Page 114 of Floodgates

“Yes,” he said, swallowing hard.

“And you want to come home to me every night, don’t you?”

“More than you know,” he ground out.

“No more running around for you.”

He shook his head.

“Gonna settle down with me,” I murmured.

His lunge made me laugh as he wrapped his arms, corded with thick muscle, around me, crushing me against him. “I’m keeping you, Trace. You need to get it right in your head.”

I already had. Fast had never scared me, only indecision.

When I eased back, he was smiling lazily, the laugh lines in the corner of his eyes crinkling in half, and all of it, just him, drunk with me, was simply too much to resist. I kissed under his impossibly square, sharp jaw. “Don’t be scared anymore.”

“Okay,” he said, resigned, as I leaned back, finished unbuttoning my shirt and slid it off, then put it on the seat of the chair where my leather jacket was as well.

He yanked off his tie and shirt, dropping them on the floor.

“Gimme all that,” I directed, pointing.

“Really? We’re calling off the seduction to tidy up?”

“If you’re not still hot for me after I pick up your clothes, we’re doomed, Nolan.”

Moving quickly, he grabbed his discarded button-down oxford and draped it over the back of the chair, on top of his coat, before turning on me.

I snorted out a laugh before he pounced on me.

“You’re a slob,” I protested as he wrestled me into his arms, carried me to the bed, and fell down with me on top of him.

“Yeah, so what?” he teased, wiggling under me.

I grabbed his hands, pinned him to the mattress, and straddled his hips.

“You’re gonna be taking care of me from now on, right?” he said.

“Doesn’t make me your damn maid,” I said, trying not to laugh.

“Manservant?”

“No,” I insisted.

He huffed out a breath.

“What?”

“I don’t wanna… play.”

I bent and kissed his collarbone. “Why not?”

He moved fast and rolled me to my back, covering my body with his a moment later. “Your eyes are so dark and wet.”

I quivered under him. “I had no idea you were like this—could be like this.”

“You’ve turned me into a sap.”