Page 44 of Her Every Fantasy

‘What do you want to do?’

He smiled. ‘Totally up to you. I’m in your hands.’

‘How about we head out for a while?’

He groaned and nuzzled closer, making me laugh.

‘I’ll sweeten the deal and promise to wear the leather playsuit when we get back.’

Immediately, his expression brightened. ‘Deal. And I’ll try not to rip it off when I put you on your knees and fuck you from behind.’

With a hard little kiss, he launched himself off the bed and held his hand out to me. I stood up, then stumbled when I went to take a step.

He laughed, the sound brimming with unabashed male satisfaction. ‘That’s it, rosebud, show me how tough it is for you to walk,’ he leaned down to whisper in my ear.

I pushed against his ripped chest. ‘Remember, pride goes before a fall, champ.’

‘We’ll see.’ He stepped behind me and slapped my bottom. ‘Now get yourself in the shower.’

I took a few more ginger steps, earned another smug laugh from him before his face grew solemn. ‘Thanks for telling me the truth about what was really going on with you and your family.’ He hesitated for a moment, then added, ‘And I’m sorry if I was too self-absorbed for you to feel you couldn’t tell me.’

I couldn’t stop my heart from flipping over, from running my fingers through his hair and tossing one small wish into the cosmos. That, if nothing else, I never lose his smile again. ‘Maybe I couldn’t have handled telling you then, anyway. But it feels right to tell you now. Does that make sense?’

After a moment, he nodded. ‘You couldn’t count on my reaction then but you’re strong enough to handle it now?’

I smiled, my throat clogging with how perfectly he’d got it. ‘Something like that.’ God, I hoped there would be more moments like these, when I could just bask in the warmth of his friendship.

‘What are you thinking about?’ he asked. ‘Besides how amazing I am, of course.’

Smothering my mushy feelings, I winked at him. ‘That’s for me to know and you to drive yourself crazy over.’

His gorgeous grin returned. ‘No need. You’re wishing I make it so you can’t walk for another solid week.’

I opened my mouth to sayKeep dreaming, but somehow the words twisted, tapping into the vein of need he’d brought to life.

‘Kiss me again, Bryce. Make me stop thinking about all of the bad stuff.’

He continued to stare down at me for another half-minute, his fingers toying with my hair. Then his head swooped down and he caught my mouth in a searing kiss that did a fantastic job of wiping my brain clean.

CHAPTER SEVEN

Bryce

ITWASAgood idea to get out of the apartment. My head was spinning with sensory and information overload. The major one being how I’d missed the deeper undercurrents of what had been going on with Savvie and her family.

This time I couldn’t escape the stinging arrow of guilt. But maybe she was right. Maybe I wouldn’t have handled it then, on top of the crap going on with my own family.

But you can try now...

Could I, when I’d actively avoided the emotional for as long as I could remember? Did that fall under the purview of thisdifferent pathwe were taking?

Hell if I knew.

The sex, however...yeah,thatwas incredible. I loved sex in a healthy, non-obsessive way. But even before that first mind-blowing encounter I’d known I wanted to tie Savvie to my bed for an insanely long time that whiffed with notes of for ever. And call me primitive, but her confession that she’d never had a penetrative orgasm had made me want to roar and beat my chest like some bloody caveman and I wasn’t remotely ashamed.

Yeah, that had stoked my Mortimer arrogance to an all-time high.

Sex like that could only get better. And with the promise of anal sex hovering deliciously in our future, it was a miracle I could leave the apartment in one piece, especially with Savvie wearing that just-thoroughly-fucked-out-of-my-mind look and her lips swollen from our first, second and countless other kisses.

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