Hard Burn by Cathryn Fox

Author:Cathryn Fox [Fox, Cathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cathryn Fox

5

Josh

Ember begins to shiver in my arms and I’m not sure if she’s cold or reacting to me telling her I missed her. Our past isn’t a great one. I lost everyone I loved that day in her brother’s room. Maybe going forward, I can change that. I might not be able to mend things with Liam, but I’m beginning to believe I can with her. She told me she missed me and I’m grasping her words tight in my heart, hoping for a fresh start. I want us to build something new—something better. If that’s what she wants.

It’s true, I don’t deserve her. I don’t deserve love after the way I treated her brother and hurt her with my callus words. Tonight, though, I can’t help but want to grasp this opportunity to start again, to make things right. I don’t have sex before a big game. It’s a ridiculous superstition, but something I’ve stuck to none the less. Right now, though, I’m not going to miss this chance with Ember. The game is important to me for sure, the most important one of my career so far. Ember, however, is the most important woman in the world to me, and I need to show her that.

“Let’s get you inside and warmed up.”

She nods, and brushes water from her bottom lip. Unable to help myself, I bend and press my lips to hers. She moans into my mouth, her sounds telling me she wants this as much as I do, but I need to hear it from her.

“Em,” I whisper. “Do you want this?”

“I want this,” she says so softly she’s hard to hear.

“Back in college—” She puts her finger over my lips, shutting down my apology. I’ve thought long and hard over the years at how I handled that situation. I did everything wrong.

“The past…” she whispers. “Not right now, Josh. Please.”

“Okay.” I carry her from the pool and water drips at our feet. Thank God her purse didn’t take a swim. I snatch it up and carry her inside. All eyes turn to us, and I keep my head down and walk straight to the elevator. I press her floor and we remain silent, her body shivering in my arms as I carry her to her room, open the door and take her inside.

I set her down by the bed, and she tugs on her dress. “I need to warm up.”

“You have two options.”

She blinks up at me and I continue with, “You can jump in the shower, or I can strip off your wet clothes and warm you with my hands and mouth.”

Her body quakes, and her breathing comes a little faster. “I think I like option two.”

“Yeah, me too.” I close the distance between us, and walk around her to unzip her dress. She quivers as I slide it down her wet flesh, and let it pool at her feet. I lightly run my fingers up and down her arm to create heat with friction and she moans, her wet hair spilling down her back as her head rolls to the side.

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