Total pages in book: 84
Estimated words: 79968 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 400(@200wpm)___ 320(@250wpm)___ 267(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 79968 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 400(@200wpm)___ 320(@250wpm)___ 267(@300wpm)
“Need you,” he whispered. “I’m going to come, Shawn.”
I hummed back at him, letting him know I was ready. He reached down to lace his fingers through my hair as he looked me right in the eyes, like he wanted to watch me as he came all over my tongue. A few moments later he was cursing under his breath and I took him as deep as I could as he came, finally letting go.
I held him there as he breathed in deep, floating back down to reality as I swallowed around his cock, taking everything he’d given me.
“Damn,” he said as I lifted off of his cock. “If I didn’t have that meeting in fifteen minutes, I would be repaying you for that right this moment. And probably begging to suck your dick every hour, on the hour, all day.”
“Plenty of time to make me come later,” I said, helping him pull his pants back up. “I’m going to enjoy the coffee and doughnuts. You’re already winning at step one of dating, by the way. Providing people with things that they like.”
“Sugar and caffeine?”
“And cum, of course,” I said, licking my lips.
I’d never seen a smile like the wide, genuine one that passed over Rush’s face now. “Come here,” he said. He drew me in close on the couch and kissed me, this time sweetly and slowly instead of the desperation he’d had earlier.
“Get out of here. I’ve got cabinets to tear down.”
“All day at work today I’m going to feel a combination of embarrassed and turned on every time I think about this morning,” he said as he stood up. “I’m really sorry for acting weird the last few days. It’s all just very new to me. And I feel like I’m going to colossally fuck it all up.”
“All is forgiven,” I said. “And you’ll be fine.”
As Rush ran to grab his keys and one of the cold brews before heading out the door, I couldn’t keep a big, dumb smile off of my face. He was about to open the front door, but then he turned around, beelined back toward me, and planted another kiss on my lips.
“I think I’m the luckiest man alive, on Earth, of all time,” I said.
“You won’t be saying that when you see how bad at this I am,” Rush said.
“Oh, shove it. Show me your worst. I’m ready for it.”
16
RUSH
I walked back over to the shiny brewing tanks after finishing the interview with Emma, holding out a hand to high-five Harlan.
“I think that went about as well as it possibly could have,” I said.
Jax walked over from the bar, looking like he’d just walked out of a college brochure in his fraternity sweatshirt. “She seemed nice,” Jax said.
Harlan was his usual quiet, grizzly bear self, stroking a hand through his facial hair as he looked thoughtfully into the distance.
“What did you think, Harlan? Your opinion means a lot to me, since you’ve been here longer than all of us.”
“Calling me old?” he asked with a glint in his eye.
“Calling you wise,” I corrected. Harlan didn’t look a day over forty-five, and he was built like he worked out, even though I couldn’t picture him working out in any gym.
He hummed, shifting to lean against one of the rails surrounding the tank. “I don’t tend to like these hot-shot people straight out of college who think they know their way around a tank,” he said. “No offense, Jax.”
Jax waved an arm through the air. “I know I’m just a dumb frat boy.”
“You're okay, kid,” Harlan said. “Certainly not dumb. Emma, though…”
I braced myself internally. Harlan had been perfectly polite as he showed Emma around our tanks, but I knew he’d been working here for my dad for years and years. Harlan didn’t seem to like change, and now that I’d been here for a while, he was only slightly warming up to me.
“She seemed seriously knowledgeable,” I offered.
After a pause, Harlan finally cut the silence. “I think hiring her would be the best thing that’s happened to this place in years,” he said. “No offense to you, Rush.”
Bingo.
Hell yes. If even our curmudgeon brewer loved Emma, I knew she was right for the job.
“None taken,” I said, giving Harlan a squeeze on the shoulder. “It’s a done deal, then. I’ll offer her the position tomorrow.”
My body was fizzling with excitement. I’d been a ball of nervousness all morning, my brain circling back to the morning with Shawn, over and over again. For the first time in my life, I felt like I was in uncharted territory, and I couldn’t help but think that I may have made a huge mistake.
A mistake that really, really turned me on, but still.
Shawn was taking a chance on me. A huge one, that I definitely didn’t deserve yet. I had no clue if I actually wanted to date someone—to have something real, and all of the expectations that came with that. But I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that I wanted him. Him, and nobody else.