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But Mark’s eyes were simmering with lust as he filled his hands with my breasts. “I love seeing you like this. Will you ride me?”
I nodded and enthusiastically enclosed my hands around his hardening length. It made me smirk that I wasn’t the only one who’d come to bed naked. “It’s funny we wore the same outfit to bed tonight.”
“I’d suggest we go to bed together every night this way, but I suppose when Tristan gets a big-boy bed, we might have a visitor sometimes and should wear clothes.”
My eyes went wide with the vision. Suddenly, I had a picture of our future so clearly that it knocked the breath from me.
“Shit, Jules. Sorry. I got carried away with my thoughts. I didn’t mean to spook you. And here I said we could go slow and I wouldn’t push you. Then I up and say that.”
I held a finger to his lips. Oh, how times had changed. He was the one rambling while I was the one shocked into few words. “I want that future. I want you.”
I might not be sure of everything, but the one thing I did believe was that I absolutely wanted a life with this amazing man who was now under me.
Hovering over him, I aligned his thick length with my entrance. Then I sank down onto every glorious inch. We were skin on skin, and the intimacy could not have been greater.
He took a shuddered breath and pulled me down for a passionate kiss that left me completely drunk on the taste of him. But he didn’t stop there. He rolled me over so he was on top of me, spreading my legs wider and then moving with long, measured strokes. “I love the thought of coming deep inside of you. You have no idea how much it turns me on to be with you like this. Nothing between us. I promise I’ll never stop making you happy.”
My hands stroked his face and then down over his chest before he lifted my hips up and found the spot which made my toes curl.
After we’d both come together in a frenzy, we lay there connected for the longest time. This was so much better than him getting out of bed to dispose of a condom.
“I realize this sounds primitive, but I hope I knocked you up tonight.”
I smiled in the dark, waiting for the panic to hit me, but none came. Mark wasn’t the type of man to make promises he didn’t intend to keep. And he wasn’t the type to let himself feel again after the death of his fiancée if it wasn’t real.
“I have to actually stop the Pill I just started taking again and even then it may not be right away. Sometimes it takes a while.”
He kissed my nose. “Oh, ye of little faith in my sperm. I give it a month, two tops, with all the trying I have in mind.”
I wouldn’t argue with that plan. “I want to move back down to Charlotte before Christmas. I was thinking next week, if possible.”
“Into your house?”
I shook my head. “I don’t ever want to live there again. In fact, I want to have a massive garage sale and sell everything except for Tristan’s things and my clothes. Um, what about your house? Will you sell it?”
“Either that or rent it out.”
“Do I get to see it?” Although the words were light, the intention behind them wasn’t. He was keeping some of his past from me. Although I understood that he didn’t want to relive the pain, I needed some reassurance that he was ready to move on. Chalk it up to my insecurity, but I wanted to put my mind at ease.
He pulled out, tucking me into the curve of his body. “I’d rather you didn’t, at least not until I can clean it up. When it comes to crap everywhere, the place makes my office look like child’s play. I need to get rid of a lot of stuff.”
It wasn’t a no. And considering how embarrassed he’d been with the state of his office, his feelings about his home made sense. “Okay. And what about telling everyone about us?”
It occurred to me that I should’ve asked these questions before we’d had unprotected sex. But now they were flowing out as if I’d opened the floodgates.
His words were measured. “I’d prefer to tell both Josh and Brian in person. They’re my best friends. More than that, though, I’m afraid Brian might be weird about it. I presume, given your friendship with him, you’d want to be there, too?”
“Yeah. I suppose I would. But why would he be weird about it?” Brian thought the world of Mark, and I would hope he’d want me to be happy.
“There are three women in Brian’s life who he’s always respected more than anything. Sasha, of course; his little sister, Kenzie; and you. Given his reaction to finding out Josh’s younger brother Colby was dating Kenzie, well, I’d like to ensure we tell him before we tell anyone else.”
I laughed. “Don’t tell me you think Brian is going to punch you? He only did that to Colby because there was a misunderstanding. Brian thought Colby had gone from sleeping with a stripper straight to Kenzie’s bed. Plus, if you want the truth, he still feels terrible about it. It’s not as though he’s a violent kind of guy, usually.”
“No, but he’s going to want to ensure you’re happy. That I didn’t take advantage of you in a rebound phase or something.”
I frowned. “I’m a big girl, and I’m definitely not rebounding.”
He chuckled. “No, you’re not. It’s only because he loves you like a sister that I bring this up. How about once we get to Charlotte and get settled for a while, we’ll take Brian and Sasha out to dinner and tell them? After he knows, we can tell Josh and Haylee.”
