Page 74 of Searching for Sadie
"I like you too, Songbird. Just so you know," he said as he turned her face to his. "I'm not really sure what the rules are here with everything you're going through, so I'm kinda following your lead, but make no mistake, I have plans for you."
She turned to him again as the renovation show played forgotten on their screen. "Plans you say?"
"So many plans," he said as he tucked a lock of hair that had escaped the messy bun on her head behind her ear.
"What kind of plans?"
"Well, I can't tell you that now, can I?"
"Umm... you could."
"And what fun would that be?"
Her brow scrunched at him again in mock disapproval, and damn, he'd never loved giving anyone shit more than he loved giving her shit. He lowered his head to kiss her, but to his pleasant surprise she closed the distance and kissed him first.
His hand came up and gently cradled her jaw as he sipped at her mouth. The softest little moan left her mouth as she opened to him. Part of him wanted to devour her right her on this couch, starting with her mouth but continuing until he devoured herpretty little pussy. But it wasn't time for that. No right now, he was going to kiss her and get lost in the sweetness and emotion of it all, and he found he was enjoying that even more than he thought he would. He'd never wanted to cherish anyone quite like this before.
Yes, he wanted to make sure she was okay, and he wasn't taking advantage of the situation, but there was more to it than that. The feelings he had for her were deeper than any he'd ever had before. His arm slid around her holding her close as they shared this tender kiss.
They were interrupted by a knock at the door. Breaking the kiss, he pressed his forehead to hers. "Hold that thought," he said when he went up to get the pizza.
When he came back down the stairs holding entirely too many boxes of pizza for the two of them, he stopped and put them on the bar. "Do you want a beer, soda, water?"
"A beer sounds fantastic," she said.
He snagged a couple beers from the fridge behind the bar and some napkins and headed over to the table with the pizza before setting up the feast.
"Wow, you're going to be eating pizza for days," she said.
"You say that like it's a bad thing."
She looked up at him and smiled, but this time her smile didn't really reach her eyes.
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, I was just checking my phone."
He nodded and came and sat next to her. Social media wasn't really something he paid much attention to. He had some and occasionally looked at pictures of his niece and nephews, and he ran his work page, but that was about it. But he also didn't live under a rock, he knew that space was probably not being particularly friendly to her.
"You know not to read the comments, right?" he asked as she sat down and popped open the pizza boxes.
"Oh, this isn't my first rodeo. I'm not really here for social media, but it is a necessity in this day and age. I private all my pages, but I had to open them and be tagged in show stuff as per my contract, but I am most definitely staying away from any comment sections."
"Good," he said, picking up a piece of pizza before settling back on the couch and popping the top of a beer before handing it to her.
"It's the group chat for all the girls on the show."
Her brow furrowed as she took a long pull from the beer while he opened his own.
"I like almost all the girls I met on the show, and I know they’re just trying to watch out for me, but they keep texting me to check in and telling me they're sorry and not to listen to people online... like duh! That's what I'm doing, but it's hard to ignore them when you all tell me a million times a day to ignore them."
"Yeah, that seems a little counterproductive."
"Right! I know to stay away from the comments. I'm aware people are saying horrible things about me. I know I look like a complete sucker for falling for that douche." Before he knew what was happening, she was collapsing into herself holding her face.
"Hey," he said quickly, setting down his plate and rubbing her back.
"I'm sorry, I'm a mess. I'm a fucking rollercoaster of emotions. You're being so nice to me and I'm laughing one minute and crying the next."
