“Of course she does. Because I love you, and she’ll love you because I love you. Because even though webothwere hurt while we were apart, we’re goin’ to make each other so happy now.”
I sniffed, unsure of what else to say. I swung my legs over his and shuffled into his lap. He held me tighter. “I’m sorry.”
He gently grasped my chin between his thumb and finger and turned me to look at him. “I’m sorry too. But we’re okay now. We’re good.” His brow pinched as his eyes flicked between mine. “Right? I know you didn’t want her to know, but… you’re not gonna run away again, are you?”
The vulnerability in his expression and voice cut me like a blade. I wrapped my arms around him and pulled him into a firm kiss. “I won’t run away again.”
Tension melted from his body as he nodded. “Good. Whatever happens, we’re in it together.”
Together. I buried my face in the warmth of his neck, breathing in my favorite scent and letting it ease all the fear.
“She might have seen the butt plug,” I murmured against his skin.
He laughed, loud and warm. “She’s seen worse.” He kissed the top of my head. “But maybe we get you dressed before we go back down. I don’t want anyone seein’ that perfect ass but me.”
I nodded and took one more deep inhale of him before letting go as we stood up.
Benny grabbed the bags I’d dropped on the floor and tipped them onto the bed. They’d been full of clothes, in pastels and bright colors. Clothes clearly meant for me.
“You went shopping for me?”
“I think you look so sexy in your suit, baby, but wearin’ those pants and comfortably relaxin’ just don’t exist in the same room as each other.”
I huffed and looked through what he’d collected. Everything was so soft. Hoodies, T-shirts, sweatpants, shorts. There was nothing black. The only thing that wasn’t brightly colored were light gray sweats, so I pulled those on. And as much as I wanted to stay in his giant hoodie, I decided to swap it, at least whileGinny was here, to one of the new ones. My options were light pink or yellow. The pink was softer, but I’d never worn that color in my life, and I’d had enough new things for one day, so I went with the yellow.
“We should probably go back down, huh?”
“Probably,” he agreed.
He was so beautiful and sexy, with his short hair still messy from our passionate night, a loose-fitting T-shirt, and sweatpants that looked impossibly stylish. How? They weresweatpants.
My chest ached with warmth and appreciation. I loved him. I loved him more than I’d ever loved anyone and I didn’t know what to do with it all, how to express it to him. It was too big a feeling for a creature like me.
“What?” he asked after I’d been staring for too long.
Instead of answering, I dropped to my knees in front of him and pulled his pants and boxers down.
He gasped. “My Ma is still downstairs.”
I looked up at him as my hand stroked his hardening cock. “You better be quiet, then.”
thirty-three
Harper
FAMILY DINNER.
Over the next few weekends, Ginny continued to pop in unannounced ateveryopportunity. I found I preferred to stay at Benny’s house rather than my apartment as there were fewer eyes on us here, but after she’d loudly slammed the front door during what had been a mind-blowing blow job and entirely ruined the mood, we’d decided we needed to do something about it. Benny had tried taking her key. She’d always find another one.
When we confronted her, she promised she’d stop—or at least let us know before she showed up—on the condition that I started coming to family dinner.
That left us either closing ourselves in at my apartment… or me surrendering to her terms.
My apartment wasn’t much better. He was quieter about it, but Matthew couldn’t stop himself from sneaking in and making us lunch or dinner or dropping something off.
Between the both of them, Benny wasn’t naked anywhere near as much as I wanted him to be, and while we’d managed to cross off a decent amount of his movie list and determined that I didnot like video games, I needed to secure more alone time with him.
Ginny had been ecstatic when I’d finally agreed to come to dinner this week. She’d even told me I could bring my parents since “we were all family now,” and while hell would freeze over before that happened, I also wasn’t going to face the wolves alone.
