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“I want to take you to bed,” he whispers, grazing his lips across my cheek and down my neck.
“That’s a given.”
He pulls back and holds my gaze. I’m not sure what it is, but something passes in the depths of those dark chocolate eyes. Before I can ask about it, he takes my hand and slowly leads me out of the kitchen, flipping off the light as we go.
When we reach the bedroom, he stops me in the middle of the room. Carefully, he starts to undress me. With each item of clothing he removes, he places kisses somewhere on the exposed skin. He spends a little extra time showering my belly with love. There’s nothing sexier than a man who worships a baby belly.
Finally naked, he quickly removes his own clothing and guides me to the bed. His mouth claims mine once more as he covers my body with his. My legs instantly wrap around his hips, which opens me up perfectly for him. With a kiss that could make me forget my name, he shifts his lower body and presses inside me. One long, fluid motion, and he’s seated fully.
We groan together without breaking the kiss. My hips start to rock to a silent rhythm, as his body does the same. My hands sweep across his back before settling in his hair. My nails bite into his scalp, causing a sigh and moan to slip from his mouth. Logan adjusts his position so he’s on his right elbow and slides his hand from my side to my stomach to my breasts.
We’re both seeking pleasure in the other but doing everything we can to give it too.
My release comes fast and hard and I’m not prepared for it. I don’t want this to end. I want to keep going, to keep pushing toward the release without toppling over the edge. But now that it’s within my grasp, I can’t stop it. I explode with so much force, I swear my soul leaves my body.
And he’s right there with me.
He claims my mouth once more with his and comes, mimicking the movements of his lower half with his tongue. No words are spoken. We just feel. And what I feel is love. For him. For this life we’re creating.
The one that wasn’t mine to begin with.
A single tear slides from my eye, and he brushes it away. “Don’t cry, Hallie,” he whispers, brushing his mouth across mine again. It’s as if he can’t stop kissing me.
Not that I want him to.
When the tremors of release subside, he rolls us both to our sides and curls me against his body. He’s warm and comfortable, and exactly where I want to be. In his arms. Surrounded by his strength and goodness.
This is the exact moment I realize I fell in love. I wasn’t expecting it—I definitely wasn’t looking for it with him—but it happened. When I least expected it, my heart was stolen by the one man who drives me crazy.
Now what? What am I supposed to do?
Confess? Chances are he doesn’t feel the same. We both agreed to sex while we were staying together, but that’s as far as it went. There were no promises for the future outside of co-parenting our baby, no declarations of happily ever after. We were never going to be a couple.
It’s sex, plain and simple.
Despite feeling a hell of a lot like more.
The sooner I come to terms with the truth, the better off I’ll be.
So even though my heart feels like it’s breaking, I burrow into his chest deeper and hold on tighter, because if this is as far as it goes, I’m going to take it while I can. I’m going to love Logan, probably well after our living arrangement comes to an end and I’m alone once more. Only then, I’ll have to continually see him. A lot. It will be both heaven and hell.
All because I fell in love when I wasn’t supposed to.
Just like every time before.
I fall for the wrong guy and end up getting hurt.
“Hey,” I greet Blair as I join her for lunch the following Wednesday at the local pizza joint.
“I’m so glad you texted. I was wanting to see if you were interested in a shopping trip soon. I want to go to Hudson and hit a few stores for last minute wedding stuff. Did you get your dress?”
“Yes, it arrived in the mail the other day,” I tell her. “It fits now, but something tells me it’ll be another story in a month.”
Blair and Gabe’s wedding is just over four weeks away and coming fast. Between Thanksgiving next week, the holiday season, Christmas and a wedding, the days are flying by and the to-do list is growing.
“I can’t wait to see it,” she replies with an eager grin.
“Anything from TD and Ellie?” I ask, hoping she might have the inside scoop on their push to have a baby.
