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Makes me want more of it.
Because I want to come home to find her waiting in my bed.
I want to fall asleep with her beside me and wake up knowing she’ll be there in the morning.
But she’s putting on the brakes. I can feel it. She doesn’t want to rush things. Wants to take things slow.
When all I want is to break all my own rules and go fast.
“I had better get dressed,” she says, sitting up. “I don’t want to push my luck with Mrs. V. She’s only just started to like me. You know, she smiled at me yesterday.”
“That’s huge strides.” I grab her and pull her back down to me. Skin to skin, I can feel my cock appreciating the contact. “But then again, you’re easy to like.”
“Is that you saying you like me?”
My growing cock flinches between us.
“I take that as a yes,” she says, chuckling. “But as much as I’d like to stick around and show you both how much I like you too, I’d better get downstairs.”
“What is the time?”
She reaches for my phone on the nightstand. “Nine o’clock.”
Fuck. Time goes fast when I’m with her.
It only feels like half an hour ago that she knocked on my door.
I press my palms into my eyes. “I’m late for church.”
I’ve never been late for church in my life.
Reluctantly, I climb out of bed and quickly dress.
Hating that I have to leave, I lean down and kiss her quickly on the nose. “I’ll see you later?”
She gives me a mischievous grin. “Maybe.”
I can’t help myself. I pin her to the bed with my body. “Don’t tease me.”
“Or what?”
I press my hips into hers. “Or I’ll make you pay.”
Big blue eyes gleam up at me. “You’ve got my attention.”
I bend my head to kiss her. But it’s not a goodbye kiss. It’s a very reluctantI have to get my ass to churchkiss.
I break away with a growl.
Beast is going to be pissed.
But it doesn’t stop me from pausing at the door. “I really like this,” I say, looking across the room at her lying naked and soft among my sheets.
She smiles softly. “Yeah, me too.”
I leave the bedroom with a strange sensation blooming in my chest, and it’s still there when I head into the chapel.
Church is underway when I walk in, and I feel all sets of eyes on me as I take a seat.
