Gimme Some Sugar by Sawyer Bennett

Author:Sawyer Bennett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Big Dog Books, LLC
Published: 2020-07-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Larkin

The bright light penetrates through my eyelids and brings me to awareness of morning. I stretch and let out a yawn, but I keep my eyes closed, hoping to drift back off again. It’s not often I get to sleep in. Christmas morning is one of those few precious days I close the bakery down. I don’t have any obligations other than to snuggle in my bed and wake up at my leisure.

I don’t have to be at the bed and breakfast because Mely and Lowe are back in town and have assumed the helm again. I can choose to get up and have a leisurely breakfast or I can snuggle deeper under my comforter and get a little more shut eye.

I think the concept of being lazy and sleeping in is the best idea, so I burrow under the covers a little deeper.

Except it seems a little hot.

Confining.

Maybe even suffocating.

Something heavy is around my midsection. Suddenly, I freeze with utter awareness. My eyes flutter open, and I stare at my open bathroom door from my bed as I realize… there’s someone in my bed with me.

Not someone.

A man.

I’m pulled tight into his body, which feels like a rock-hard wall behind me. His heavy arm is around my midsection, holding me close.

Deacon Locke.

Deacon Locke is still in my bed.

A rush of memories from last night assault me, and I can feel my face heat up. It flames even hotter when I realize I’m actually naked in bed with Deacon, and I really have to pee. I hadn’t felt it when I first woke up, but now I have a ton of stress crashing down on me because I’m naked and there’s a naked man, too, and it makes me have to pee even worse now.

The anxiety intensifies when I realize I’m going to have to get out of bed naked. He’s going to see my butt as I walk away from the bed and toward the bathroom.

I give a tentative tug on the sheet around us, hoping I can pull it out and wear it as a shroud. My clothes are over by my door because that is where he put me down and started undressing me last night when he brought me to my bedroom.

Oh God… This is horrible.

I take a moment and listen, instantly recognizing his deep inhale and exhale as sleep.

Slowly, I reach out and grip the edge of the mattress with my hand and try to drag myself gently out of his embrace. He doesn’t acknowledge the move other than his arm tightening slightly. I hold my breath and wait. His deep breaths reassure me that he is oblivious to what I’m doing.

I start to try to pull myself loose again, relieved when I actually make a little bit of progress.

But then I’m stopped cold when I hear his husky, sleep-filled voice. “Where are you going, Larkin?”

God, but does that rumbling voice send shivers up my spine.

“I have to pee,” I mutter.

I can feel Deacon jolt, then he shifts before pushing up to hover over me.

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