True Devotion by Liora Blake

Author:Liora Blake [Blake, Liora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781476786315
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

12

When his hand touches my cheek, I feel it through the last bits of sleep, through every other thing that would have normally kept me snoring and drooling on the pillow. Instead, the heat of his callused fingertips over my skin pulls my eyes open, just as he presses a few tendrils of my sleep-and-sex-messed hair behind my ear.

“I have to go. I didn’t want to wake you, but I couldn’t help it.”

He sits on the edge of the bed, dressed, but with a mess of still-damp hair from his shower. He smells of everything I’ve decided to really, really like. Soap, spice, coffee, and Simon. When he leans down to put his lips to mine, I can taste the dash of cream and heaps of sugar he adds to his coffee. Or maybe he ate some of that terrible cereal he likes so much. It could be the forty-seven tablespoons of sugar per serving in there I’m tasting. His tongue sweeps into my mouth and teases mine until he finally pulls back, reluctance covering his expression.

“You looked so beautiful, I needed to touch you. I wanted you to kiss me back before I walked out the door.”

Stretching my arms over my head, I writhe around a little and then move to sit up. “Just give me a few minutes to get dressed. I can be out of here before you go.”

Simon gently urges my shoulders down into the mattress again.

“No, no. I set the alarm for seven thirty for you. Just go back to sleep. That gives you plenty of time to get McKenna to school.”

“I don’t need to be in your house while you’re gone. Five minutes, that’s all I need.”

He leans over me on the mattress, resting his weight against his outstretched arms.

“Sunshine. Don’t be weird. I don’t care if you’re here unsupervised. You can snoop through my shit all you want. I’ll warn you, there will be a decent amount of porn. Possibly an autographed picture of me manhandling some chick dressed like Princess Leia. You might also stumble across my supersecret stash of very filthy romance novels. I have a soft spot for the ones with shirtless cowboys. But other than that, it’s all pretty square around here.”

“Please tell me you’re kidding about the shirtless cowboys.”

Raising his eyebrows suggestively, he lowers his voice. “I don’t know. You’ll have to find out. Those cowboys are so rugged. Everyone has a kink, don’t they? Mine might be a cowboy in just his hat and a smile.”

“If you ever ask me to say ‘giddy up’ when we’re having sex, I’ll know it’s true.”

My leg escaped the covers during the night and it lies exposed, along the side of the mattress, just next to where he sits. He smiles, distracted but contented, as his hand moves to the bare skin. My knee first, and then up over my thigh, so slowly, until his fingers rest against my naked hipbone. The tips of his fingers tickle just under the shirt of his I slept in.

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