Total pages in book: 110
Estimated words: 111359 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 557(@200wpm)___ 445(@250wpm)___ 371(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 111359 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 557(@200wpm)___ 445(@250wpm)___ 371(@300wpm)
She moved toward him without thinking, and he gathered her onto his lap.
“Did I interrupt you?” she asked.
“No, precious girl. You could never be an interruption.”
She sighed happily, settling into him.
“I’m sorry.”
“What for?” she asked in surprise.
“I should have stayed with you. I thought you were so tired that you’d just drop off. You should have called out for me.”
“You can’t drop everything you have going on for me.” She looked up at him.
“Baby, clue in,” he said gruffly. “That’s exactly what I can do. What I will do.”
Darn it.
“Don’t make me cry.”
“How does that make you cry?” he asked.
“Happy tears.”
“No happy tears,” he ordered. “No sad tears either.”
She rolled her eyes.
“Sassy.”
“Is that going on my tally?” she asked.
He rubbed the back of his neck with his hand. “No, I thought we’d forget about the tally.”
“Oh.” Disappointment filled her. It had been a long time since she’d been spanked. Maybe . . . maybe she missed it.
Was she considering that she might want to play again?
She wasn’t sure. But the disappointment she’d just felt when Raid said he wanted to get rid of the tally and how he’d backed off with his bossy protectiveness, made her think that she might miss it.
“I was going to get my phone. I need to call Doc and let him know I won’t be coming in to work for a while. Are you sure I won’t be all right at the clinic?”
“I’m sure, and I’ve already called him.”
“What? Raid, you shouldn’t have done that!”
“Why not?”
She huffed and tried to get off his lap. “Because that’s my job and should have done it! Now, let me up.”
“Nope.”
“Raid!”
“I want you to stay here until you’re not mad anymore.”
“Well, that could take a while.” When she turned to glare at him, he was grinning.
“What?”
“You never argue, huh? You always keep the peace?”
Shoot. She bit her lip.
“Don’t do that,” he soothed, pulling her lip free. “Do I look like I’m upset about any of that?”
Nope. He looked amused.
“You just bring it out of me,” she grumbled. “I’m not like this with anyone else.”
“Good. I like that.”
Yeah. She did too.
“Why don’t we go lie on the bed and watch a movie?” he suggested.
“Have you got popcorn?”
“Pretty sure it’s illegal to watch a movie without eating popcorn, so yeah.” He stood and set her down.
“Oh, but I do want my phone,” she said. “I think it’s still in the truck.”
“I’ll get it. You grab the popcorn and put it in the microwave.”
She got to work and then poured the popcorn into a big bowl before grabbing them some sodas.
Raid returned with her handbag, and she searched through for her phone as he carried the stuff into the bedroom.
Her eyes widened as she saw several texts from her friends, Jenna. Heck, even from Aspen and Saxon.
“Yikes.”
“What’s wrong?” Raid asked, looking up at her as she walked into the bedroom. He was already sitting on the bed with the remote in his hand.
“Everyone is messaging me, wondering what’s going on, why I’ve moved in with you. How do they all know?”
“I told them.”
“What?” she asked, sitting down.
“I called Doc and told him. Said he could tell Jenna. Then I figured you’d want your friends to know. So I texted Brye.”
“Brye?”
“I didn’t have Mel’s number.”
“Raid! Did you think I might have wanted to tell them myself?”
“You were napping. Or I thought you were.”
“But . . . but . . .”
“Baby, it’s done now. You don’t have to worry about it.”
She didn’t? “They’re all worried about how sudden this is.”
“Tell them to mind their own business.”
“You know that’s not how things work.”
He grinned. “Tell them I’m a Malone. When we want something, we go after it and we don’t mess around.”
She thought about that for a moment, then shrugged. “That actually works for me.” She sent a group text.
“Good. Now, come here.”
She snuggled in against Raid’s chest. The movie was filled with gunfire and car races, mingled with some hot sex scenes. She found herself shifting around restlessly at one point.
When it ended, Raid turned to her. “You feel like going to sleep yet?”
“No.”
His eyes twinkled. “Do you feel like having me eat you out to get your mind to slow enough so you can sleep?”
Holy heck.
Did he really just make that offer?
“I . . . that could help.”
“Yeah? You think that would help?”
She nodded.
“Are you going to sit on my face?”
Eek. Seriously?
“I can’t do that.”
He nodded. “We have to work our way up to that. Got it.”
No, no, no. There was no working their way up to that. Right?
“I like anal,” she blurted out.
Holy. Crap.
Her eyes went wide.
His eyes went wide.
She moved away from him. “I cannot believe I just said that. What is wrong with me? I won’t sit on your face so you can eat me out, but hey, feel free to stick your dick in my ass.”