Christmas at Gate 18 by Amy Matayo

Author:Amy Matayo [Matayo, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Amy Matayo
Published: 2017-10-09T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Rory

“Why is your hand there?” I whisper into my pillow.

“Where would you like me to put it?” His voice. It comes from behind me in a warm rush and feathers right into my ear. A chill crawls up my back, but I try hard to ignore it and work up some fake anger instead.

“Oh, I don’t know. Maybe somewhere that isn’t right between my thighs?”

I feel his hand come up and around and stop. Real funny.

“Is that better?” Another whisper. Another chill. Followed by a shudder. I hate my stupid reactions even more than I hate him.

“Now it’s on my chest.”

He moves his hand down an inch. “I’m sorry, I thought that was your stomach.”

“My stomach isn’t that round.”

“Well I mean, you did have a beer earlier…”

That’s it. I’m sick of him and his rude comments. I flip around in bed until we’re face to face. I don’t exactly mean to knee him in the groin, but it happens. Sue me.

He sucks in a breath and I smile in the darkness. There’s nowhere to put my arm except around his waist.

“Are you calling me fat?”

“I’m calling you…curvy.” His voice is tight with pain, and I breathe a little laugh. I pinch his side to annoy him.

“For your information, no woman likes to be called curvy no matter what the magazines say.”

“For your information, I don’t read the magazines. And you are curvy. In the best possible way.”

“I think I liked it better when your hand was between my thighs.”

He comes up on elbow and grins down at me. His expression is wicked and evil and I said the wrong thing. “Is that so? Because if you flip back over I can—”

“I meant because you weren’t talking then. I didn’t mean I actually enjoyed it.”

“Sure you didn’t.” He falls onto his back and gives a little stretch. The sheet slips a little, revealing the hard lines of a very well-defined bare chest in the moonlight. I stare a moment too long, and he notices. “Looks like you aren’t enjoying anything right now, too. You’ve got a little something right there…” He reaches up and touches a finger to the corner of my mouth. When I realize what he’s referring to, I slap his hand away.

“Don’t flatter yourself. I’m hardly drooling. Put on a shirt.” I flop down beside him, but he’s taking up the whole bed. I have no choice but to settle my neck in the crook of his arm. “You’re taking up the entire bed.”

He pushes against me, and I catch myself just before I fall to the floor. I give him a look and settle back into place, only this time I hook a leg over his and shove my elbow into his armpit.

“I take it back. You’re not curvy, you’re all sharp edges and protruding bones.”

“I bet you say that to all the girls.”

“No babe, only you.”

I blink up at the ceiling, unable to stop the grin that spreads across my face. Maybe it’s the way he says babe, or maybe it’s the slight possessiveness in his words, but I like the way they sound.

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