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“Hey,” Ruby says, leaning toward me and nudging me so I’m forced to look at her. “I’m sorry. I know you’re trying to help. I’ll work this out.”
I nod, feeling oddly numb, considering she’s telling me what I want to hear. “Yeah. Okay.”
She kisses my forehead, my cheek, my chin. I feel myself come back to life at her touch, and I start to calm back down.
She’s not Annabelle. Her issues are not the same. And I’m not the same guy I was two years ago. I’m better. We’re better together. I just need to calm the fuck down.
With a hand on my chest, Ruby pushes me down on the bed. Then she straddles my lap and leans down to kiss me. The minute her lips touch mine, my doubts and fears burn off like the morning dew on the grapevines when the sun begins to blaze. No match against something stronger.
Ruby kisses me slowly, and the heaviness I felt moments ago is replaced by contentment. I’m back in the present, letting regrets about the past slip away and not worrying for once about the future.
This is where I need to stay. If I can manage it. Not sure I can manage it.
Wordlessly, she convinces me I can. Tracing the shape of her lips with my tongue, I stop thinking and let my senses take over. Her lips part and our tongues meet.
The kiss deepens until I can’t distinguish her from me, and even if this one kiss lasts forever, it will never be enough.
I roll us over and grind against her, loving her instant response. Her arms wrap around my back and she pulls me closer. Our kiss never breaks as I slide inside her.
And everything in the world is okay.
ChapterThirty
Ruby
“I have an idea,” Jackson calls from the bathroom, where he’s turned on the shower. I can feel the steam creeping into the bedroom.
I’m not sure how I feel about ideas when I’m trying to figure out how I feel about Jackson. Scratch that. I know how I feel—I’m falling hard and fast for the guy, and I still can’t read him all the time. Something felt off last night. At least, I think it did.
I know I pushed him away when I was worrying about Ella, and he pulled back too. But maybe that was just a reaction to me. Ugh, I should stop reading so much into everything.
“I hope it doesn’t entail me getting out of bed because I think I’m dead.” I lost count of the orgasms after three. Or ten.
Sunlight edges through the cracks in the blinds, letting me know it’s well past sunrise. Even though it’s expected to top a hundred degrees today, it’s cool in Jackson’s bedroom, and I take advantage of my alone time here to stretch my body like a starfish and take over the bed.
Jackson peeks through the bathroom door, looking all tanned and gorgeous as sin without a stitch of clothing. “Come on, lazybones.”
“Hardly lazy. I stayed up with you all night, didn’t I?”
He nods, beckoning me with a finger. “And now I want more.”
Rolling off the bed, I groan because all of my various body parts are exhausted, but I’m not about to pass up a hot, steamy shower with Jackson. Sleep can wait.
“What’s your idea?” I ask, stepping onto the river rock floor. It’s like a day spa in here, with multiple jets shooting out of the walls and an overhead rain shower. Jackson already has a washcloth lathered with soap, and he rolls it over my breasts. “You better tell me quickly before all my brain cells melt away.”
“Let’s go wine tasting.”
I bark out a laugh. “Seriously? You work at a winery. I thought you wanted to get away today.”
“I do. I don’t taste wine for a living, and you ought to be checking out the competition. Call it professional development.”
“In other words, you want to day drink.”
“It’s a Saturday, and we’re in the wine country. It’s what people do.”
Jackson turns me toward one of the jets to rinse off the soap. “Fine,” I pant. “I’ll do whatever you want today.”
He pulls me close, pressing his cheek to mine, lips whispering dirty things into my ear. “Tell me how badly you want me to fuck you,” he growls.
