Total pages in book: 65
Estimated words: 63761 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 319(@200wpm)___ 255(@250wpm)___ 213(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 63761 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 319(@200wpm)___ 255(@250wpm)___ 213(@300wpm)
A slight smile begins to pull at my mouth.
“Kingsley,” hearing him say my name makes my heart expand and tingles spread over my body, “seeing you just lie there, with no heartbeat?” He lowers his head and buries his face in my neck. “That was one hell of a wake-up call,” he whispers, his breath fanning over my skin.
I lift my arms and wrap them around him, hugging him tightly.
“That’s when I realized I needed to see your smile again. I needed to hear you sassing me.”
He lifts his head, and for a moment, his eyes just drift over my face. “I needed to see your beautiful face again.”
A grin widens the slight smile on my face. “You think I’m beautiful?”
“In a very different way than anyone else.” He brings a hand to my face and brushes his fingers along the side of my eye and down to my jaw. “There was a moment I thought you were going to die, and it felt like someone ripped the sun right from the sky. Your beauty is bright. It’s cheerful and warm, and that’s why I struggled to get along with you in the beginning.”
I hesitate, not wanting to upset him, but he notices it, and smiling, he says, “Spit it out. I can see you want to say something.”
“I overheard you telling Lake that I reminded you of your sister.” I pull a face. “Yeah, saying it out loud…” I cringe a little.
To my surprise, he lets out a chuckle. “Babe, you look nothing like Jennifer. She had blonde hair, so I’m more likely to see a resemblance between her and Layla.”
I let out a breath of relief. “Thank God.”
“She was full of life. She always saw the positive side of everything. Like you, she thought everything was unicorns farting glitter and butterflies shitting all over the flowers.”
I crack up, and after a couple of seconds, I tap at his back. “Off… can’t… breathe.”
When he rolls off me, and he just watches me laugh with a smile on his face, my laughter fades because there’s really not a more attractive man out there.
I sit up and moving onto my knees, I frame his face with my hands. “Do you have any idea how hot you are?”
The sexy smirk pulls at his lips.
Nodding, I grin, “Especially when you smirk like that.”
There’s a playful glint in his eyes as he bites his bottom lip.
I let out a dreamy sigh, “Now I’m just going to have to jump your bones.”
He moves onto his back and pulls me closer, so I’m straddling him. “Yeah?”
I nod as I lean down and press a kiss to his jaw.
“There’s one specific bone I’d like for you to focus on,” he teases.
“Mmmh…” I brush my mouth down to his neck and letting my tongue dart out, I swirl it in a circle over his pulse.
“That’s it. Get naked right now,” he growls as he grabs hold of my hips and moves me off of him.
When he reaches for my shorts, I say, “I’ve got this. Get rid of your own clothes.”
Grabbing hold of the hem of my sweater, I pull it over my head.
Mason gets off the bed and my hands still behind my back where I’m unclasping my bra.
Watching him drag his sweater and t-shirt off brings a huge smile to my face. I didn’t get a good look at him the last time we had sex, so I’m not missing out on this opportunity to stare.
Ripped. Golden skin. Freaking paradise.
His movements slow down as he reaches for his pants. I tilt my head and my tongue darts out, wetting my lips when he moves even slower as he pulls the zipper down.
Happy trail. V line. Hot damn.
My eyes are still glued to the hard lines on his lower abdomen when he steps out of his pants, shoes, and socks.
Darting forward, he shoves me onto my back. “I can see you’re a little preoccupied so I’ll just undress you,” he teases as he pushes a hand under my back and unclasps my bra. He pulls it off me and throws it to the side.
He yanks my boots off before moving to my shorts. Undoing the button on my shorts, he says, “I was serious. These are going to the trash.”
“Which means you’ll never see me in them again.” I wag my eyebrows when he stops to actually think about it.
“Fine, you can wear them but only for me to see.”
I grin because his possessiveness makes me feel special.
He pulls my shorts off and tossing the fabric over his shoulder, his eyes freeze on me. “You were serious?”
I forgot about the not wearing underwear comment earlier.
He tilts his head and snaps his eyes up to mine. “I think I totally underestimated you.”
I nod. “That’s for sure.”
Placing his hands on my hips, his touch moves upward until he cups my breasts.