Everything But by Jade C. Jamison

Author:Jade C. Jamison [Jamison, Jade C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B009BQMZVQ
Published: 2012-09-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-two

ERIN WOKE UP in Riley’s arms. He felt warm and comforting, something she hadn’t felt in years. He felt strong and secure. She stretched her neck and turned a little. “Guess it was my turn to nap, huh? What time is it?”

“Not sure…maybe eleven?”

She smiled. She didn’t want the night to end. She didn’t want to go back to her everyday life and have to be one day closer to the day Riley left town. “You still wanna take that bubble bath?”

He grinned back at her. “I am all about cleanliness.” He moved a piece of hair off her forehead with a finger. “But you probably need to go to bed, don’t you?”

She didn’t want to tell him about her reluctance for the evening to end. She definitely didn’t want to tell him she was enjoying him more than she ever would have thought she would. And there was no way in hell she would tell him she was starting to fall…because she was trying to deny it even to herself. So she said, “Probably…but I want to anyway.” She stood up and held out a hand. “C’mon.” She was completely nude and might have felt strange ordinarily, but he wasn’t leering at her, was only looking in her eyes, so it didn’t bother her.

There was some weird dreamy look in his eyes. He looked so…peaceful and content. She almost hated to urge him to move. His jeans and underwear were still on, just halfway down his legs, but she admired his upper body. He was a walking work of art, a canvas for some industrious tattooing gunslinger, and even though she couldn’t make out most of the individual pictures on his arms, she appreciated the effect. He had a couple on his chest/ abdominal area, but because he didn’t have as many there, his dog tags stood out against the unpainted background. Well, that and the definition of his muscles.

God, she had to stop admiring him or she’d get horny all over again.

He took her hand and sat up. He wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her on the belly. Yeah…he shouldn’t do that. Another round of sex would make her worthless at school tomorrow. But he looked up at her, resting his chin close to her sternum. “How about you go draw the bath and I’ll bring the drinks.”

“Drinks?”

He grinned. “Remember the celebration soda?” She nodded. “Do you even like cream soda?”

“I like it okay.”

“It all right if I go through your cabinets to find glasses and stuff?”

“Yeah.”

He stood and kissed her, then walked off to the kitchen while she went in the bathroom. She drew a warm bath, pouring in the bubbles, grabbing two of her fluffiest towels and setting them on the counter, but she wasn’t consciously thinking about what she was doing. Her mind was focused on Riley and the fact that she was genuinely starting to care about him. This wasn’t supposed to happen, and she doubted he felt the same way, so she was just setting herself up for heartache.

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