Just Desserts by Mary Calmes

Author:Mary Calmes [Calmes, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

I WOKE up because my stomach was growling so loud it actually jolted me out of my sex coma. Scott was laughing from where he leaned in the doorway, sleep shorts and nothing else on. For some reason, the spatula in his hand and the dishtowel thrown over his shoulder were ridiculously hot.

“I’m hungry,” I grumbled.

“Yes, dear, I know.” He nodded, chuckling. “Get up and come out here.”

I climbed out of bed and pulled on my jeans but didn’t zip or snap them, just let them ride on my hips. He stopped me with a hand on my chest when I reached him in the kitchen. When my eyes met his, I noted the worry there.

“So,” I began softly, unsure what I was supposed to say. “You sure you wanna try this with me? I’m a dick to be around.”

He put the spatula down, then put his hands on my sides, and it was both possessive and tender. “Yes, Boone, I want to do everything with you. Especially have sex and sleep and cohabitate.”

I coughed. “You want to live with me?”

He answered without even a pause. “And keep this place as somewhere I can rent out or have guests stay or offer to friends for the night who shouldn’t drive… yes, dear. That’s what I want to do.”

It sounded like he’d already thought everything through and I was coming in late.

“What?”

“No moment of doubt? No worry? Just matter-of-fact about the moving in and then on to what you’re gonna do with this place?”

“Yeah,” he answered brightly, kissing under my jaw. “I want to move in. Why wouldn’t you know that already?”

I shook my head, giving up. “So, your place. You don’t want to sell it?”

“No. I mean, Florence and I get along well, and I don’t want her to have to get used to someone else. This way she’ll have solitude most times and company only a little. I think that might suit her.”

The lights flickered off and on, and lemongrass and honey scented the air. I looked around the apartment he owned and then back to him. “I think she likes the sound of that just fine.”

He curled into me, hands on my hips, head notched under my chin. “So you were maybe asking a down-the-road question about me moving in. Maybe you didn’t mean like right—”

“I was,” I confirmed while lifting his chin. “That way I can always keep an eye on you.”

His brows furrowed. “I don’t want to live with you because—”

“I know why ya wanna live with me,” I growled, taking his mouth in a hard, brutal kiss that went on until the irritation was over and he coiled his arms around my neck and melted. When I finally unsealed my lips from his, I realized he looked drunk. “You want to live with me because you want us to see if we can make this thing work.”

“Yes,” he whispered. “Except I don’t have to see anything.”

“What’re you talking about?”

“I know, Boone. I already know. You’re going to love living with me.

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