Slow Burn: a Small-Town, Single Father Romance (Redemption Book 7) by Jessica Prince

Author:Jessica Prince [Prince, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessica Prince Books LLC
Published: 2023-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Nineteen

DEVA

Something had shifted between Laeth and me over the past several days. Something I didn’t altogether understand.

He’d gone from avoiding me at every turn my whole first week, to being everywhere this past one.

That first week he’d been gone before Cash and I woke up, and worked until after dark, missing dinner.

This week he’d been at the table for both meals every single day. He went from grunting and grumbling to speaking in a normal tone, initiating conversations like he hadn’t spent the first half of our time together communicating through glares and scowls.

Cash and I had lunches while Laeth was a work, but breakfasts and dinners were eaten at the dining table that separated the kitchen and living room, the three of us eating while indulging in casual small talk or in companionable silence. There was nothing awkward about it, which only made things that much more difficult.

Because, while I’d felt an irresistible tug to Laeth while he behaved like a caveman, it was so much worse now that we were spending time together.

I should have been embarrassed after sharing some of the darker times in my past, and maybe I would have had Laeth shown that he pitied me even a little. But he didn’t. He hadn’t treated me like I was made of glass or like he needed to handle me with kid gloves. I was still Deva. I was still capable in his eyes. So the embarrassment never came.

I lost count of the number of times I’d been transfixed watching his pronounced Adam’s apple bob up and down as he talked or swallowed. And I couldn’t stop staring at those tattoos! It had started as fascination because, of course no one who was a part of the Fellowship was allowed to have tattoos, but it had quickly grown into something else.

I couldn’t say I was a fan of them in general. It was more that I was slightly obsessed with the ones on him.

I’d tried losing myself in my books night after night in an effort to get Laeth out of my head. Unfortunately, that didn’t work. If anything, it made it so much worse.

One night, I’d reached a particularly steamy scene in my romance book. The author had gone into vivid enough detail that I started to fantasize about acting out with Laeth what the characters had done.

That night, I’d dreamed about Laeth coming into my room and stripping me naked while saying the most delectably filthy things as his fingers played between my legs.

In the dream, he’d driven me to countless orgasms, and I’d woken up panting and sweating, my panties drenched and an unrelenting ache in my core.

From that moment, I’d felt like a live wire. I couldn’t stop thinking about that dream and had been walking around with this unquenchable . . . need for days. I felt like I was going insane, and I didn’t know what to do to make it stop.

It was currently Saturday, and I’d tried to make myself scarce by hanging out in my room.

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