He nipped her lower lip. “Give it to me, baby,” he whispered. “I want it.”
Her nails raked down his back as her body responded, unable to refuse him anything. Especially this. As her orgasm hit her, he slanted his lips over hers and swallowed every moan, every gasp, before adding his to it and he fell still.
Ken rested his forehead against hers, his eyes closed. “We could run away together forever,” he softly suggested. A wave of melancholy need washed over her from him. This weekend meant far more to him than it had for her, and that was saying something. She hadn’t realized just how much he’d needed this alone time with her. It was easy to forget, being together pretty much every day, that there was more than one way to be absent from a partner’s life.
She knew he wasn’t serious about running away, but she had another idea she suspected he’d love nearly as much. “How about when we check out, we ask them about vacancies and make a couple more reservations for us before the baby arrives?”
His eyes popped opened. “Really?”
“Yeah.” Her hands settled on his ass. “This has been great,” she quietly admitted. “You all were right. I really needed this.Waymore than I realized.”
* * * *
Ken didn’t take that admission for granted. Not at all.
He knew how damned hard that was for Dewi. Not admitting they were right but admittingthiswas what they’d been right about.
“Self-care is not selfish,” he reminded her. “You can’t perform your job to the best of your abilities if you’re too tightly wound to process anything. Youareyour work. You’ll burn out if you don’t get away from it once in a while. Plus, this is good forus.”
“I know.” She kissed him. “Shower, pack our stuff, and then breakfast?”
He nuzzled noses with her. “Yeah.”
After she climbed out of bed first to go use the bathroom, he breathed a sigh of relief. So far, he thought he’d managed to deliver the day to Peyton and Trent as they’d requested.
Although, after driving back home, he was a little concerned when they pulled up outside the house at three o’clock and didn’t see any vehicles parked there.
Dewi scowled, her nose twitching. “What’s going on?”
“What?”
“Why are you…worried?” Her gaze narrowed. “No, not worried. Concerned. You didn’t expect something. What’s going on?”
He pulled his SUV into the garage and shut off the engine. “I’m wondering how much work I’ll have waiting for me tomorrow, and what new updates there are about the Faegan Lewis stuff.” None of that was a lie.
“Ah.”
He grabbed their bags from the SUV and headed toward the door leading into the house, Dewi in the lead. But when she pulled up short he nearly ran into her.
“What?” he asked.
She turned, with one eyebrow arched skyward and an all-too-familiar lopsided smirk on her face.
“Really?”she silently asked through their mate bond.
He felt heat fill his face, because he knew exactly what she meant by that one word.
He also had no answer for her.
“How many?”she asked.
He sighed.“Everyone.”
She rolled her eyes.“Goddammit.”Then she glared at him.“I should get in the car and leave.”
“Honey,please, pretend to be surprised, okay? This means a lot to Trent, Asia, Gillian, and Peyton.”
She pointed to her face and circled a finger.“They’ll be able to tell. Well, Peyton will. Prime, remember?”
