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Thank goodness the studio was okay with her doing her own video content like she used to do. Normally between seasons she took the time to rest, try new recipes and occasionally she’d post something on her channel. This break, though, maybe she would do more.
Soft lips brushed her shoulder, and the arm around her belly tightened. Her eyes drifted shut again as she gave herself over to the sweet kisses Callum was placing on her back. The hard ridge of his morning erection nudged her ass, and she leaned farther back into it.
“Morning,” she murmured.
“It is a good one,” he said as he rolled her to her back and he leaned over her.
Last night he’d played her body like he was a first violinist in the Los Angeles Symphony. He’d taken her to the brink of orgasm so many times before pulling back until she was writhing beneath him and begging for him to let her fall over the cliff face. Eventually he’d let her, and her orgasm had been fiercer than anything she’d experienced with him.
“I don’t recall saying ‘good morning,’ just ‘morning.’” She tweaked his nipple, enjoying his sharp intake of breath.
“Any morning with you is a good.” His large hand enclosed her breast, squeezing gently.
Astrid arched farther into the touch, letting her need for him possess her. In the back of her mind, she knew that she needed to face the day. Face the consequences of what had happened the previous day. That could all wait though. This couldn’t. She didn’t want it to wait.
“Take me, Callum,” she whispered as she ground her hips against his hard erection.
“Always,” he responded before he kissed her and she lost herself to the moment. To the way he made her feel. To the bliss the two of them were creating.
When he slid into her, Astrid’s heart swelled, and she clutched his shoulders, keeping his chest pressed against hers so that all that moved were their lower bodies. The rise of her pelvis as she took him in. The lowering as he pulled out until only the tip of him remained.
Her senses went into overdrive. Her skin tingled as her release built up until it consumed her and she called out his name as he called out hers at the same time.
Morning sex was something she could really get used to. They were in sync with each other, and their breaths came out in ragged pants.
Callum gathered her close, and she snuggled into his hold, knowing that soon the real world would intrude and everything she’d been able to forget about for a few minutes would be back, knocking at the front of her mind, demanding her attention.
All too soon, Callum loosened his hold and slid toward the opposite side of the bed. Astrid wanted to reach out and pull him back, but instead she clutched the sheet to her. This feeling sorry for herself wasn’t how she operated and she gave herself a few more seconds to absorb it in before tossing the covers aside and going to the bathroom, just as Callum was coming out.
“Want me to join you in the shower?” he asked with a wink.
Astrid laughed, her blue mood fading away. “As tempting as it is, not this time.”
Callum’s eyes narrowed, as though he was trying to see into her brain to see if she was okay. Astrid held his gaze, not wanting him to know the turmoil that still lingered within her. “I’ll get started on breakfast,” he said instead, and she released her breath in a big whoosh as he pulled on some sweatpants and departed the bedroom.
Astrid leaned against the door frame and closed her eyes. The image of Callum’s fine ass and back imprinted behind her eyelids.
Part of the previous night’s conversation came back to her. The information that Ox was expanding Alliez’s business and would be taking on assignments that would require them all to go on trips, or missions, he called it. How often would they be called away?
Could she deal with him leaving her on a regular basis?
It wasn’t like he would be away for months on end, like if he was still in the military. At least she didn’t think so. But the thought of him going to go do something dangerous. Go into a situation where he might not come back to her frightened the life out of her.
Maybe she was making too much of it all. Maybe the trips wouldn’t be as dangerous as what he’d done when he’d been a SEAL.
All that mattered was if she could let him go and be okay with it?
Astrid headed to the shower and pondered the question. The feelings she had for Callum weren’t false or surface level. They were deep and growing deeper with every passing moment they spent together.
They hadn’t known each other long, but they’d spent nearly every waking hour with each other. He was a quiet presence that she knew she could count on when she needed him.
Was she caught up in a Stockholm Syndrome kind of situation?
No, she didn’t believe she was.
All she knew was that if she couldn’t see him. Touch him. Love him. Then her life was going to be an empty shell. There was no way she could go back to how she was before Callum. Her professional life wouldn’t change, but her personal life had. It had changed the moment she’d locked eyes with him in the Alliez conference room, and it had changed for the better.
If she only had Callum for a short while, then at least she’d had him and wouldn’t have to wonder what might have happened between them had she pushed him away because of his job.
