Uncontrollable by Shannon Richard

Author:Shannon Richard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2016-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

The lasagna didn’t burn.

By the time they’d finished their first round in bed, the lasagna had finished its first round in the oven. Tripp removed the aluminum foil and it went back in for another fifteen minutes, until the cheese was bubbling and golden brown.

While the main course finished its progression to perfection, Tripp and Beth finished getting dinner ready. He’d told her to sit down but she didn’t listen. She never listened.

Instead she threw her hair up into a messy bun on the top of her head and went about figuring out where everything was in his kitchen. She pulled out plates and silverware to set the table and fetched their wineglasses from outside and refilled them.

There was something about her moving around his home—barefoot and wearing the denim shirt he’d had on earlier—that fascinated him beyond words. Maybe it was because every time she stretched to get something out of one of his cupboards the back of the shirt rode up high on her thighs, giving him just a flash of lacy underwear.

Or maybe it was just her moving around his space with ease.

Or maybe it was just her.

They lingered over dinner, talking and eating, Tripp was constantly distracted by the fork disappearing between Beth’s lips. He’d never been more fascinated by a mouth in his life. It was her smile and her laughter.

Even when their plates were clean they didn’t move away from the table; instead Tripp pulled Beth’s feet up into his lap. When he started massaging them she moaned, another favorite thing of his that she did with her mouth.

Their back and forth questions from earlier continued, usually one for one unless the conversation evolved…which it did a number of times.

They talked about music, favorite bands, the first live concerts they’d ever been to. Hers had been to see Britney Spears; her sister had gotten tickets to the show in Orlando and they’d gone down together. His first concert was the Rolling Stones, and he’d gone with his dad and his best friend Landon.

She told him more about her love for gardening, how she loved being outside with her hands in the dirt.

“Yellow roses were my mom’s favorite flower,” she told him, her words more than a tad wistful. “And they became mine and Colleen’s, too. Every spring they’d bloom like crazy in the backyard.”

“Those weren’t the flowers that Duke destroyed, were they?”

At the sound of his name, Duke perked up from where he was lying a few feet away.

“No.” Beth shook her head. “Duke didn’t touch those.”

“Well, that’s something.” Even though the truth of Grant borrowing the dog was all out in the open now, Tripp would still feel terrible if those had been a casualty.

“Speaking of Duke? Why did you pick that as his name? If I’m remembering correctly, you went to the University of Georgia, so it’s not after Duke University, is it?”

“He’s definitely not named after the school.” Tripp shook his head as his thumb started in on the instep of her right foot.

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