“And my stamina is just fine, sweetheart. One day soon you are going to find out just how good it is.”
Have I mentioned before that Bodie was lethal?
The girls, who were oblivious to the conversation that their father and I were having, leaned over to hug me.
“Summer is coming to pick us up to have a sleepover,” Peyton said.
“But we will miss you,” Piper told me softly.
Gah, they were sweet. I adored them both even with different personalities. Peyton was a firecracker and funny. Piper was talking more, but still had a softer nature about her. Both of them spoke to me on so many levels.
“I’ll miss both of you too.”
After the goodbyes were made, they jumped off the bed and ran out of the room, leaving their dad standing by the bedside.
He looked at me and an odd expression crossed his face before he spoke. “Since the girls are going to be gone all night, are you feeling up to going out to dinner?” Bodie’s face now looked like a bundle of hope and nerves.
“As in, a date?” I stared at him, my nerves now zipping through me as I held my breath, waiting for his response.
Please say yes.
“I’d like it to be if that’s what you want?”
My face broke out in a smile. “I want.”
He grinned back at me. “I’ll even take you to pick up whatever Christmas stuff you were saying you needed.” Then he leaned over and gave me a soft kiss on the lips before standing up again.
The kiss, along with the thought of going out, had my heart racing since the last time I tried to go Christmas shopping I was shot and it caused the accident. A shiver rippled through me but I shoved it down. Christmas was only a few days away and I wasn’t going to let anything stop me from having a happy holiday.
Plus, that night we’d be alone which made me giddy because I planned on making Bodie realize I was healed enough for him to have his way with me.
It was abigstep. One I hadn’t taken with anyone.
But he was the one.
I knew that to the depths of my soul.
“Sounds great,” I told him. He didn’t know I was planning a seduction later that night.
“You rest a bit longer and I’ll see the girls off then come back and shower so we can get ready to go do whatever you need.”
I groaned inside when he said shower. Sometimes if the girls weren’t up, I would hear him in the shower as I lay in bed and I’d picture what he’d look like naked, soap and water cascading down his muscular body.
It was pure torture.
When I offered to shower with him one day, he said, “Love, take pity on a man.Yourman.” I’d swooned when he said he was mine. “I’m only so strong and trying to do the right thing. But trust me, you’ll be there with me soon. In the shower, under me, and if I’m reading the room right by your lust-filled eyes right now, I’ll be planted deep inside your sweet body in the very near future.”
I’d been sexually frustrated for days. To be honest, since I’d never had sex I probably didn’t even know what that truly meant, but I figured it felt something like what I was feeling right then after he spoke to me the way he had and then left me high and dry.
Maybe it was the equivalent to a case of female blue balls.
Bodie was heading toward the door to follow the twins when something occurred to me and a devious smile took form. Good thing Bodie had his back to me and didn’t see it.
“I’ll be back in a few.” Then he was gone.
The man wasn’t going to know what hit him. He’d been killing me as I listened to his showers and now it was payback time.
Because I just realized the seductions didn’t have to wait until nighttime.
