“No, I want to go swimming,” she said with a pout.
“We’re not going swimming.”
“I hate you.”
“Are we back to that?”
“We never left!”
7 A.M.
“Ummm, why are you lying on top of me?”
He didn’t bother opening his eyes or even lift his head from where it had been resting for the last four hours as he asked, “Are you still out of it?”
“I don’t think so,” Jodi said hesitantly as she sat up, causing her stomach muscles to tighten beneath his head.
“Thank God,” Danny mumbled, turning his head and pressing a kiss against her stomach, forcing himself to ignore the one place that his mouth had been watering to go all night.
Jaw clenched tightly, he averted his eyes as he climbed off Jodi and headed for the bathroom. He was trembling, Danny realized as he hurried across the room and closed the door behind him. He wanted her so much.
He wanted to crawl back into that bed, pull her into his arms, kiss her, run his hands all over her, kiss every inch of her body, slide his fingers deep inside her, suck and lick her beautiful bubblegum colored nipples before he moved his mouth down between her legs and licked her out until she was begging for his cock, until they both thought they would die if he didn’t fuck her.
God, he didn’t know how much longer he could do this. How much longer he could keep himself from touching her, from pulling her beneath him and sliding deep inside her as he lost himself in her.
But he wasn’t going to let his cock fuck up his game plan. Not if it meant losing her.
Chapter 21
Two months later…
“We have to stop,” Jodi groaned softly against his lips, but she didn’t loosen her death grip on his shoulders or stop grinding down on him. No, instead, she widened her legs, desperate to get closer.
“We’re taking it slow,” Danny ground out, one hand beneath her shirt, caressing her bare breast while his other hand shoved its way down the back of her pants, snaked beneath her panties and cupped her ass.
“We are taking it slow,” Jodi reminded him, grinding as hard as she could against the large bulge in his pants that had been driving her out of her mind for the past month.
They were taking things very slowly and it was killing her. For the first month, they’d kept it to short kisses stolen during their dates and even longer kisses goodnight. At some point in the last four weeks, she’d found herself climbing onto his lap, grinding down on him and…enjoying it.
It had surprised her just how much she liked it. She liked everything about him, from the way that his hand felt wrapped around hers, the way his lips felt against her skin, the way his hands moved over her, the way he held her, the way he made her heart race, and the way that he made her gasp. Over the past two months, he’d surprised and amazed her. He treated her like she was the most precious thing in the world to him.
He took her out on romantic dates, which usually ended in disaster, but left her smiling each and every time. He’d taken her on a romantic dinner cruise, taught her how to play laser tag, took her to play paintball in the woods, taught her to play basketball, taken her to a concert and a picnic, cooked her dinner, surprised her at her temporary office at City Hall most days with lunch, and just made her smile. It didn’t matter if he was burning dinner or accidentally setting his apartment on fire when he tried to surprise her with a candlelit dinner, he just had a way about him that made her smile.
Danny still irritated her from time to time, but now he apologized before she got a chance to come up with another way to get rid of his body. When he pissed her off, and he still did that frequently, he brought her flowers, chocolate, and a pint of ice cream to make up for it, along with an apology and a promise to try to stop being an asshole.
“Jodi,” Danny groaned loudly, making her smile because he only called her by her first name when he was nearing the point of no return. The point where he came close to saying the hell with it and forgetting about his plans to take this slowly.
“We should stop,” Jodi said, panting as she pulled back only to moan as he followed the move with his mouth and began licking and suckling her neck. She laid back against the steering wheel, pulled her legs up until they were bent and she’d shifted until her bottom was rubbing against the hard bulge in Danny’s pants. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders and groaned as he moved his hands to her hips.
“You feel so fucking good,” Danny groaned against her neck as he tightened his grip on her hips and moved her, shifting her back and forth across his lap.
She moaned loudly as she closed her eyes and allowed her head to drop back against the windshield as she lost herself in his touch.
“Are you wet for me?” Danny asked, moving her harder against him.
The only response she could manage was a moan, but it seemed to be the answer that he was looking for because he rewarded her with a hard rub.
“I bet you’re soaking wet, Jodi. I’d also be willing to bet that you’d be tight for me,” Danny growled against her skin, his hands moving her in a rhythm that had her gasping for air and grinding down on him harder. “I bet sliding inside you would feel better than-”
