Hold Me by Anne Marsh

Author:Anne Marsh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-01-29T19:05:23+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Peony

“UNTIE ME.”

I stretch wiggling my wrists at Jax. An hour ago—or two or three—he convinced me that tonight’s game should be dirty tie-me-up sex. I offered to tie him up so he could see how he liked it, but he refused. Jax prefers to be the one in control, and most of the time I indulge him. He promised I’d like what he did to me, and he was right. I’ve come so many times that my butt will be sore tomorrow from the clenching.

He brushes a kiss over my throat, and the rasp of his stubble-roughened jaw makes me shiver. “I still have some ideas. Let me show you.”

I’m tempted, but that’s the problem, isn’t it? I’d let Jax do anything and everything. I’ve given in on our summer living arrangements, and now I basically live with him. He won’t take money from me and the series of temp jobs I’ve worked this summer certainly don’t pay enough for me to pay San Francisco rent.

Not for the first time, I wonder what exactly he does with his laptops. Asking seems like a boundary, though. An important one. He disappears during the workweek, like I do, and then we come home to each other, kiss, and fall into bed. We’re a bedroom couple, a hookup on repeat. If I ask him about his day, he’ll be more than just my fuck buddy. I think we could be friends.

Or something more.

Familiar panic bubbles up in me, freezing my chest in an icy knot. I can’t have feelings for him. I can’t, I can’t, I can’t. My lungs tighten on nothing. There’s no air in here, just Jax and more Jax. When I breathe, he’s everywhere. He’s inside me, part of me, inescapable.

“Peony?” His warm mouth brushes my ear, his big fingers covering the ribbons that he’s tied me up with, the ribbons I’ve gift-wrapped myself in for him.

I scramble onto my knees. Jax shifts with me, until he’s sitting on the bed. His dark eyes watch me carefully. “What’s wrong?”

“I have to go. Away. I’ve got a thing with my sister this weekend. I promised I’d be there and she needs me.”

He processes this for a moment, his dark gaze inscrutable. I’ve never lied to him before, not directly, and I’m not even doing it well. My story has a million holes, starting with the fact that it’s dark o’clock.

“Where do you need to go? I can take you.”

“I’ve got it. It’s fine.” I tug at the ribbons with my teeth because fuck waiting for him to undo me.

“Let me help.” He hesitates, his gaze fixed on the ribbons, but then he cups my hands in his and starts undoing the knots. It’s stupid that I want to push him away. I’m sure I look like a rabid animal stuck in a trap or something. It’s definitely not good for my teeth and dentistry is one more thing on my Can’t Afford list.

When the knot comes undone, he pulls the ribbons off and tosses them away.

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