Chapter 5
After reading the first half ofBeauty and the Beast, Raine dozed off in myarms.
“Did she fall asleep quick?” Abel asked from the couch in the living room as I grabbed a beer from thefridge.
Taking a seat next to him, I nodded. “She’sprecious.”
“She’s pretty amazing for sure.” He wrapped his arm around me, pulling me into his rock hardchest.
“I’ll take you to get your car in the morning.” He kissed the top of my head. “I can take you back to the motel now though, if youwant.”
There was not a snowball’s chance in hell that I wanted to go back to the motel and leave his arms, but my brain was telling me that I still didn’t know this guy and that I should have my guard and high ass walls up to protectmyself.
“I don’t want to go. Today has been more perfect than I can reallyexplain.”
“What hurt you so badly, babe? Why are you running fromsomething?”
I sighed into him. “I don’t know if I should put it into words or just let all the bad memories die in the past where theybelong.”
Abel pulled me onto his lap. “We all got some skeletons, Crickett. As long as we don’t let them define us then we can move on. Stop letting them have a hold on you. Don’t let themwin.”
“We just met, but I feel like I was supposed to comehere.”
He hugged me to him. “Good, because I knew the moment I saw you and those bright red lips of yours that you were sent here for me toknow.”
It was so cliché but right then, he grabbed a fistful of my hair and pulled me in for another show-stopping kiss. My body buzzed just from our lips connecting. It was freakingincredible.
I pulled away from him. “Maybe we shouldn’t.” I bit my lip. It was better to at least try to be hard to get, even if my lady parts were screaming forhim.
“I can make up the couch for you or take you back. It’s up to you.” He leaned down and kissed right under my ear, whispering softly, “Or I have a very comfortable bed upstairs. We can just sleep. I can be a gentleman when I have tobe.”
I nodded, getting up from his lap. “Yeah.Ok.”
We made our way up to his room, on the opposite side of the house from Raine’s, which made me feel way more comfortable. If I was going to sleep with her father, I didn’t want her to hearus.
“Here.” Abel handed me a faded AC/DC shirt and a pair of basketball shorts. “You can sleep in these. The bathroom is there if you want to change with someprivacy.”
“Where did you come from?” I laughed quietly, taking the clothes and heading to thebathroom.
“What?” He smiled his killer panty-dropping smile while pulling his cut and shirt off and tossing them on the armchair in the corner of theroom.
“You’re just like a freaking Prince Charming swooping in to save the damsel.” I had to take a minute to catch my breath as I gaped at his chiseled abs and rock hard tattooed chest. I hadn’t thought it was possible for him to be any hotter than what I had pictured, but right there he was proving me wrong. The words “respect few, fear none” were etched into his skin with a badass skull in the middle. I was a total sucker for a guy with sexytattoos.
He took a few steps toward me, then put his hands on my hips. His eyes were soft and deep as he looked into mine. “I’ll be Prince Charming if you need one, but trust me, this prince has a rough side to him. It’s just…for some reason you don’t bring out that part of me. Maybe later.” He winked and quickly smacked my ass. “Now get changed. I’m fuckingexhausted.”
His hand hitting my ass made my sex clench and my heart start racing. I wanted him more than ever right then. The image of just pouncing on him was all too tempting, but I really wanted to take things slower than I had so far. I was already about to climb into bed with the guy, maybe I shouldn’t give all the milk away for free within the first few days of knowinghim.
We climbed into bed and within ten minutes we were both sound asleep. I had a peaceful night full of steamy flashes of everything I wanted Abel to do to me, from deep sensual kisses all the way to tying me to his bed and coming on my face, with so many more fun adventures inbetween.
I was slowly brought out of my dream-filled sleep by Abel wrapping his arms around me and kissing myneck.
“Morning.” I yawned, rolling in his arms to look into his sleepyeyes.
“Mornin’sugar.”
I gently kissed his lips. “What time isit?”
There was barely any light coming in from the window; it had to be the ass crack ofdawn.
