Teach Me (There's Something About Marysburg Book 1) by Olivia Dade

Author:Olivia Dade [Dade, Olivia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hussies & Harpies Press
Published: 2019-05-29T18:30:00+00:00

Twelve

When Martin woke a couple hours later, he stared at Rose as if she’d risen from the sea in an oversized scallop shell, wonder and confusion battling for supremacy in his expression.

“I thought the muscle relaxants were causing hallucinations, but I guess not.” He frowned, eyes still fixed on her. “Unless this is a hallucination too.”

“The nature of reality is suspect,” she agreed. “But as far as I know, we’re both here. I stopped by my house for a few supplies while you were asleep, which is why I look different.”

“Different…” His voice was husky from sleep, his features softened. “Different doesn’t begin to express how you look right now.”

After she’d gathered what she needed for an overnight stay, she’d changed clothing. Instead of her usual tailored pieces, she’d chosen a pair of soft knit gaucho pants and a slouchy silk tee, along with her favorite ballerina flats. Essentially, they were really expensive pajamas and slippers. All black, of course. All clothing she’d never worn outside her home before.

Before she’d left, she’d also taken down her hair and gathered it into a loose braid, as she often did in the evening. A generous application of makeup remover took care of her usual foundation and blush and everything else that announced her readiness to do fashionable battle on a daily basis.

This was as naked as she ever got, except during actual sex. And Martin, drugged but perceptive soul that he was, appeared to realize it.

His face abruptly creased in concern. “Not that you aren’t beautiful every day, because you are. Obviously. That’s not what I meant at all.”

He’d called her beautiful. Just said it outright, as if it were a given. An immutable fact. As if any suggestion she wasn’t beautiful would offend him.

How had all that sweetness survived his childhood intact?

She would have said he had a heart of gold, but it must have been stronger than that. Steel. Diamond, maybe.

“I knew what you meant.” Comfortably propped against his headboard once more, she smiled down at him. “Don’t worry.”

She couldn’t help it. She had to brush that stray eyelash from his cheekbone.

His skin heated beneath her lingering touch, and he caught her hand with his. “I don’t have enough functioning brain cells to worry right now.”

Fire sparked beneath her skin as he gently played with her fingers, exploring the valleys between them and the ridges of her knuckles with light strokes of flesh against flesh.

She struggled to keep her tone even. Wry. “I know you too well, Martin. You will always, always have enough functioning brain cells to worry. It’s one of your many charms.”

He tugged her hand to his mouth, and his lips pressed against her palm. “Thank you.”

“For calling you a worrier?” No oxygen again. She was going to have to evolve into a higher life form soon, one that could survive outside Earth’s atmosphere. “My pleasure.”

His lips were soft. So soft.

He spoke into the cup of her palm. “Thank you for caring about me. Thank you for coming to check on me.

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