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Her hands were shaking slightly as she tried to rebutton her blouse. Landon pushed her hands away, taking over the task. When his fingers lightly stroked the tops of her breasts, she knew it was no accidental touch.
Her eyes, still downcast, were in the perfect position to see that he was not unaffected by what had just happened. His pants were tented with his erection—and she suddenly felt guilty.
Sunnie reached toward his pants, but Landon clasped her wrist in his firm hand. “No sex,” he repeated, though his voice was gruff and the words sounded somewhat strained.
Unable to avoid it any longer, she looked up into his eyes.
And saw Landon.
Cocky bastard was grinning.
She laughed, the sound somewhat shaky. “How the hell…where did you learn to…”
Her words faded away as his eyes narrowed.
“I’m a nice guy, Sunnie. Apparently, you think that’s synonymous with ‘lousy in bed.’ If you weren’t dating gym rats hopped up on steroids all the time, you would know that’s not true.”
“They weren’t on steroids.” Then she paused, quickly adding, “Well, the lumberjack probably was.”
Landon shook his head. “He definitely was. Idiot was so buff, he couldn’t put his freaking arms down by his sides. Only thing he was missing was the ax.”
Sunnie giggled, feeling strangely lighter and happier than she had in ages. She’d missed him the past couple of weeks.
“You haven’t been around much lately,” she said.
“I know. That was a mistake.” He gave her a very sweet, very Landon-like kiss on the cheek, then headed for the door. He stopped and bent over to pick up her panties.
She held out her hand for them, but he shook his head, shoving them in his pocket.
“Um, those are mine, hotshot.”
Landon ignored her, reaching for the doorknob. “Mine now,” he said, unlocking it. Once he glanced outside to make sure no one was there, he turned back and winked at her. “Souvenir.”
Sunnie laughed, tugged her skirt farther down, and then followed him back to the table.
Chapter Ten
“Sunnie,” Landon murmured quietly, shaking her gently. “Sunnie.”
She slept like the dead, so he tried again.
“Mmmm,” she hummed, clearly not awake yet.
“Rise and shine, Sunshine.”
Sunnie’s hair was a tangled mess on the pillow, the covers twisted in a pretzel. She slept on her stomach, arms stretched upwards, diagonally on the queen-size mattress.
Sunnie and Yvonne had shared a bedroom up until about a year ago when their older cousins Caitlyn and Ailis moved in with their boyfriends. That left an extra room, so Yvonne claimed it. Sunnie, delighted to have more space, immediately traded in the single bed for a queen. He knew that because it had been he and Finn who’d lugged the old bed out and the new one in.
She wore an oversized T-shirt and boxers.
“Sunnie,” he tried again, sitting on the side of the mattress, shaking her a bit harder.
She blinked a few times, and he suspected she was trying to focus.
“Landon?”
“Yeah. You need to get up, babe.”
