“Perfect,” I said, beaming at our Christmas masterpiece.
“If you say so,” was his response. I laughed and shook my head at him.
Then my jaw cracked with a wide yawn.
It was getting late, and we’d done a lot. To top it off, I hadn’t slept that well the last two nights.
“You wanna, uh…” I turned to face him, hesitant to take my eyes off the tree. I shifted my eyes just in time to see his Adam’s apple dip with a hard swallow. “I got a big bed up there. Figured we could share. I’ll, uh, keep my hands to myself.”
“And what if I don’t want you to…”
He pressed his lips to mine. It was quick, but it left me breathless.
“I’ll keep my hands to myself,” he repeated in a stern voice that did things to me. If he wanted me to be good, he couldn’t do those kinds of things.
“What about a little cuddling if I promise to keep my hands above the waist?” I blinked up at him, feigning innocence.
I took his scowl and grunt for a maybe.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Killjoy
I’d never cuddled with anyone before.
All night long, I’d tried to fight it, and to his credit, Danny had behaved once we crawled into the bed. Except it seemed we were like fuckin’ magnets, and in the middle of the night, he’d become plastered to my chest and I’d held him there.
That was how I woke up. Cold from the cool air in the cabin since I’d only used the radiator last night, and hot where Danny was touching me.
I grunted, rolled my shoulder forward, and grunted again when his head lulled like a dead weight but didn’t actually go anywhere. I tried again, and this time, he let out a little snore before burrowing further into my side.
“Danny,” I said. Though it seemed like I was trying my damnedest to wake him, I hadn’t actually released my hold on his body.
His skin was soft and silky under my touch. He was lean and a little toned, but not bulky. He had a little padding aroundhis hips, and I might have tested how much I could sink my fingers into it. Which was a bad idea, and I realized that when Danny let out the sexiest moan and rolled his hips against my side. His cock was hard, which wasn’t a surprise given that it was first thing in the morning. But when he started slowly working the damn thing against me, I couldn’t take it.
“Killjoy,” he murmured right before his eyes fluttered open. “Shit!”
He tried to put distance between us, but I wouldn’t let him.
“Sorry. I didn’t mean to hump you like a slutty, desperate teen.”
“I like the first two parts of that. And I don’t mind so much,” I told him. “Do you, uh…”
“Yes, I want to,” he blurted out at the same time I finished what I was actually saying.
“Have to work today?”
Fuck, that made things awkward.
“Oh, yeah. I have a live at noon and I was hoping to film a little something too. I wanted to do an extra video for my VIP tier holders. Little holiday bonus as a thank you for all their generous support.”
“That’s nice of you,” I said. My eyes went skyward, zeroing in on the tall peak of the A-frame ceiling. This was not going how I wanted it to go.
My whole life, I felt like I never could get things out right. It never really mattered so much before. But it did now. I wished like hell I could have gotten Danny on the same page as my thoughts by spittin’ things out right.
“So you probably need to save up then,” I commented.
“Save up?” He sounded confused. Then he let out a cute little laugh before rolling over and covering my chest. He propped his chin on his hand and looked down at me. With a hit of fire hitting my cheeks, I shifted my gaze to meet his. “Youdon’t want to help me get off because you think I need to keep my balls full for work?”
