Page 24 of Her Demanding Biker
"I can sleep in the main room with the others." I felt every inch of my 'advanced' age weighing on my bones. "The party is likely to go on until a few hours before dawn. If you stay here, it'll be quiet. No one will bother you here."
With that, I managed a nod.
I turned on the heel of my boot so I could get a blanket and a pillow to put under my head, but I only got as far as putting my hand on the wardrobe door pull.
"Logan?"
I looked over my shoulder at her. "Yeah?"
"This is your room. I can take the-"
"I hope you know me better than that." I lowered my hand and looked at her. "We can share the bed. I'm not the kind of man who'd touch you without your permission."
Arlys' cheeks reddened with a faint flush of heat. "I... I trust you."
Those three words had turned me into a bit of a liar.
I wasn't going to seduce her into having sex tonight, but that was in my head.
My dick had other ideas.
He was ready to go with or without my permission, so I'd be sleeping in my jeans where their snug fit would help me remember that I wasn't about to put my hands on her.
At least not yet.
We had things we needed to talk through first.
But we were going to talk about them.
A soft inhaled breath reached my ears.
Arlys had fallen asleep, her cheek on her knee.
I got up from my chair and turned off the light using the switch by the door. After that, I pulled a pillow out from under the blanket and set it back in place.
It took me a minute to shift her on the bed so that her head was on the pillow and her legs laid out in the direction of the foot of the bed.
I pulled a blanket out of the wardrobe and covered her before I laid down on the bed beside her.
I was a kind of natural furnace in bed. Even in the dead of winter with snow outside, I could sleep in a T-shirt and shorts and be perfectly comfortable, but Arlys? if she was the same as she was when we'd known each other before, she liked to wrap herself up in her blanket like a fucking burrito.
Before my head hit the pillow, I heard her sigh and felt her body sink into the bed.
She was asleep.
I turned on my side to look at her in the wedge of light coming through the window.
I had heard more than one person say that there were people who were able to sleep the peaceful sleep of innocents.
Well, Arlys was one of those people.
Me?
I'd done my share of shit in my life. I'd left innocent in the dust years ago.
But I could lie here looking at her, drinking my fill, and I was going to do it for as long as I could.
I'd walked away from her before because I thought I was doing a good thing.
