was my soulmate.She made me feel alive after being alone for so long.I had some shit to make up for, and I would.

But she was already mine.

To have and to hold.

In sickness and in health

To love and to cherish.

She just didn’t know it yet.

Chapter Twelve-Gloria

Heat so much heat.

My heart was thudding inside my chest, and I couldn’t help but wonder what would happen if I were to reach for him?

Would he push me away?

Would he take what I was so willing to give now, then wait till tomorrow to ice me out?

I wanted to trust hm.Hell, I just wanted him.But I was so afraid of being hurt again.

And that was my biggest problem, wasn’t it?I was a forty year old woman who was once burned and twice shy of love.

“Go to bed, Gloria.I’ll sleep on the couch,” Bo said, breaking the silence before leaning forward and kissing my temple.

I stood up, letting him help me by placing my hand in his.

My lungs burned, and I felt tears well in my eyes as I started to step away from him.

I did not want to go to his room all alone.I wanted to feel the way he made me feel when we were together the other day.I wanted him.

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