Page 75 of Carver’s Craving

“Yeah?”

He nodded. “Barring any crisis with Baxter—” He winced.

I stroked his cheek again.

“I’d like to stay. For now. For as long as you’ll have me.”

My heart soared. Stay calm. You don’t want to frighten him. But you also need to say something to reassure him. I smiled. “You’re welcome to stay. Christmas last year was, frankly, pretty lonely.”

“This year you’ve got Lorcan and Cody’s party.”

“For half a day. And trust me, I’ll treasure my time with Walter and Poppin—but it’d be different to have you here. In a good way.” God, let me be saying the right things.

“Truly?”

I feathered his hair. “Truly.”

Another wide smile. “Well okay, then.” He pressed his cock against mine. “Now are you going to fuck me?”

“I think I can arrange that.”

“Do you need to check on the kids first?”

Holding very still, I listened for any sound.

Nothing.

This time, I grinned. “I think we’re okay.”

He licked his lips. “This is going to be fun.” He squeezed my ass. “And I want to be on my back. I want to look in your eyes when you come—something I missed out on last Friday. The first time we—” Another brushing of cocks.

“Which I might always regret.”

His mouth turned down.

“No, sweetheart. Not that fate brought us together. But that I didn’t see your face. That I didn’t know it was you.”

He sort of nodded. “But if you’d known? Would you have gone through with it?”

His question caught me completely off guard. I hadn’t considered that at all. I should have—but I hadn’t. “Probably not.” Here, I needed to be honest. “After I got over the shock? I think I would’ve been too disconcerted. Hell, it took me days before we could even kiss or I let you give me a blow job. Too weird for words.”

“So it’s a good thing the hookup was anonymous. At least as far as we knew.” He arched an eyebrow.

“Yep. No question. And I’m glad I was with you—even if I wasn’t conscious of that fact. Hell, maybe some part of me knew. Recognized your voice or your body or—” I floundered. “But probably not.”

He pressed a kiss to my lips. “So, face-to-face?”

“You bet.” Slowly, I eased myself off him

He pushed himself up onto his elbows. “Man, I can’t wait for this show.”

“May I prep you? As I did that night?”

“For certain. But I need you to get hard first. So I can salivate and imagine what it’ll be like to have that beautiful thing in my ass.”

I laughed. I didn’t see my cock as beautiful. In fact, aside from utilitarian purposes, I rarely thought about it at all. That changes tonight. If he sees me as beautiful, then that’s what I’ll be for him. First, though, I needed to return the compliment. “You grew into a super sexy man. Untouchable…but enough to rev my engine. So I feel damn lucky to have you in our bed.”

He grinned. “Oh, this is going to be fun.”