Page 110 of Forbidden Harmony

She rubbed again at her forehead. “Are youfinished work?”

“Yeah.”

“Oh,” she said.

There was a moment of awkward silence andthen she threw the covers back. “Okay, well thank you for your help.”

He frowned when she climbed out of bed and grabbedher yoga pants and sweatshirt from the floor. He stood and moved around thebed to stand in front of her. She covered her breasts with the sweatshirt. “Ijust need to use the bathroom quickly and then I’ll get out of here.”

“You’re staying the night,” he said.

“I really appreciate your help,” she said,“but do you think I could give you a rain check for the thank you sex? I feelbetter than I did but I’m still pretty stuffed up and achy and I would feel badif I gave you my cold. Plus, as I’m sure you’ve figured out, I have myperiod. I prefer not to have sex during my period.”

“You think I want you to stay for sex?” hesaid.

“Uh, maybe?”

He scowled at her. “I’m not going to makeyou have sex with me. You need someone to look after you and your fuckingbrother is useless.”

She cocked her head at him. “How do you knowthat?”

“Never mind. You’re spending the night,Addison. No arguing.”

She opened her mouth to argue and barelyhad time to cover her mouth before sneezing.

He leaned down and picked up an overnight bagthat was tucked at the end of the bed. She gave it a look of confusion. “That– is that my bag from my bedroom closet?”

He nodded. “During my supper break, I wentto your apartment and grabbed some of your stuff for you.”

Her mouth dropped open and he stared at herin irritation. “What?”

“You went to my apartment? How did you getin?”

“Your keys were in your purse.” He set theduffel bag on the bed. “I’ll run a bath for you and then I’ll get us somethingto eat.”

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Addison wiped her dripping nose before staringinto the overnight bag on the bed. The bag had most of her toiletries from herbathroom – it looked like Preacher had just grabbed everything on the shelves.She picked up a narrow tube and studied it before giggling despite her achingbelly. Did Preacher think she might want to do a relaxing mud mask tonight?She tossed it back into the bag and reached for a pair of panties.

“How many pairs of panties does he think Ineed for one night?”

Preacher had stuffed a week’s worth ofunderwear into the suitcase. All of them were her plain, practical cotton onesand while she was grateful for that, she was also surprised. Her lacy, silk pantieswere in the same drawer and she would have bet a thousand bucks that Preacherwould have picked those out. Guys liked the sexy underwear on a woman and hejust didn’t strike her as the type of guy who would think about the fact thatshe was on her period and might want more practical underwear.

Yeah, but you didn’t think he would bethe type of guy to pay for your tampons, run you a bath, and look after youwhen you were sick either.

She sneezed and wiped her nose again. Herinner voice made a good point. She had no idea what Preacher was thinking buthonestly, she felt so horrible that she didn’t want to think much about it. Itwas just nice to have someone take care of her.

Of course, she had told Preacher she didn’twant a boyfriend and she didn’t need him to do any of this stuff. As much as shewas enjoying being taken care of, she needed to leave as soon as he came back.If she gave him her cold, he’d be pissed and would probably never have sex withher again.

Seriously? Is sex with Preacher theonly thing you can think about?

It wasn’t the only thing, but hell, for thefirst time in her life she was truly enjoying sex. The things Preacher did andsaid to her made her so hot, was it any wonder she had a difficult timethinking about anything else?

Too bad he doesn’t feel the same way.You’re not making a very good impression, Addie.

No, she supposed she wasn’t. But that’swhy she was sleeping with him – to get better at sex. He seemed to enjoy theblowjob, but he hadn’t asked her to go down on him again since. Before shegave him the next one, she would ask him for some very clear instructions onwhat he liked and didn’t like. Once she knew exactly what he wanted, she’d bebetter at it.

While she was at it, she needed to ask himfor more instructions regarding sex. All the lessons so far were basically himteasing her and making her come so hard, she nearly blacked out. While shesupposed that was good for teaching her to be more responsive, it didn’t helpher with being sexier or making sure the guy was having a good time. Hell, halfthe time she didn’t even notice when Preacher came. She was too busy being offin la-la land from the mind-blowing orgasms he gave her. She wondered bleakly ifhe would even put up with her dismal skills in the bedroom for the entire monthbefore he simply lost interest.

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