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“Not a chance.”
Even more awesome.
She relaxed under his soothing massage, her nipple hardening under his fingers. She was exactly where she wanted to be with the kind of guy she wanted to be with. Didn’t he knowthat?
Head pressed against his chest so she wouldn’t see his face, she told him. “I don’t want to be with multitudes of other guys. I want to be withyou.”
“I know,” he whispered. He kissed her forehead and then nuzzled his face againsthers.
He feels it too. Even though he won’t say it. Her chest warmed at the realization.
Then she started to sink again as she recalled the complexity of their situation. “How do we do this? Get to know each other, I mean. With you being you, and all. What do wedo?”
He returned his hand to her breast. “I don’t know about you, but I’m fondling. I can give you some suggestions aswell.”
“Micah, I’m serious.”
He sighed. “I know.” He was quiet for a moment and she wondered if he wouldn’t answer her. But then he did. “I don’t know. I haven’t done this either. Not successfully. The press like to connect me with every woman I come into contact with. They’ll say that I’m with someone or another, and they will have pictures, but you can’t believeit.”
“I told you, I don’t read gossip magazines.”
“Good. Don’t start. And the minute they find out I’m seeing you…it will be tough, Maddie, I’m not going tolie.”
“So then we should try to remain media free. Don’t you think?”
“If we want to stay media free, we have to sneak around onset.”
She swallowed. “I realize that.” She couldn’t deny that it made her more than a little sad to be Micah’s secret. The way she was feeling about him, she wanted to tell the world. But they were still so new, and she really did want to give their relationship a chance. “I suppose I can live withit.”
He tilted up her chin so he could look her in the eye. “It won’t mean anything, Maddie. What other people say or know. It’s between you and me. If you wonder at all, you ask me. You have to promise.”
His seriousness was so startling she took a moment to answer. “Okay, I promise.”
“Thank you.” He released her chin and stroked her cheek. “If we stay low on set we’ll have a better shot of staying out of the media’s eye. It won’t be easy. But while we have the excuse of working together I think we could pull it off. That gives us…what? Four weeks left to figure the restout.”
“Four weeks...,” she repeated. It felt like she was saying ‘four minutes.’
“To figure it out,” he added.
It was a step in the right direction. Nothing permanent, but at least she knew where she stood with him fornow.
Micah shifted, turning his whole body toward her. “But we’re not figuring it out right this minute. Right now I seriously have some suggestions of things you could be doing while I resume my fondling.”
She grinned. “Naughty things, Ihope.”
“Extremely.” He growled as his mouth found her neck, nipping along her throat.
Her heart flip-flopped at the primitive sound. “Tell me,” she hissed. “Tell me what todo.”
He lifted his head and gazed at her considering. “Touch yourself.”
“Hmm, what?” She wasn’t naïve, she knew what he meant. He wanted her to play with herself. But she’d never done that in front of anyone, and while she wasn’t saying no, she wanted him to tell her how to doit.
He circled her nose with his own. “I want you to touch yourself.” He licked at her upper lip. “As if you were thinking about me.” He kissed her once. “Do you make yourself come while thinking aboutme?”
Holy hell, did she ever. How many nights had she slept on wet sheets because of the orgasms she’d brought herself to with him on the brain?
“Yes.” She met hiseyes.
