“It isn’t.”
“Okay.”
“It isn’t,” he stressed.
“Okay,” she snapped.“Jeez.Stop being allsupportive and sweet.It’s annoying.”
He grinned down at her.“Right, I’ll snap into being anasshole.How’s that go again?”
“You know, in this moment it’s troublesome you’ve no cluehow to do that.”
“I could share that the first time I had your face in mylap, this wouldn’t be my call on how you’d be using it.”
She rolled her eyes and mumbled, “That works.”She stoppedmumbling to tell him, “Though I will say my blowjob plans being indefinitelydelayed pisses me off.”
“We’ll get there,” he told her.
She narrowed her eyes at him.“Not a lot of dudes would befree and breezy with indefinitely delayed blowjobs.”
“The guy who did this to you is fucked,” he announced.“He’sgoing to be charged on some serious felonies, three of them Federalindictments.It’s doubtful bail will be set, and if it is, he can’t afford topost it.You’re safe.You got a lot of people who love you and will look outfor you.I got all that and I’m with you in your bed, somewhere I’ve wanted tobe for what feels like years.I’mgonnasleep besideyou here tonight, not on that fuckin’ couch.And I’mgonnawake up next to you tomorrow.With all that, I can wait for a blowjob.”
Her pretty hazel eyes warmed and she pulled herself up soshe was curled in a ball in his lap, not beside him on the bed, her cheektucked tight to his chest, his arms around her.
Her head in his lap didn’t suck, no matter how he had it.
But still, having her in his arms was a whole lot better.
“I don’t like that I didn’t handle things too well,” shetold his pec.
“You handled them fine,” he told the top of her head,pulling her closer.
“I buried it.Acting strong isn’t the same asbeingstrong.”
“Whatever works, works.”
She tipped her head back.“I fell apart, Mo.Lost it infront of everybody.”
“Do you think any of those men care you lost it in front ofthem?”
“I—”
“Lawson’s kicking himself in the ass a million differentways, he laid it out for you and the way he did,” he shared.“Education,Lottie.Those men love you.As for Lawson and Lucas, they respect you.And theonly thing they’refeelin’ now is honored you’d trustthem enough to show weakness.I’ll tell you what, if Tex, Eddie, Hank, Luke andthe rest had a choice, onlyone, either to be there for you and catchthat guy or be there for you to catchyou, they’d pick the second.Ina way, they got that.So move on.They have.”
“But, they’re action men.”
“They’re men like me,” he declared, and her eyes widened.“When I saw him and knew it was him, my skin itched to be out there to take himdown.But every other part of me needed to bewith you.Trust me.Youdidn’t fight Smithie’s decision to keep them in the dark and I can tell youfeel bad about that.But they got to be in on the important part, being herenowfor you, and they know it.So get over it.It’s all cool.”
“Right.You’re hot.Have a huge cock.You’re spectacular inbed.You approve of my OCD tendencies.Andyou’re quick as a whip?”
He grinned at her.“That’s me.”
“Then I hit the mother lode.”
Because he could.
He did.
That being, he pulled her up even as he dipped down, and hetook her mouth.
