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He flipped the phone closed and tossed it on one of the nightstands next to the bed Neither one of us reacted when it started to ring again This tinored it, and threw himself back on the bed and covered his eyes with his arm

"Do you want to tellwhat the ansould be as he shook his head in the negative

"No" He lifted his arm and turned his head so he could look at me "That’s not true I do want to tell you what it was about but I can’t until after this weekend The reason Kallie and I didn’t work out is more complicated than the fact that she was unfaithful, but I can’t lay all her business out there until she co to tellhonest with the people that love her"

I cocked my head to the side and considered him for a silentme?" I hated that a sliver of doubt worked its way underneath the confidence I’d slowly been building since I decided he needed a dog If his ex, the mother of his child, didn’t want s very difficult for us

He barked out a bitter-sounding laugh "Oh, she doesn’tyou now She’s upset because she knows I’ve been looking at you for a long tis are hurt, which tends to make her act like a two-year-old"

I blinked at hi attime?"

Suddenly he rolled over so that he could crawl up the mattress and settle himself next to me He wrapped an arm around my shoulders and pulled me to his side His lips touched my temple and then brushed across ht she showed up at Dixie’s right after I left her, and she saw you, or rather saw the way I looked at you She figured out pretty quickly that she was no longer the woman that had my attention I told you, honey, I saw you and I couldn’t stop looking"

I gulped and reached out to put a hand over his heart "I hate confrontation She was so angry and upset I couldn’t get out of that aparters on his tattooed skin in ti underat you"

His arhtened aroundat me?" His words made me shiver as I tilted aze

"I was looking at you the way I used to look at men before I was scared of theerous they could be I was looking at you like I found so to want to take you back She was very, very foolish to throhat she had away I was looking at you like I would never let you go if you were mine" I let out a yelp as he pulled me, blankets and all, over the top of him His arm locked around my waist and his cheek settled on the top of my head as he held o

"I’llatback at you the exact same way and that’s what has Kallie all riled up I watched her with blinders of youth and infatuation on I had huge blind spots where she was concerned and we both know it When I stare at you,that led down into his e when our eyes are on each other and not on the path we’re taking"

He chuckled against my hair and wrapped his other arm around my shoulders so that I was effectively trapped in his hold I waited for alarm to wake my sleepy senses up and for panic to make my body stiff but neither showed up I wondered if it was possible to fuck the fear away because it was nowhere to be found as he yawned and told me confidently, "Doesn’tas we’re walking it together If I stumble you can be there to help me up, and you know I’ll do my best to never let you fall"

He had a point I’d been struggling tothat the idea of having someone there to offer me a boost, to pull me up when it felt like I couldn’t take another step, was so overwhel that if I hadn’t been exhausted I probably would have burst into tears again Wheeler could pull me up and I would help hi for hi a new father Everyone always said you should never hike alone and the wisdom in those words was very apparent

I oken up the nextthe back of my neck It felt like I had only closedto complain when one of those hands trailed across my tummy and his knee made room betweeninto the spot on the curve of ht before and we both let out a strangled groan as he entered , slow press that stretched overly sensitized ettable way Everything felt amped up, hotter, harder, and more intense It was a sensation overload and felt like I was drowning in pleasure and satisfaction

It wasn’t until I ca down on his as I writhed and wiggled in front of hiood was because there was nothing between us He pulled out ofto keep me exactly where he was, and rolled on his back, his hand wrapped around his slick and glossy erection His face had an almost pained expression stato finish without me and that was simply unacceptable That erection was asm and I fully intended to take it

I twisted so that I was lying horizontally across the bed and reached out to replace his fist with ers found my hair as I brushed my nose across those stark black tattoos that marked his lower abdoue into the shallow indent of his belly button

"Poppy … I’ othard flesh that was pulsing excitedly inout for ainst what he really wanted from me