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“Heeey, I don’t judge the piss-beers you like. Let me guess, you drink your coffee black?”
Pouring a mug of his own, he nodded. “Damn right. I don’t have a sweet tooth.” He tossed her a teasing glance. “I have a meat tooth.”
“Oooooh, and he rhymes, ladies and gentlemen! So you’re saying if I want to seduce you, I should cook you a steak.”
He snorted. “You don’t even have to do that much. You could just look at me. Apparently I’ll get a boner.” He’d been half-mast all morning, and trying to control it.
She had been taking a sip of coffee and nearly choked on it. She hacked a cough and ground out, “What?” in a raspy voice.
“Or kissing me in a cave, or the way your hair moves in the wind, or when you try to claw out the eyes of a foe, or when you wake up all disheveled and stretch in front of the window and expose the perfect bottom of your ass cheeks, or laying against me sleeping, or really if you breathe around me, I want to take you from behind, fill you up, and then arrogantly grin all day knowing you are walking around others smelling like me.” She was just staring, so he amended, “Since we are being honest and all.”
She cleared her throat and said, “Um, I like steak too.”
He didn’t understand, so he waited for her to elaborate.
“I like to eat steak with people sometimes.”
Oh. Okay. “Do you want to eat steak with me?”
“Like a friend-date?”
He could tell the answer mattered to her. He didn’t want to freak her out or push too fast, but he’d learned yesterday when he’d backed out of the kiss that she was sensitive to rejection, and he didn’t want to hurt her again. It was a very thin tightrope to walk, so he said first, “I’m not good with woman-stuff and feelings.”
“Okay.”
“So if I fuck up and say the wrong things sometimes, I need you to remind yourself that I work a job where I’m alone ninety-five percent of the time, and in a war every other week, and my animal has never been good with beautiful things.”
“Okay,” she whispered on a breath.
“How about we call it a friend-date with the risk of me kissing you at the end of the night?”
“You are fun,” she said softly, her eyes on the ground.
He was getting used to her submissiveness. Sometimes when she dropped her gaze, it made her words hold even more weight. His heart was back to pounding. “So are you.”
“You are a gentleman who sleeps on top of the covers and lets me cry, but you can talk filthy, and then go right back to being a gentleman. I like that. A kiss at the end of the night would be okay with me.”
“I’ll pick a place for friend-date,” he said. “What time do you get off work?”
“I’ll be back here at five, but I have to wash a truck I’ve been working on and take it into town to drop it off, if you want to follow me down. And then I can ride with you back here? Sorry, it’s kind of a busy day.”
“Never apologize for your work ethic. Work ethic is sexy.”
“What are you going to do today?” she asked, curiosity tainting her tone.
He just offered her a grin and a shrug. “I have some ideas.”
Just in case she was a woman who enjoyed surprises, he wasn’t going to ruin what he was about to do for her.
“Okay, well…I need to get going. I have a longer drive to work now.” Her full bottom lip was pouting out just a little. So fuckin’ cute.
He got it. He didn’t want to separate either.
“Want me to give you a ride?” he asked.
Her eyes went wide. “It’s an hour each way.”
“I have some errands around the area. I don’t mind. I’ll swing back and pick you up after work.”
