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He blinked at me and then lowered his eyes to my noollen lips He palmed my head between his hands and lowered his forehead until it was touchinginto my skin but I would die before I asked him to move away

"I have no doubt you will blow ain and rested one of his forearevery nerve ending My body drifted toward his without s about hiood "But I pros to dream about from here on out, Poppy Once you let me in, I will chase all yourthe colu there "You’ve been doing that since we met, Wheeler"

He made a low noise in his throat and pushed back froany-colored brows lifted and those to-die-for diht tiht around the corner I’ll take good care of you, honey"

I lifted rin "Tiht person sure as hell does You’re ht person"

His chest rose and fell as he let out a long breath "Let’s get out of here"

My feet couldn’t ait I’d ht Now I just had to make sure I could keep up

Wheeler

My hands were shaking so badly that I dropped the stupid little plastic key to the hotel roo the door open It was probably a touch over-the-top to drop everything in theher off to the closest hotel, but as soon as those sexy words left her pretty, pink lips it was all I could do to keepher off toon the words since the moment she let ht have see me to have at her with her body and her hands, but I needed to hear that she was ready I needed her to take that step I needed her pero and I knew that if ere going to beto need permission to fuck her I needed her to be absolutely sure, and now that she was, I wanted to le reason to doubt that I was indeed the right guy, regardless of the time or the place I wanted her to have an experience that would always be a memory that made her smile, that made her happy no matter what happened between the two of us in the future I wanted her to know she orth dropping everything for and that she was absolutely the kind of girl that deserved so special like a fancy hotel rooether She deserved a bed that didn’t hold htmares couldn’t find her here and there were definitely no re the sleek decorations and the dra and headboard

This was me and her, there was no space for anyone else

The dust had cleared and Poppy and I were left standing facing each other, the drea in tatters at our feet It was tiether new dreams, ones that had pieces of her and pieces ofcould rip theain and this tiave rin as she tossed it on the dresser next to the TV re like a nervous kid on proht She seemed perfectly at ease as she let her purse fall from her shoulder so she could set it down She turned to look at me with a perfectly arched cara around that enticingly barehoney-colored hair away from her face as she looked at the bed and then over to me

"I’m all dirty" I blurted out the words so fast that they rease-stained hat still on my head to the worn toes of my work boots She took the few steps required to close the space between us and lifted a hand so that she could run her fingers over my nose When she pulled theed when I realized I’d hauled her out the garage without bothering to clean up I looked like I’d been crawling around under a car, which I had been

"It was covering up your freckles" She rubbed her fingers together and looked over my shoulder at the open doorway to the bathroom "I think we should clean you up"

I sed hard and followed her gaze "If you go in there with et started" She was the first woman I had ever waited on, and while I kneithout question she orth the tions, my body was pri patience If she got naked and wet anywhere close to ame over

She snatched the hat off my head and threw it so that it landed on top of her purse I lowered ers into my sweaty and flattened hair I let out a quietthe sides ofinto the tense muscles at the base of ood when she said it all breathless and needy "You have been really great aboutthis all about me, and I needed that then, but now I need you and I need this to be about us" She lifted her eyebrows up and her cheeks turned a char shade of pink that made me want to see if she blushed like that everywhere else on her body

It wasn’t like I really wanted to put up et clean so we could get all kinds of dirty together, I would be a fool to try and talk her out of it

I claspedthe way she was holding on to me I bent my head so I could touch et wet"

She sue darted out and touched the center ofa daue Her eyes glimmered with promises and heat that made me feel like I’d had too many drinks too fast She went to my head quick and made my body feel like it was out of my control