“I can see you have a lot going on in that big, thick head of yours,” Gyth said. “But take it from me because I have been where you are when I met Summer, wondering that same shit I can see in your eyes. You are a good man and Gemma is a mature, old soul. I personally think you fit each other. Don’t let fear take you away from something fucking amazing.”
Sometimes I wondered how the man I served with in the Marines and knew to be a lethal weapon with his bare hands could also be such a softy. It must have something to do with his wonderful wife. And to lighten the mood and move it away from me, I spoke my thoughts out loud.
“Your sweet, beautiful wife truly tamed a wild beast,” I told him.
“Don’t I know it,” he joked and everyone laughed.
“Shit, we all have been bit by the love bug,” Kace announced.
“Dude,” Rowan said, slapping Kace upside the back of his head. “The love bug, seriously?”
Another round of chuckles echoed through the crowded pub as the guys laughed. Well all except for me.
I was still stuck on the word love.
ChapterFifteen
GEMMA
The sightof him set off butterflies in my belly.
They danced, twirled, and took flight the moment I opened the door and saw him standing on the other side looking at me with lust in his eyes as if he wanted to devour me again.
Then I got a whiff of the delicious aroma that seeped from the bag he held in his hand and my stomach growled, causing my cheeks to pinken and Bodie to let out a deep chuckle.
“Food first,” he announced as he walked into my place and brushed his lips across mine in a quick kiss before heading to the kitchen.
Closing the door, I let out a sigh. I definitely wasn’t hiding anymore. Hell, he brought me food and his kisses were divine. And before he’d left, I’d learned how wicked he could be with his mouth on my lady bits. The whole time he was gone I’d felt like I was in a Bodie-induced dream. My hoo-ha still tingled thanks to him.
That was a first for me and I found it to be thrilling.
“Come eat, love.”
A tingle zipped down my spine at him calling me love. It was the third time I’d heard him say it and it melted my heart.
“Did you eat?” I asked, coming up beside him as he was unpacking the food.
“No, I wanted to eat with you.”
There went my heart again. I would be a puddle of goo before the night was over. Since Peyton and Piper were staying the night at Summer’s house, we had a lot more alone time on our hands than usual.
Whatever would we do?
“If you don’t wipe that look off your face I’ll be having dessert first,” Bodie said, answering my unspoken question in a gravelly voice.
My gaze snapped to him and the desire in his eyes had me squeezing my thighs together to control the heat blooming in my nether region.
Before I knew what was happening, he’d forgotten the food and picked me up by my hips, placing me on top of the counter like I weighed nothing at all. His hands pushed my knees apart and he wedged himself between my thighs.
“I’m trying to go slow and do the right thing here, beautiful. But if you keep responding to me the way you do or looking at me like you are right now, I don’t know how honorable I can be.” He paused, looking almost tortured. “I want nothing more than to lay you out on this counter and slip deep inside you and watch your orgasm take possession of this sweet body.”
“Oh God,” I gasped as wetness pooled between my legs and I tried to squeeze them shut again, only to have them pressed up against the sides of Bodie’s powerful thighs.
While I appreciated him thinking of me and having the inkling to go slow, for the first time I wanted to throw caution to the wind. Not thinking so much and being bad sounded divine to me.
What's happening to me?
Then, I remembered how I’d given in to Brett and the trouble that brought me after only a few dates. With Bodie, I wanted to climb him like a monkey and I’d never wanted that before. The man that stood in front of me would never push me to do anything I didn’t want to or hurt me physically. I knew that with every beat of my heart.
