Page 35 of Just for Him
“Take it off.Now.”
The skin to skin contact was more than I could bear. Like a match to dry tinder soaked in lighter fluid, I went up in flames. Thankfully, Haven was right there with me.
We stumbled toward her bedroom, shedding articles of clothing along the way. We almost made it, too.
It was fast. Furious. And so damnhot.
Had I been a lesser man, I might have been embarrassed by my own exuberance. Haven didn’t seem to mind, though, and hers was the only opinion I cared about. Now that we had taken the edge off, we could take our time. Maybe. Just crawling into bed with her soft, warm body pressed against mine was enough to have me readying for round two.
Haven curled up against me, and that felt almost as good as the sex.
“Thank you,” she said on a sigh.
I laughed. “Baby, you never have to thank me for that.”
She laughed, too. “I meant for this weekend. I can’t even imagine how much effort and expense it took to pull it off.”
Inwardly, I was pleased that she recognized my efforts, but what she didn’t realize was I would have done so much more for her. For me. For us.
“It wasn’t a big deal.”
She kissed my neck, right below my jaw. “Hmmm. And here I was going to spend the rest of the weekend expressing my appreciation.”
“In that case,” I told her, sliding my hand down the curve of her back, “you’re right. It was a very big deal. Huge, in fact.”
She laughed softly, and then, because she was a woman of her word, she proceeded to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was the luckiest man on the planet.
By the time Sunday rolled around, I felt we were both ready for the meet-the-family moment. Our thirty-six-hour, intense, getting-to-know-each-other weekend had done wonders for laying any doubts to rest. We talked. We cuddled. We made love often. We even managed to catch some of theUntouchablesmarathon on the classic movie channel while we replenished our energy levels with carb-laden take-out.
“Best weekend ever,” she told me as she brushed her hair. Her eyes were shining, her skin was glowing, and her smile was radiant. I took great satisfaction in the knowledge thatIwas the one who did that.
“No argument there.”
“It’s going to be hard to top that.”
Oh, I had a couple of ideas ...
