Page 99 of Just One of the Groomsmen
When he turned to find his underwear, Addie was unabashedly checking him out, and it made him want to dive back in bed with her all over again.
While he’d tried to play it cool, a tiny part of himhadbeen worried it might be weird afterward. Luckily they transitioned right back to friends, but with more ogling.
“If you want, I have ice cream in the freezer.” He took a few steps and then spun around. “Not that I’m opposed to dripping it over your body and eating it that way, but I more meant you could grab a couple of spoons and we could watch a movie or somethin’.”
“Well, my truck is back at the bar, so I guess I am sorta stranded. Might as well make the most of it and watch a movie with you.”
“I’ll take it,” he joked, and then he went to let Flash inside.
By the time he’d opened the back door and semi–calmed down his puppy, Addie had moved to the kitchen. She stood in front of the freezer, sheet wrapped around her like an extra-long toga as she peered inside.
Flash bounded across the floor, nails clicking against the hardwood as he went right for Addie. She’d reached inside for the ice cream, and with only one arm to secure the sheet and Flash sinking in his teeth and tugging on the other end, she didn’t stand a chance.
She squealed, and then she was standing buck naked in the middle of his kitchen area. An area that was way too small for everything he wanted to do to her.
“You’ve gotta be kidding me,” she said.
Tucker gestured toward the puppy, who was now happily fighting the sheet. “See? His name practically chose itself.”
She had one arm covering her breasts and the other covering his own personal heaven. “Some assistance, please. There’s naked and then there’s bent-over naked, and it’s way too soon for the latter.”
“I don’t see a problem with you just staying right there for a while.” He leaned a hip against the nearest wall. “I might suggest dropping the arms, though.”
She fired a dirty look his way, and he didn’t have the heart to tell her it was hardly effective while she was standing there with all that tempting skin on display.
He snagged his shirt off the floor, stepped over thebest dogever, and pulled it over Addie’s head. If she had to wear clothes, they might as well be his.
Bonus, it left her killer legs nice and bare.
“I’m starting to think it’s a conspiracy,” she said. “You trained him to do that, didn’t you?”
He gave her a crooked grin. “I plead the Fifth.”
The cold ice cream carton hit his chest and the drawer opened with a rattle of silverware.
Addie grabbed two spoons and they retreated to the bed, where he arranged the pillows against the headboard so they could face the flat-screen TV he’d recently installed on the opposite wall. He brought up the menu to order a movie and typed inLake Placidto mess with her.
“That’s it, I’m outta here.” She acted like she was going to hurdle over him and leave, and he caught her around the waist and tugged her back to him.
“Wait. I was going for guaranteed clinging and cuddling, not fleeing.”
“What if I guaranteed those things if wedon’twatch a movie with killer alligators?”
Tucker relinquished the remote, figuring whatever she picked, he’d enjoy. “Choose whatever you want.”
She resettled into the spot next to him and aimed the remote at the TV. “I feel so drunk on all the power.”
As she scrolled through movies, he dug into the ice cream. When the first bite was loaded with the mini peanut butter cups Addie mined for whenever they had Moose Tracks, he extended it to her.
Her eyebrows drew together, and then with a shrug, she leaned forward and ate it off the spoon.
“Was that weird?” he asked.
“Weird. Delicious. I kinda dig it. Saves me time from unearthing them myself and”—she patted his arm—“gives you something useful to do with these biceps. I was starting to worry you were strictly eye candy.”
Now he was the one rolling his eyes. “Stop or you’ll make me blush.” He ate a bite and extended the next one to her.
“So…” Her lips wrapped around the spoon, and he got lost in that for a second or two. “Since you know my secret fear, I think it’s only fair that you tell me yours.”
