His eyelids lowered a touch. “Wanna fool around?”
“I don’t want to be a tease.”
I found myself flat on my back when he rolled into me. “Fuck that noise, Lex. You aren’t a tease and never were. I just want to make out with you, and I’ll stop when it gets to be too much.”
“That sounds like a plan.”
Chapter ten
Here Until Further Notice
Rafferty
Threedaysago,Inever thought I’d wake up next to Alexandra. The satisfaction it gave me almost scared me, because I’d never felt like this. Like starting every day next to Alexandra was where I was meant to be.
Dim sunlight came through her blinds. I watched Alexandra sleeping. Her beauty stopped me every time I saw her, but her relaxed features, unguarded in her sleep… it stole my breath and made me wonder why she bothered to put up with me. She was so gorgeous, she could have anyone she wanted.
She rolled over and her hand landed on my bicep.
Her eyes opened wide and she gasped. “Oh crap! What time is it? I’m running late. Did my alarm go off?”
I held her hand to my arm to keep her from bolting from the bed. “Your alarm hasn’t gone off yet. I woke up because of the sunlight.”
“Oh,” she said.
“Yeah. You aren’t freaking out for any other reason are you?”
Her brows drew together. “No.”
“Then do your thing and turn off your alarm.”
She nodded and swung her legs to the side of the bed and sat on the edge. I didn’t miss her sudden inhale.
“You sore?” I asked, feeling like a dumbass.Of courseshe was sore. I’d meant to tell her to take a bath after we were done last night, but I also didn’t want her getting caught up in her thoughts.
“Yeah.” She glanced over her shoulder at me. “Maybe I’m an idiot, but I figured it would go away by now.”
I sat up. “Tomorrow you should be good.”
Her head reared back. “Well, at least I should be able to… last longer this weekend.”
I sat up, shifted her hair to one side, and kissed her bare shoulder. “Thought I told you, but I’m here until further notice.”
“You are?”
“Yeah, at least until this break-in shit is resolved.”
She twisted and leaned toward me. This new position made me appreciate her skimpy, fire-engine red pajama set for a new reason. Red was sure as hell her color, but the top didn’t hug her figure and it gave me enough of a peek at her side-boob that my dick took notice.
“What are you talking about?” she asked.
I forced myself to focus on her hazel eyes, and I ran down my conversation with Cal.
She tipped her head back. “I swear it seems like I have less privacy here than I did back in Jacksonville.”
I wrapped my arms around her, fell to my back, and pulled her on top of me. “This is for your safety, Alexandra. He loves you and wants to protect you.”
A contrite expression stole over her face. “I know that. It isn’t his concern that bothers me, it’s the fact you had to tell him. Obviously, I should have called him, and I would have, but we—”
