Total pages in book: 89
Estimated words: 84102 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 421(@200wpm)___ 336(@250wpm)___ 280(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 84102 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 421(@200wpm)___ 336(@250wpm)___ 280(@300wpm)
“What are you talking about?”
He grinned, shifting easily from the hard-voiced top to the adorable, sexy, cuddly man she’d known he would be. “You said throw down…but we had sex standing up. Doesn’t count.”
“Semantics? Really?”
“And I…well, I barely even got to start my study.” He slid a finger down her bare side, and it lit up every nerve ending in her body. “I’m not ready to give up on my study of Tessa.”
She started to move, letting his cock slide in and out again.
She wasn’t ready to give up on him yet.
She might never be.
Chapter Seven
David felt Tessa move in his arms, the soft morning light from the windows giving the whole bedroom a dewy glow.
Her hair had gone everywhere. He was caught in it, the long tresses laid out over his chest and arms.
She was way cuddlier than he would have imagined. She sighed and rubbed her cheek against his chest, her legs moving against his.
He’d had her three times the night before, and his dick should still be sleeping, but nope. His dick—which so often took a backseat to his brain—was standing at attention and demanding to take the lead this morning.
His dick had taken over, and he hadn’t even worked through half his list. He’d meant to make a long, slow study of her nipples, to test how sensitive they were and what kind of play they responded to.
His dick just wanted to fuck her again.
“Did we sleep in?” Her eyes came open, and she yawned against the back of her hand.
“It’s not too late.” He didn’t want her to think he was eager to be anywhere but here. In between bouts of sex, they’d talked. The conversation had been an easy flow of their own personal histories. He was sure she would have told him she was only talking, but he’d been soaking her in, learning about her life. Becoming closer and closer to her.
She blinked and looked up at him, and he saw the moment Doubting Tessa showed up. He’d decided there were two Tessas—the one who teased him and kept getting closer and closer, and the one who remembered what it felt like to cancel a wedding for four hundred of North Texas’s elite.
The key was to get Doubting Tessa to stop thinking. When she went on instinct they were good.
He kissed her, meshing their mouths together in a luxurious embrace. She immediately went soft in his arms, and their legs tangled together.
When he started to move down her body, she rolled over and let him.
“You’re going to kiss me every time I start to get weird about this, aren’t you?”
She was a smart girl. He kissed his way down her neck. “What’s weird about it? This feels perfectly natural to me.”
She sighed. “I work with your brother.”
“And it would be weird if he was here with us, but he’s not. And he won’t make fun of you or act like an idiot if he finds out we’ve slept together. He’ll just try to get you to feed him if he finds you at my place. Don’t give in. He’s an adult, and he knows how to make ramen. If he whines too much, put in earbuds. He’ll get the message.” He kissed his way over her skin, pausing above her nipple. “But that won’t be a problem because we’re not going to have a relationship after next Sunday. So relax and enjoy the time we do have.”
“You don’t believe me.” She said the words on a sigh. “You don’t think I’ll walk away.”
He had a few days to make her change her mind. After all, she’d said they would “throw down” once and then be done, and she was still in his bed. “I can’t make you stay with me. All I can do is enjoy the time I have with you. Sometimes in my line of business you only get so long with a subject. Like the time I got to study a seventeenth century priest’s account of his mission. They would only let me study it in a clean room, and only for two hours at a time.”
Her body started to move restlessly, as though she knew exactly where he was going. “You’re killing me, Professor.”
That was not his intention. He kissed across her belly and started down toward her pussy. His cock had spent a whole lot of time inside this gorgeous part of her, but he hadn’t had a chance to taste her yet. “Tell me why you think my brother can’t handle working with someone I’m involved with.”
This was one subject she hadn’t mentioned the night before. He needed to ease her into talking about her broken engagement. He believed her when she said she wasn’t hung up on the man himself, but it was obvious to him that the relationship and its breakup still affected her.