Total pages in book: 65
Estimated words: 64910 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 325(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 216(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 64910 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 325(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 216(@300wpm)
Then again, I wasn’t either. I just liked to tease him about it.
His eyes flickered to something over my shoulder, and I saw his eyes narrow.
“What?” I asked, looking behind me.
My belly bumped the table, and he leaned forward and caught his beer before it could spill a drop.
“Sorry,” I patted my belly.
He glanced at me, watched me move my hand against my belly, and then winked.
“What did you see?” I asked as I once again looked behind me.
“Thought I saw someone staring at you. But when I glanced to get a better look, they were gone.” He shrugged. “You were smiling. I’m sure it was just that mega-watt grin stalling them for a second.”
I rolled my eyes.
This man and his compliments lately.
He may be feeding me a load of bullshit, but it was getting to the point where I was starting to really feel the compliments in my soul.
“That’s sweet.” I snickered. “But I think that you’re blind or something. My smile is pretty dull.”
He shook his head. “Maybe before I got my head out of my ass, yeah. But now? You smile all the time, and it always has the power to stop me in my tracks.”
He was really good at making me feel like I mattered.
Which I was sure were what his intentions were. Anything to get me to stay.
“That may be the way with you.” I scrunched up my nose. “But I’m sure that normal people don’t feel that way.”
He snorted, as if he wasn’t believing my line of bullshit either.
I knew I was a pretty girl. I was petite, had long hair, and a cute face. But I wasn’t movie star beautiful or anything.
“You don’t see yourself the way I do. The way a man does,” he pointed out. “You have all that hair and ass. You have a cute little frame that we can wrap up easily. You’re literally the perfect fit for right here.” He patted his lap. “You’re beautiful, you have a gorgeous smile. And you’re pregnant, which is giving you this glow. Which is really fuckin’ real. A glow. But you have it, and it’s obvious. Plus, from the back, you don’t look pregnant. Your ass is all round and…” He gestured with his hands to amplify my assets.
“Whatever.” I smiled. “But I did see some man staring at me in the grocery store yesterday. He was standing next to his wife, though. So I wasn’t worried. Well, I was worried for him and what his wife was going to do to him when they got home. But I figured he was only looking because of the amount of groceries in my cart. Not because of my assets.”
He gave me an unrepentant grin. “You ready?”
I was.
Getting up, I stretched my arms up high over my head, and he used that moment to move in close and put his arm around my back, pulling me into his body.
I went ahead and crossed my arms behind his neck while I was at it, staring up at him with hearts in my eyes.
“You’re pretty hot yourself,” I blurted.
Bram was hot and he knew it. Everyone always commented that he was the ‘hottest’ Crow brother.
I thought it was due to his brooding personality and his refusal to talk to anybody. The ‘broken’ aura he had about him was always enticing.
His eyes heated more, and he dropped a kiss onto my nose before saying, “I think you’re biased. I’m pretty normal, babe. Beards instantly make any man more attractive.”
He had a point, but before he’d had a beard, I’d been attracted to his angular jaw.
His beard wasn’t long by any means. He had to have his beard short and well-groomed due to the respirator he had to wear while he was underwater welding, but when it was the weekend, and he would be off for several days, he usually allowed it to get a little more unruly.
It was just enough that I could tug it if I curled my fingers just…
“Ow!” He laughed as he pulled his face away from where I’d been tugging it teasingly. “That hurt!”
“Chocolate,” I said. “From the small bite that you were able to steal.”
He snorted and brushed his beard as if searching for any stray crumbs. “You ready?”
I nodded, and instead of grabbing my hand like he usually did, he jerked his chin toward the door.
I proceeded to walk in front of him and felt his heat at my back.
When he got to the door, though, he moved in front of me and exited first, his eyes already scanning the surroundings.
I caught the door with my butt and already started scanning too, not able to see much but from the sides.
There were people everywhere.
As in, they were milling about on the railings, along the planters. On the dock by the bay. On boats.