Page 61 of Bad Girls Don't Marry Marines (Rock Canyon, Idaho 3)

He kissed her palm and laughed as he sat up. Pushing off the bed, he flipped on the light again and rummaged through his bag until he found a plastic pill bottle.

He came back to the bed with a glass of tap water and two white pills, handing both off to her. “This is the first time I’ve gotten the headache excuse after sex.”

Val’s lips were puffy and pink from kissing as she smiled. “I have a hard time imagining a woman giving you any excuse.”

He took in her lithe beauty as she sat up. His eyes caught on the small, round breasts with pert coral nipples, and he licked his lips, remembering the way they had tightened in his mouth.

She swallowed the pills with a sip of water and set the glass on the nightstand before turning back to him, her expression wary.

“I guess I should head back to my room. Brush my teeth and—”

“What?” His response was more of a shout, but he was completely caught off guard. Did she think this was a one-time deal?

“Keep your voice down,” she hissed.

He was a fucking idiot. “So this was all to scratch some itch you had? Just a wham bam thank you ma’am and then head back home like nothing happened?”

“No! I just . . . It’s been a long time for me and I don’t know the protocol anymore.”

“Protocol? This isn’t a fucking business deal and I’m not a hired stud.”

Her dark eyes widened, taking up most of her small face, which was already flushed an awful red.

“I wasn’t insinuating anything like that! I just meant that I’ve never ‘slept over’ with anyone besides my ex-husband, and I wasn’t sure if this was a sleeping-over kind of thing or a get-my-clothes-and-get-out situation.”

Justin took a deep breath, running his hands through his short hair. He felt like a clingy bastard, throwing a hissy fit over a misunderstanding.

When he hesitated too long, Val stood up and started gathering her clothes. Quick as a flash, he caught her by the waist and pulled her into his lap.

“I don’t want to make this complicated,” he said, ignoring her sudden stiffness. “No games. No bullshit. No outside opinions. Just you and me, seeing how far this thing between us can go.”

She was quiet for a moment, clearly weighing his words. “Does that mean this is a casual thing or—”

“This is a spend-the-night kind of deal. This is a you-stay-at-my-place-I-stay-at-yours situation.”

Her body started to relax against him until her head lay against his chest, her brown eyes looking up at him with a small smile. “No other people?”

Leaning her back against his arm, he kissed her hard and deep, sweeping his tongue inside. Her ass shifted in his lap, making his cock rise to attention once more. When he finally broke away, his voice was ragged. “Just us.”

Her hand brushed his cheek. “I am so good with that.”

Chapter Fifteen

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VAL WOKE UP moaning. The dim light of the room stung her half-opened eyes as she came up from the fog of a really good dream only to find that reality wasn’t that bad either.

Justin’s arm was resting on her waist, his hand between her legs, teasing her folds as his mouth left a blaze of kisses along her neck. Her nipples were painfully tight, and when she arched back against him, his cock poked her.

“Morning,” he mumbled, his voice vibrating against her skin and making her back muscles quiver.

“Mornin—oh!”

He’d slipped his fingers to pinch her clit before bringing his hand up to gently crush her breast. He bit down on her earlobe and whispered, “I need to go get more condoms.”

Her eyes popped open. They’d spent the night together and she had no idea if he was clear for STDs.

You could always ask him.

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