“You should talk to Draco about this; he knows all the powers in existence and will know what just happened.” Gwendolyn stood up, and I with her. There was a lot I didn’t understand about my powers, so she made a good point. I needed to see the man who knew it all when it came to these gifts of ours.
“Are you feeling okay?” She reached out a hand to touch my face, feeling for fever. But the sickness had drained out of me, I guess, since I felt fine now.
“Yeah, I’m good. You can keep touching me, though,” I joked, trying to lighten the air around us a bit. It was beginning to feel too ominous. Her facial features softened from worry to something else I couldn’t read right.
Her hand gently moved up my cheek, then fingers caressed my features with a featherlight touch, around the glasses, down the nose, along the angle of my jaw, then finally touching my lips, as if to make sure they were real. Her eyes were on everything she touched, like she was studying a sculpture instead of the human.
“Your lips are so soft, but yet they felt hard when you kissed me.” Her voice sounded of wonder and awe, and that feeling of being close to her was back with a force, overwhelming me with need.
When her finger rimmed the edge of my bottom lip, I had no choice but to part my lips and suck it into my mouth. Her eyes widened, exhilaration beaming from her gaze in response to what I was doing to her thumb. Slowly she pulled it free, and I gave it a gentle peck before it was back against her body.
She kept looking around then back to me, like she was nervous.
“What are you thinking?” I inquired. Normally she just blurted out what she was thinking, but now she seemed to be trying to reel it in. That was something I didn’t want from her.
Her blue eyes finally settled on mine, and then she spoke in a very confident manner.
“I wanna have sex with you.”
Dead. I was dead, right there by the bay.
I swear, this woman knocked me off my feet constantly with her actions and words. That primal need inside me to drag her back to my SUV and give her exactly what she wanted drew a groan out from my chest. My hands dragged over my face, praying for the strength to do what she really needed instead of giving in. Gwendolyn, from what I’d read between the lines, was a virgin. She needed to be wooed and taken care of. Not fucked in the back seat in a moment of need. Hard as steel, and my whole body ached for sweet heat surrounding me, I only leaned over and kissed her lips. Gently and quick.
“I’d love nothing more than to take you into my SUV and fuck you into oblivion.” I took a breath and looked up to the sky quickly, trying to find that godly strength within myself to say the next words. Of course, when I looked back at her face she was practically nodding in agreement.
“But how about we start with holding hands and move up from there? Maybe a movie date tomorrow at your place?”
My inner male was shaking his head, demanding I hand over my man card at the door.
“That’s probably a smarter idea. I don’t know what I’m doing, wouldn’t wanna be bad at it.” She didn’t seem upset, but just logically thinking it over. She needed the baby steps to work up to running full steam.
“There is no way you could be bad at it; I’m already close to coming in my jeans from just the thought of you wrapped around me. Trust me. You’ll be beyond perfect.”
I leaned in to kiss her again then walked back to the car. I wasn’t lying at all—this girl had me primed and ready to shoot. A little separation right now would be good for me; that and maybe a cold shower.
Chapter Nineteen
Gwendolyn
I was grateful that Arthur wanted to take a step back from jumping straight into sex, but only because I needed to get back to my robots so they’d be finished for the hospital trial. I had just dropped them off and helped the nurses get them situated with the patients who had signed the proper paperwork to have them in their room.
It had been another day since I told him I wanted to have sex and I was eager to get home.
Now I was on my way to my apartment to make sure it was clean and meet Lynn for a late lunch. I needed some advice, and she was my advice person.
Pops and Cora were going to be turned off on their charging stations tonight, and I was going to try to seduce Arthur. I wanted him, and that was it. I didn’t want to do it with them watching the whole time—I don’t think I could handle that at all.
I had just finished making sandwiches when Lynn showed up.
“I’m so hungry,” she groaned dramatically and walked through the door, straight to the kitchen table.
She started eating, and I joined her. We ate quietly, and once we were done she sat back into the chair, fully sated. Those brown eyes of hers looked me over, knowing something was up.
“What is going on?”
I sucked in a breath and let the words flow out of me with my exhale.
“I wanna have sex with Arthur, and I’m nervous, but wanna touch and take it to that level. But I don’t know what I’m doing, and even though he says I could never be bad at it, I still think I might, and I just need advice.”
