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He chuckles softly. His body shakes under me, and he wraps his arm around me to squeeze me tightly. “What makes you say that?”
I shrug. “I don’t know. Something just feels different, like things are changing. Maybe because Kennedy isn’t here tonight, and she’s doing the sleepover with the kids at Storm’s.” I push up on my elbow and look at him, the slight graying at his temples and in his beard, the only real changes in him since the day I stormed into his office and told him off. “It’s our first Christmas Eve without her here. The first morning we’ll go to the fireplace and not have gifts from Santa there and in the stockings since we’re opening everything at your mom’s.”
Savage’s brow furrows. “Isn’t that kind of sad, though? I don’t know why it would make you feel like this is a ‘great’ thing.”
Well, when he puts it like that…
“Sort of.” I picture Kennedy as she was on her first Christmas, her blond curls and the excitement of tearing open presents. “I guess she isn’t a baby anymore.”
He barks out a laugh, his face lighting up. “She’s sixteen, Dani. She hasn’t been a baby for alongtime. And sixteen-year-olds don’t believe in Santa or need the fanfare of his arrival. She hasn’t since she was what, seven or eight?”
I trail my finger across his chest. “I know. Thanks for reminding me how much I hate that she’s growing up and throwing ice water on my good mood.”
Savage tilts my chin up with a finger under it. “You don’t hate that she’s growing up. Neither of us particularly enjoyed diaper duty or midnight feedings. What you hate is that she’s almost an adult and you can’t control her anymore.”
I scowl at him. “When could weevercontrol Kennedy?”
He grins and runs his fingers through my still-damp hair. “True. Since the moment she came into this world, it was clear she is so much likeyou.”
The tiniest pang of annoyance hits my chest. “You say that like it’s a bad thing.”
Savage shakes his head. “Definitely not. While I hope she has more common sense than you and doesn’t rush off chasing things the way you do stories without thinking about the consequences, I wouldn’t want her to be like me.” He inhales deeply. “I’m too…”
“You’re too what?”
He glances up at the ceiling like he’s trying to think of the right word. “Mercurial.”
I laugh and press a kiss to the center of his chest. “You are definitely that, but you’re also the strongest man I know.”
“I don’t know about that.”
He’s so bad at taking compliments. Even after all these years, he can’t just accept how much I see in him.
“I do.” I push up to press a chaste kiss to his lips. “You have proven it to me over and over again. Things may be changing, but I have a feeling it’s for the better.”
He raises a dark brow at me. “I guess we’ll have to see.” His gaze cuts to the clock. “We have to be at Mom’s in seven hours, and we still have to load all the presents into the car in the morning before we go.”
“Okay, so what are you saying?” I grin at him. “That we should actually get some sleep?”
Throwing my leg across his pelvis, I slide my body fully over him, settling my core over his dick.
He groans. “Dani…”
“I have another idea.”
Because he’s right—we sorarelyget time alone in the house, when we don’t have to worry about whether Kennedy might come barging into our room unannounced.
We need to make good use of it while we have it…
I kiss my way down his chest, over his stomach, and toward his cock that’s already hard again between us. He watches me with hooded eyes, his breaths coming short and sharp in anticipation. I slip my mouth around him, and the taste of both our releases dances across my tongue.
“Fucking hell, woman.” He buries his fingers in my hair and tightens his grip as I suck him down, all the way to the back of my throat. “Fuck, your mouth is nuclear.”
I laugh around his flesh, the vibration making his body twitch, then slowly withdraw, only to swallow him back. He grunts, and I wrap my hand around the base of his length and stroke as I work him over, building him quickly, doing it exactly the way I know he likes it.
He issues a low groan to let me know he’s close, and his body tenses. I flick my tongue along that spot at the bottom of the head, and he erupts, shooting deep down my throat.
The moan that fills the room makes my clit ache, desperate to have him inside me again so quickly. I swallow every last drop and slowly lick him as he twitches one more time.
