But without a doubt, as I stared into his eyes and felt the heat of his palms sink into my legs, I knew he would break my heart if he ever walked away.
“I’m scared.” I hadn’t meant to let it slip out but it had.
“Me too, sweetheart.” He ran his knuckle tenderly down my cheek and I felt it to my soul.
He gathered me close to his chest and held me in his strong arms. It felt so good and my body relaxed in his embrace.
“How about we eat and watch a movie curled up on the couch? How does that sound?”
Was he for real?
He’d taken me to heaven and back earlier with just his mouth, leaving himself with the hard-on from hell, but he was willing to put all that aside to just chill with me on the couch? I was a lucky woman to have ever met the incredible man who I thought held my heart in the palm of his hands.
I wanted that moment with him. The one that felt like a date and two people getting to know each other. However, that didn’t mean fooling around was off the table. Or on the table in this case if he ever had his way. A giggle bubbled up inside me at the thought and broke free.
“I love the sound of that,” he whispered in my ear before kissing the spot just underneath it and sending goosebumps trickling all over my body.
Then he moved back and placed his hands back on my hips as he pulled me off the counter. “Let's get this date started,” he said as though he’d read my mind seconds before about how much I wanted it to be a date.
“I like the sound of that.”
His sexy grin sent my pulse racing.
* * *
I woketo the credits rolling on the movie we’d put on and Bodie staring down at me.
While I was tired, I think it was being cuddled up with the sexiest man alive as he rubbed my back that had me out like a light. I’d missed most of the show, but since I’d seen it before, I didn’t mind.
Besides, waking up to Bodie’s lips skimming across my forehead causing my eyes to flutter open so I could gaze into his deep mocha brown orbs was far better than any movie ever made.
“Hi,” I whispered.
His smile was devastatingly gorgeous and a shiver of lust ran through me. But nerves raced through my body too. I was very much out of my element and had no clue how to navigate around a man. Especially one as worldly and as experienced as Bodie.
“Hey,” he said as he brushed a lock of hair tenderly away from my face and ran his hand down the side of my neck.
“Sorry I fell asleep on you. Some date, huh?”
“I’m just glad you're not hiding from me anymore,” he teased. “Besides, any time I spend with you, sleeping or awake, is amazing.”
“Why?” I blurted before I could think better of it.
I couldn’t understand why a man like Bodie would be attracted to me or interested at all. What if he changed his mind after my heart was even more invested? Would I survive losing someone else that I cared about?
And that was when it hit me.
I was already invested. I already cared too much.
He traced the line of my brow. “What are you worrying about?”
There was no way I could tell him what I’d been thinking. He’d think I was insane spitting out so much about the way he made me feel or how I cared. I shoved that shit-show deep and tried for a smile to change things up.
“I was just thinking about the girls. Have you heard from them and are they doing okay?” It may have not been what I was thinking seconds before but I had wondered how they were doing.
He cocked his head a bit, studying me for a moment. I didn’t think he believed me, but in the end, he let me off the hook. There was also the fact that I’d asked about his pride and joys.
“They are having the time of their lives according to the last text I got from Gyth.” He glanced at the watch on his thick, sexy wrist. “But since it’s midnight, I’m assuming they are asleep.”
