Page 37 of Outside The Wire

“Do you have everything?”

She slung her purse over her shoulder and nodded. “Yep, that’s everything.”

I grabbed her elbow, holding onto her the whole way. Her feet nearly went out from underneath her a few times on the walk up, but luckily, she didn’t go down.

After opening her door and checking her house, I tugged off her hat, grinning at the way her hair frizzed up from the static.She rolled her eyes in irritation. She always hated when I played with her hair, which was why I kept doing it. I loved it when she was perfectly imperfect.

“I’ll be here bright and early with hot cocoa.”

“I still can’t believe you came to get us.”

“I still can’t believe you can’t believe it.”

She slid her arms around my waist and pulled me closer, raising up on her tiptoes. “Maybe the next time we have a date, you could come over for movie night.”

I raised an eyebrow at her. “Ms. Lane, are you trying to round a base with me?”

“Maybe? I guess we’ll have to see?”

“You know your friend threatened to stab me with a sewing needle. You’d better keep an eye on her and sharp objects.”

Her lips split into a grin, illuminating her whole face. “You should have seen what she threatened the last one with.”

“I’ve got to hear this.”

“Death by fire ants.”

“Was she going to lock him in a box?”

She shrugged. “Not sure. I’m not even sure where she would get the fire ants. I stopped questioning her methods after she threatened me with gnoming my store if I didn’t stop singing Christmas songs.”

“Gnoming? What is that?”

“She filled the shop with gnomes.”

“So…gnoming is like…the kids’ version of teepeeing a house?”

“Something like that,” she giggled. “But what she didn’t realize was how much I liked it. She thought I’d be creeped out by it.”

I didn’t even know what to say to that. It was just too strange to even think about. “I need to head home.”

A disappointed sigh left her lips as she slid her fingers through my hair and her lips brushed over mine. I really didn’t mean for it to turn heated, but then she slid her tongue inside my mouth and moaned so indecently that my cock sprang to life and jerked inside my pants.

I spun us around and pressed her up against the wall, knocking the picture off the wall as my hand worked its way through her hair. Fuck, her lips were so kissable. I slid one leg between hers, getting just the right friction against my cock as my lips skimmed down her neck and?—

I pulled myself back, breathing heavily as I spun away from her, intertwining my fingers behind my head so I didn’t go over and maul her again. My cock was straining painfully against my zipper, and there wasn’t much that could make it go down at the moment. Maybe a cold shower would do the trick. Or a dip in the snow. There was plenty of that.

Hell, I needed to leave right now.

I turned around and Holly was still panting hard, her eyes filled with lust as she stared all disheveled and fuckable.

“I need to leave.”

I stalked to the door and walked out before I did something stupid like tearing her clothes off. But I didn’t leave until I heard the lock click. It took a few minutes, but she finally did it.

And I was still fucking hard.

I got in my truck and did my best to concentrate on the drive home. The roads were quickly turning to shit, not that they were any better on the ride to her house. At least she was safe at home now.

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