Royal by Tina Martin

Author:Tina Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: black love, womens fiction, african american romance, alpha male romance, shy heroine, strong male hero
Publisher: Tina Martin

Chapter 16

After dinner, Gemma retreated to her quarters to shower and prepare for bed. Royal went to get his overnight bag and suit out of the car because even though he was spending the night and taking her to the doctor, he’d still planned on going to the office afterward.

Bummer, she thought. She could get used to having him all to herself. That got her to thinking well into the future – what if this thing with Royal went beyond boyfriend and girlfriend? What if friends became lovers and lovers, in turn, became husband and wife? Husband and wife? She grinned to herself. No way. Royal never talked about marriage in any context. Is marriage something he looked forward to, or did he have objections to it? Did men his age think about marriage? Most men didn’t regardless of their age, so why would he?

“Gosh, we really need to talk,” she mumbled to herself as she shut off the shower. “Or am I being all Gianna-ish? Should I just go with the flow and be quiet about this? See where this thing takes us?”

After she dried off, she slid into a pajama set – a sherbet orange tank top and short shorts. He’d seen her in it before, but something about exposing the length of her legs to him now made a shiver run up her spine, probably because he would try to grab them the first chance he got with his affectionate self.

“Hey,” he said as soon as he saw her emerge from the bathroom.

“Hey,” she responded, instantly feeling goosebumps flutter over her whole body. She tried to dismiss the feeling by casually walking over to the nightstand to grab the bottle of lotion that she left there. She picked it up, flicked the lid to open it and at the same time, she glanced up at him, watching him pull his shirt up over his head. The nerves in her hand jolted, and the bottle slipped from her grasp. When it hit the floor, lotion splattered everywhere. “Oh, shoot.”

“What’s wrong?”

She bent over to pick up the bottle and he came walking around the bed to see what she was doing. “I dropped it.”

“You dropped it? Just like that?”

“Yeah. It just slipped out of my hand.”

Royal walked to the bathroom to grab some paper towels, and when he came back, he kneeled to wipe up the spill while saying, “I’ve never known you to have butterfingers. You must’ve been distracted…checking me out again, huh?”

She giggled. “I was.” She sat on the bed’s edge.

“You should’ve just told me you wanted some lotion on that sweet body of yours. I can handle it.”

“No, I got it.”

“I got it all over my hands now…may as well put it to good use,” he said, crawling closer to the bed while on his knees.

“Royal…stop it.”

He gripped her calf muscles and said, “Shh…lay back. I got this.” His eyes swept over her body. “All of this.”

“Royal…”

“What’s wrong? You don’t want me to touch you?” he asked, while purposely massaging already.

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