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I tiptoed out of bed and walked to the bathroolorious ways The way he touched me, sucked me, and kissed me was seared into my skin I could almost still feel his breath on my body

I brushed my teeth, pulled on a fluffy hotel robe, and walked back to the bed to pour coffee into a china

Things were only going to get more complicated froame next week That meant more aard run-ins with Gloria and Bud Wes knew about Ben now, and he had to catch on to my insecurities about other women We hadn’t even touched how deeply that ran

I hadn’t decided if the DC trip was a coht that he was here forto defend me To make sacrifices To protect ood Not to ot back fro off Ben

He was tender and sweet It was an entirely different type of sexiness Itthe L word But instead, I moaned and shook in his arms and let him come deep inside ed only to him I smiled I liked the emotionally intense sex as much as the primal raw stuff we did back in San Antonio

I nibbled on the end of a croissant and popped a strawberry in my mouth I didn’t kno all of this had happened How I had ended up as Wes’s girlfriend Eating rooame But it had And I was completely, blissfully happy about it

“Oh no, oh no” Gloria clutched h in the Sharks’ stadiuround

It was the third quarter and ere down by a touchdown

“Please let him be okay” She squeezed her eyes shut

“Get up, son,” Bud muttered behind us

I’d never felt my heart beat this loudly or violently One of the line I finally let ain

“Oh, he’s okay He’s okay” Gloria still hadn’t let go of the death grip she had on my hand

I nodded at her, not feeling completely reassured “It looks like he’s fine”

Froet to hiround, my mind listed off twenty possible medical outcomes for a hit like that The first one was a concussion But I looked on the ju staff see to examine him

They snapped the ball, and Wes took a few steps back before slinging the ball into the end zone Touchdown Wranglers! I ju God, how did he do that? He took a hit that would have knockedon the bench, he brought the teaame was tied