Secret Santa by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: holiday romance, Christmas, friends to lovers, best friends
Publisher: Noelle Adams
Published: 2019-12-10T16:00:00+00:00

Six

I’VE KNOWN JEREMY FOR more than twelve years, and one of the things I know best about him is that he prepares himself for disappointment. He expects it, and he makes choices based on that expectation. I’ve never blamed him for it. I can’t imagine anyone with his upbringing learning to live any other way.

No matter how hard he’s trying or how much he wants something, he’ll always assume disappointment is just around the corner.

He was expecting disappointment tonight. He was expecting rejection. And he was having trouble wrapping his mind around the fact that I didn’t tell him a flat-out no.

But this...

This is something else.

I’m not just not telling him no. I’m telling him yes when it’s the last thing he believed could happen.

I see the series of emotions pass over his face. Confusion. Shock. Uncertainty. Hope. Surprise. Hope. Disbelief. Hope. Joy.

Hope.

He doesn’t say a word. He barely even moves. But the muscles in his jaw twitch. The corners of his mouth rise and fall very slightly. And his eyes transform as he processes what I just told him.

Finally, after he swallows so hard I can see it in his throat, he breathes, “What?”

“You heard me.” I raise a hand to cup his cheek. “I want to spend the night with you.”

“But... but... we were going to take it slow.”

“I don’t want to take it slow. Maybe it’s smarter, but I’m not a smart person. I follow my heart. And everything in my heart is telling me to do this right now.” I lick my lips because they feel too dry. “So if that’s what you want too, then please stay.”

He makes a hoarse sound and grabs my head with both hands, pulling me toward him and then leaning down into a hard kiss.

It’s not sweet and questioning like the kiss we had. It’s hard and hungry and utterly thrilling. He’s devouring me. Drinking me in. I hold on and open my mouth to the advance of his tongue. My knees go so weak I would fall if I weren’t hanging on to him.

It’s not even a minute before we end up on the bed. I’m not sure how we got there. Maybe we fell over on it without ever breaking the kiss. But I’m on my back on top of the covers, and Jeremy has climbed on top of me. He’s kissing me just as hungrily as before, and the weight of his body is pressing down into me.

Nothing has ever felt so good. Or sexy. And somehow safe at the exact same time.

My head spins, and my blood pulses in my veins. The room—the whole world—is throbbing around me.

Because Jeremy Carson is kissing me.

The hard bulge of his arousal is pushing down into my belly. Every time he rocks it into me, my inner muscles clamp down. It’s not long before I’m clawing at his shirt, clumsily trying to get it off, get my hands on his bare skin again. He’s making soft, hungry sounds as he kisses me—like he’s so into it he can’t control his throat.

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