Well, I can’t even blame her for that one.
She opens the back door before I can and stops. “There’s a car seat in here,” Aurora states with a frown, looking at me. “I didn’t know you have kids.”
“I don’t.”
“Then wh—”
“It’s for Emett. He uses a booster seat, right?”
Aurora’s soft lips part, then close as a hard lump works itself down her slender throat and part open again.
My cock thickens inside my jeans, instantly, painfully pressing against the zipper. The fucker doesn’t care that we can’t like the woman, or that right now is not the time, and I don’t either, not when my eyes are fixed on those soft lips. Not when my body is burning with the need to draw close, to feel her warmth and bathe in her scent.
Not when I want to wrap my hand around that slender throat and feel that wild beat of the heart that doesn’t belong to her as she takes me again and again. As I mark her and consume her until no secrets could draw us apart.
My eyes drop to her heaving chest that betrays her thoughts like a lie detector, and I’m a second away from snapping and taking what I want when…
“Sweet!” Emett’s excited squeal douses us both with a bucket of ice-cold reality, and we shift, almost bumping into each other as we both try to help him into the seat.
Aurora shakes her head, taking the lead, and I walk around to the driver’s side, starting the car as she buckles him in before getting into the passenger’s seat herself, and despite the silence, the tension is very loud.
Emett starts his own conversation with Kevin the police bear, explaining to him what’s going on.
“It was the wrong bear?” I ask quietly.
Aurora wets her lips but doesn’t look my way. “The last one was about seven inches tall and resided at a local gas station before I bought him for Emett.”
“Oh.”
“You didn’t have to get him anything, but thank you, it made his morning, and I’ll pay you back when—”
“Go ahead, Lychik, finish that sentence. Give me a reason to put my hand on your ass.”
I hear the sharp breath she draws into her lungs but will my eyes to stay on the road.
They need to fucking stay on the road because if I look at her, I’ll lose it. And we have a kid in the back and a chest of secrets between us.
Aurora promptly clamps her lips shut and joins me at staring out the window as we drive through the small town to the sound of Emett’s chatter.
Not five minutes later, we’re entering the private road leading to their house.
Without uttering a single word, Aurora gets out, unbuckles Emett, and directs him into the house, but before I can enter as well, she stops me, and my eyes drop to the blush covering her cheeks.
“Why do you have a booster seat for Emett in your car?”
“I just do.”
“That’s not an answer.”
“Well, that’s the only one I’ve got.” And ain’t that the truth, because I still don’t understand what possessed me to make that stop at the department store on the way here and get the damn car seat, but I did.
She goes to say something else when the front door flies open. “Hey, what are you guys doing out here? Come on, I’m hungry,” Emett says, and Aurora swiftly moves inside with me on her heels.
The place is tiny and beat up, but it’s clean and smells like home.
“Betsy! We have guests for dinner!” Emett runs down the hall screaming as Aurora takes off her shoes, ignoring my presence.
A moment later, the same nurse with a short blonde bob streaked with gray walks out, her coat and bag in hand. “Hello there, Severin, right?” she asks with a smile but it’s a cautious one and I nod, greeting her. “Well, you guys have a good dinner, I’m off.”
