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“Did you wear that for me?” There was a gruffness to his tone. His question and the way he said it made me tremble.
Turning around with Eli in my arms, I pretended not to know what he was talking about. “Olivia made me buy it…” I glimpsed down at myself. “Does it not suit me? Oh, fudge, it looks awful, doesn’t it? I just don’t look good in dresses.”
“Lucy, your mother is blind,” Elijah told Lucy then turned to me. “You’re absolutely gorgeous.” He leaned forward, grabbing a strand of blonde hair hanging between my breasts, letting it slide between his long fingers. I held my breath until he stepped away.
Lucy trailed through the hallway, peeking her head into the living room. “What happened to all the drawings?”
“I put them upstairs,” Elijah said. “I ordered pizza. Is that okay with you?” He looked at me again. I nodded, grabbing Eli’s hand when he pulled at my dress strap. “Um, I have a box of brownies at my apartment. If you want, I can go back and get them…”
“Yes! I want brownies!” Lucy answered.
“Do you have a mixer?” I asked Elijah.
He scratched his chin. “I think so.”
I walked into his kitchen and checked to make sure he had one before I said, “I’ll be right back.”
Elijah stopped me as I stepped into the hallway. I gaped at him like he was a stranger when he held out his hands for Eli. My gaze went from his hands to his face.
“I can hold him.”
“Are you sure?” I asked.
“Yeah. You’ll only take a minute. I can watch Eli while Lucy supervises me, right Luce?”
Lucy giggled. “Right.”
“She can tell me what to do,” he went on, putting a smile on Lucy’s face.
“I can do it!”
Grinning at them, I handed Eli over. Elijah placed one hand on Eli’s bottom and wrapped an arm around his back, holding my son against his chest. Eli stared at Elijah and then laughed. “This isn’t so bad,” Elijah admitted.
The two of them together. A giant, tattooed man holding my baby? Said man being Elijah. Ovaries exploded.
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“Are you sure you don’t want me to get him?” I asked Elijah as I placed the brownies in the oven. He was propped against the counter watching me with Eli in his arms facing forward so that he could watch me too. Lucy was in the living room drawing.
“He’s fine until he needs a tit,” was Elijah’s crass reply.
“Don’t say it like that.” I laughed, moving toward the sink to clean the dishes.
“He needs to learn to share, hogging them all to himself,” said Elijah.
What?
I froze. Heat lit up my body. Thankfully, my back was turned, so he couldn’t see my red face. Not seeing his expression, though, was torturous. Was he joking or hinting at something totally different?
The wooden counter creaked as he pushed himself off of it. God bless…Elijah was behind me, and the heat from him seeped through me. Eli’s little fingers grabbed at my hair and pulled. I felt nothing. My attention was focused on how Elijah leaned over me.
“You really are a pretty little thing, Hadley,” his voice was deeper, husky—purely sexual. “Instead of gorgeous, I was thinking more along the lines of how fucking edible you look in that dress.”
Damn, I thought. I meant, fudge!
Hiswords spoke to a spot much lower than my stomach. I was speechless, but were words necessary? Suddenly, I didn’t know what to say or how to react. Scott had been the only man I slept with. The idea of sex with Elijah left me shaky. “Elijah…?”
I didn’t have to worry about doing anything though, now that Eli was touching my hair, it wasn’t enough for my little boy. He cried and jerked me out of the sexual trance Elijah put me in. “I think he wants his momma,” Elijah murmured, his voice still raw.
