Falling for Carla: A Secret Baby Mafia Romance by Annie J. Rose

Author:Annie J. Rose [Rose, Annie J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

DRAKE

Realistically I knew that making her eggs the morning after didn’t make me less of a jerk. I felt like a grade-A asshole for taking advantage of Carla’s emotional state and kissing her mouth when she tried to give me a polite kiss on the cheek.

I had known exactly where it would lead. The second my tongue slid in her mouth, and I had my first taste of her, the die was cast. We’d burn up the sheets all night. There was no stopping and no looking back. I knew how combustible we were on a normal day. After the horror and grief of yesterday, she would’ve turned to me for comfort. When I’d made a big deal about giving her the key and been really clear that I wasn’t going to sleep with her, I had meant it. But when I kissed her, I meant that too.

I hadn’t been this confused about a woman since I was seventeen years old and had no idea what to do with one. If there was a woman out there who could bring even a seasoned bachelor to his knees, it was Carla Russo.

While I fried bacon, I beat myself up for last night. I couldn’t take it back, but I could apologize and let her know it was a mistake. I was low-key rehearsing what I would say to her without making excuses when she walked in. I dropped the goddamn spatula I was holding when I saw her.

She walked into the kitchen wearing only my t-shirt that covered her to the midthigh. All the rest of those long legs that had been wrapped around me when she wrung the strongest orgasm of my life out of me were exposed to the light. I wanted to rip off the shirt and drop to my knees and taste her, hook one of those long legs over my shoulder and eat her out for breakfast. I may have made a strangled sound of misery. Then the bacon in the skillet popped and spattered hot grease on my arm.

“Shit!” I said, stepping back and wiping my arm off. Then I turned to her. “I mean, good morning.”

She grinned, a wide, too-happy smile that I felt awful about. She probably thought since she was staying with me that she needed to act like I hadn’t been an insensitive alpha male asshole the night before. Even though pretending didn’t seem much like the Carla I knew, I still hated myself for her smile perhaps most of all.

She sidled up to me and slid her arms around my waist. She was lifting her face for a kiss. Jesus. This could not happen again. I stepped back out of her reach.

“Breakfast is ready,” I said brightly and directed her to a stool at the bar. I slid eggs and bacon onto a plate and poured her some orange juice.

“Thanks, it smells delicious,” she said, taking a bite of her crisp bacon. “Yum!”

I sat down and ate my eggs in silence.

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