Rainy Day Friends by Jill Shalvis

Author:Jill Shalvis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Me: It’s going to be a great day.

Anxiety: Let me show you how wrong you are . . .

When Mark woke, it wasn’t to the warm, sensuous glide of Lanie’s limbs around his body, but to her trying to shove him out of his own bed.

“You’ve got to go,” she whispered.

He cracked open one eye. It was two in the morning. “Hmmm,” he murmured into her hair and pulled her into him, smiling at the feel of bare skin. He cupped her sweet ass and started to roll her beneath him, but she shoved at him again.

“Mark! Wake up!”

“I’m up,” he said and flopped to his back.

“Yes,” she said, eyeing the part of him that was most definitely up. “But that’s not what I meant!”

He snorted and sat up. “You’re panicking.”

“Yes! Join me, won’t you?” She yanked on his T-shirt and slid out of the bed. The cotton fell over her curves and made him sigh. Apparently round two wasn’t on the calendar.

She pulled him off the bed, tossed his clothes at him, and pushed him to the door.

“Shouldn’t I actually put these on first?” he asked wryly.

She stood there, arms crossed, toe tapping while he pulled on his board shorts. “Where’s the fire?” he asked.

“We can’t sleep in the same bed in your family house.”

“Actually, there hasn’t been all that much sleeping involved,” he said. “There was some nice begging, though, especially when I—”

“Oh my God.” She put a hand over his mouth, but she was laughing now. “I absolutely did not beg.”

He chuckled because she had so begged. Sweetly. Sexily. And now that he was thinking of it, he wanted to hear her do it again. And again . . .

“Look,” she said. “We agreed it’s okay to do . . . what we did. But sleeping together is different. It’s more. It’s . . . intimate.”

He felt his smile fade and he pulled her in for a hug, resting his jaw on the top of her head. “You need your space.”

She paused, and then pulled back and stared at his chest. “Yes. I need space.”

He lifted her chin and what he saw in her eyes made his heart constrict. “Us not getting involved emotionally is on me, Lanie,” he said. “Not you. Never you.”

She nodded, but he knew she didn’t understand and he felt like such an asshole. “Please tell me you believe me.”

“I—”

They both froze at the knock on the door, though Mark didn’t need a peephole to know who it was. At night his children tended to turn into dehydrated philosophers who needed lots of hugs. And yep, right on cue came . . .

“Daddy?” came Samantha’s little voice. “Me and Sierra are thirsty.”

He’d been a soldier. He was a cop. Both required catlike reflexes and instincts that had saved his life more than a few times. He was quick on his feet and he slept with one eye open. And yet in that moment, he was frozen. Not because his kids had found

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