I laughed, diving under the blanket and climbing on top of him.
Morning breath discouraged me from kissing him, but it didn’t stop me rubbing our noses together. “Your nose is huge and I love it,” I said, giddy with the cozy playfulness still trapped under the blanket with us this morning.
“You know what they say about men with big noses,” Hayden said solemnly.
“I’m gonna assume it’s that they have big dicks,” I said. “Because you do have a big dick.”
Hayden snorted, rocking his hips and reminding me justhowbig it was.
“Stop that,” I ordered. “I’m supposed to be checking your abdominal segments. This is important scientific research.”
Hayden laughed as I crawled down his body, trailing kisses along the center of his chest, nuzzling his belly button once I got to it. His cock was still half-hard and tempting, but I had an important job to do.
“Okay.” I splayed my fingers over his stomach. “I feel like there’s one here,” I said, tracing a shape on his belly. “One here,” I added, tracing another. “And then two more, here and here.”
Hayden gasped as I ran my fingers over him, back arching as he squirmed under me.
“So that’s… four,” I said.
“Four?” Hayden raised an eyebrow.
“Listen, you’re maybe the sexiest man I’ve ever slept with, but you’re not exactly ripped,” I said, poking at Hayden’s stomach. I liked his body exactly the way it was, but washboard abs weren’t one of the features.
“Maybethe sexiest?” Hayden asked, eyebrow inching higher.
“Almost certainly the sexiest?” I tried.
“Really?” Hayden asked. “That’s as good as I’m getting?”
“There are ways to upgrade your rating,” I said, leaning into it now. I’d been afraid Hayden might be sensitive, considering everything, but I could see he was having fun.
“I’ll showyouways to upgrade my rating,” he said, going straight for my ribs with long, strong fingers and making me dissolve into giggles, helpless against being tickled.
“This isnotone of the ways,” I gasped between fits of laughter, tears coming to my eyes as I bit down on my hand to stop myself from squealing loud enough for Mr. Lewis to hear.
Hayden took advantage, rolling me off him and onto my back, pinning me to the bed, one hand curled around my shoulder, the other hovering over my side, poised to strike.
“Sexiest man you’ve ever slept with,” he insisted.
“Are you sure you don’t want sexiestperson? Because I’ve slept with people who aren’t men.”
“Good point,” Hayden agreed. “Sexiest person.”
I grinned up at him. “What do I get out of this deal?”
“I’ll forget I know you’re ticklish,” Hayden said, fingers trailing threateningly over my ribs.
I didn’t believe him for a second.
“I want something else if I’m gonna bestow an honor likethaton you,” I said, although I was struggling to remember a partner who I actually thought was sexier than Hayden.
That didn’t mean I couldn’t get something out ofadmittingit.
Hayden hummed, looking me up and down, and then disappeared under the blanket that’d been draped over his shoulders a moment ago, mouthing at my ticklish sides and making me burst into giggles all over again.
“What’re youdoing?” I asked, squirming under him as he kissed his way across my stomach.
“Counting your segments,” Hayden mumbled, muffled under the blanket.
