Seb reached behind her and switched on the shower. The room soon filled with steam, and he herded her into the stall, her back to his chest.He buried his mouth in the side of Sunny’s neck, his hands spanning her waist. It was the best feeling in the world.
“There’s no rush for anything, baby. You can look at me when you’re ready to.”
Now she felt childish and sighed, but Seb didn’t seem to mind as he stood behind her, giving her occasional kisses to the back of her neck while he soaped himself up.
“Sunbeam, your ass is phenomenal,” he remarked minutes later. Sunny yelped and slapped both of her hands on her rear end, much to Seb’s amusement.
“Sebastian, you can’t say things about my butt.”
“I sure as fuck can when it looks that good.” And he gently pulled her hands away and replaced them with his, palming the fullness of her cheeks.
He made her feel sexy and attractive,wanted. And that went a long way to calming her body shyness.
“Aren’t you afraid my dad will kill you for touching me? He’s overly protective.”
Seb nipped her shoulder with his teeth. “I’d damn me and the universe to the sweaty pits of hell so that I could touch you.”
Heat swept through her cheeks, and without thinking about how shy she felt, she turned around, keeping her eyes at shoulder level. She made a noise when Seb’s hands roamed. He didn’t touch her anywhere intimately. Each stroke of his light fingertips filled her with excited helium over her shoulders, along her collarbone, across her cheek, down to her stomach.
It was only as Seb soaped up his hands and then he picked up her arm to wash her that Sunny started to ramble with run-on sentences to hide how good it felt that he was touching her.
“This one time, at a county fair, my dad scared the pants off this boy who tried beckoning me to his stall.”
She watched Sebastian’s eyes narrow, showing a little teeth. “I remember that. I waited for you guys to walk ahead, and I warned him to keep his eyes to himself, or I’d spoon them out and feed them to him.”
Oh. “You really did that?”
“I’ve done it more than once when boys looked at you.”
His unapologetic declaration made her stomach flutter with excitement. “Now it makes sense why no one ever asked me out.”
Seb chuckled, and his hand slid up her spine until he cupped underneath her hair. “Guys wanted to, baby. You just had a demon in the background warning every horny asshole away from you.”
Her heart flooded with heat and beat only for him.
Forgetting her naked shyness, Sunny found Seb’s fiery eyes low-lidded and focused on her. Droplets of water dripped from his long, dark eyelashes and onto his lips.
“What else did you do to stop other boys from noticing me?”
“They always noticed you, sunbeam. I just stopped it from going further.”
Her ribcage expanded as she sucked in. “Come on, tell me, please.”
“The first year you were in Texas, I’d ride through weekly to check on you. I followed you one time, and you were studying in a cafe, oblivious to a table of frat dickwads watching you. I overheard one tell his buddy that when they left, he would ask you to a party that night, saying you were a sure thing because you were a book nerd and he was on top of his game. I let them know what would happen to their puny dicks if they approached you.”
He recounted it with conviction, and it took her breath away. Her chest warmed all over. She should be furious because he’d been so sneaky behind her back. It was the proper reaction toan overbearing man, but this was her Sebastian, and it wasn’t anything she hadn’t secretly longed for.
So she beamed at him. “I wish I’d seen you being all scowly and ready to fight for my honor.”
He only half smiled and shook his head. “It wasn’t right of me, sunbeam. I should have let you live a full life, not bulldozed it from around the edges.”
“You know by now, it’s always been you for me, Sebastian. I didn’t do an outstanding job of masking it. No other boys ever took my attention away from you. I thought it was unrequited, so to hear about your macho antics makes me giddy.”
His eyes blazed, and he dropped his head an inch, caressing his breath over her lips.
It was as though time stood still, and she wondered if he was going to do anything about their nakedness. She had the answer a second later when he hustled her out of the shower and wrapped her in a towel. Then himself.
However, as he reached for a third towel, positioned himself behind Sunny, and dried the ends of her hair, a frown creased her brow as she looked at him in the mirror.
