“Why not?”
His question had her frowning.She’d totally gotten lost in a sea of thoughts about suits.“Why not, what?”
He snorted.“Why aren’t you comfortable?”
She swallowed, taken aback by his ease at stripping off in front of her—like he’d done it a thousand times.Like this wasn’t the first time he’d done it with her.She wasn’t sure if such confidence was irritating or touching.“The bed’s too big.”
“It won’t be when I’m in it.”
Her eyes widened.“Are you sleeping with me tonight?”
He nodded.“You have a problem with that?”The question could have implied vulnerability, but it didn’t.Trip seemed entirely secure of his position in her world.
“No,” she said softly, plucking at the duvet.“I just…”
“What?”he asked, brows cocked as he shrugged out of his shirt, then got to work on his fly.
Her throat was a little dry as he revealed more of himself.Not that she hadn’t already seen it.After all, he’d shifted in midair the other day to dive bomb into the pool, and then, in the water, when the jerk had dragged her under, she’d touched all that yummy nakedness and had seen his lovely butt when he’d scampered out of the pool after they’d swum together.
“How did you decide who’d sleep with me?”
“Well, we didn’t have a conversation about it, if that’s what you mean.”He snorted.“We didn’t roll up our sleeves and get into a fistfight over who’d snore next to you tonight.”
She frowned even though she knew his intention had been to make her laugh.“Then how did you know it was your turn?”
“You’re making too much out of this,” he said softly, and stepped out of his pants, shoes, and socks seemingly in one move.
She eyed the bulge in his boxers, gulped, and watched as he stepped toward the bed, lifted the duvet, and climbed in beside her.She yelped when he immediately huddled next to her, wrapped an arm around her waist, and tugged her into him.
“So, I’m guessing you don’t need a lot of space in bed, huh?”she said wryly as he pressed his face against her shoulder.
“Nah, why would I?Had an empty bed all these years.Nice for you to be taking up a big chunk of it.”
She elbowed him in the side.“Less of the big, bud,” she chided, but she wasn’t offended.If anything, she was amused.
He sighed, squeezed her a little.“Perfect.Go to sleep.”
Almost as though his words were a magic charm, he did.And, astonishingly enough, he got a hard on.Well, that was a first.A cock prodding her butt while the man was snoring next to her ear?It was like giving with one hand, and taking away with the other.
Her lips twitched at the thought.It wasn’t like she could even think he wasn’t interested in her.His cock told her that.But the fact he’d fallen asleep as soon as he’d snuggled up beside her?Was that beyond cute, or what?
Well, this ‘roughing’ wasn’t going down how she’d imagined, El thought ruefully.
Sighing, she settled into his hold, and had to admit, it felt pretty damn good.If anything, it felt like heaven.She was safe.She knew that.Maybe for the first time in her life, too.
Shawn had always protected her.But he was one man against a world of people who, at times, felt like they were all out for a piece of her.
Now?She had four men, and three of those four brought with them a body of people who would die to protect her because she was their leader’s woman.
It was amazing, and crazy, and bizarre, but it helped do what nothing ever had… within moments of relaxing into his hold, she slept.
Hours, days, moments later, she woke up with a moan.A mouth was tugging at her nipple and her eyes flared open with astonishment.Then, her brain kicked into gear and she remembered she was no longer single, but somehow, had four men now.
Four.
One felt like a lot.Two was greedy, but four?She didn’t even have an adjective to describe how salacious that was.
Trip robbed her of thoughts though when he began to toy with her other nipple with his fingers, plucking at it like she was a finely tuned violin in need of playing.She arched her hips as sensation hit her, and she loved that he wasn’t looming over her, the only weight he placed on her was his leg, which he’d cocked over one of hers so that he could gain enough leverage to toy with her boobs.
