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I left her and made my way out to the living room where the kids had the movie ready to go. This night had turned into the strangest fucking night, but I couldn’t deny it felt good to be with Lily and her family. Even when Hannah joined us and didn’t shut up during most of the movie, I felt more relaxed than I’d felt in years.
Lily was still in the bath two hours later when the movie finished. The kids scattered to their rooms, and Brynn and Hannah had gone home a little while before the movie finished. I turned off the television and went looking for Lily.
Leaning against the doorjamb of her bathroom, I crossed my arms over my chest. “Have you been in there all this time?”
She cracked an eye open and shook her head. “No, I did some laundry first and got some stuff ready for tomorrow.”
“What’s happening tomorrow?”
“The girls are both hanging out with their friends while I take Robbie to karate and then to the science centre. It’s gonna be another long-ass day.”
“Today was long?”
She sighed. “Every day is long, King.”
Fuck, guilt hit me over pushing her into adding to her long days by working with Skylar. “Maybe you should cut your sessions back with Skye.”
She sat up, and my eyes were drawn to her tits that were now on display above the bubbles. “What is this?”
I frowned. “What is what?”
She pointed her finger between the two of us. “This. You having dinner with my family and then watching a freaking movie with my kids. You being nice to my mother. God, you being nice to me. Where’s the moody man I know so well? And why are you saying I should cut back my sessions when you told me just yesterday not to?” She stood and got out of the bath, coming to me, water and bubbles dripping everywhere. A fierce expression had settled on her face. Jabbing me in the chest, she added forcefully, “You are so freaking confusing!” Then grabbing her towel, she wrapped it around herself and walked into her bedroom.
I reached for her arm and yanked her back to me. “I don’t know what the fuck this is, but I can’t stay away. That smart mouth of yours, and sweet fucking ways turn me the hell on. And your family? I like them. They’re honest and real, and you don’t fucking find that often anymore.”
Her eyes searched mine for a long few moments before we got to what was really doing her head in. She pushed out of my hold like she was trying to keep some distance between us. “You made it clear you don’t want anything but sex, and I figure you’re not just getting that from me. Which is fine. I’m not saying it’s not. But I’m not into that, King. I thought we were just going to sleep together once, and I was good with that. Kind of. But then I met Ivy and I realised I am so far from good with it, it’s not funny. So you should go back to doing what you were doing before you met me, and we should call it quits.”
Fuck I liked a woman who got to the fucking point and didn’t play games with me.
I pulled her close again. “We need to get a few things straight. One, I’m not fucking Ivy. That’s an old relationship that will never be revisited. Two, I’m not fucking anyone else. And three, there is no fucking way you and I are calling it quits.” I gripped her waist and backed her up against the wall. “I wasn’t looking for a relationship, and I can’t say it’s high on my priority list, but I also can’t say I don’t want to keep seeing you. What I can say is that I don’t want to see anyone else.” My mouth brushed her ear as I added, “You are the only woman I want to fuck.”
Her hands came to my chest and she tried to push me away. “King—”
I refused to budge. Taking hold of her face, I angled it up to mine. “I’m not letting you walk away from this, so don’t even think about that.”
Her eyes widened. “So what, you’ll just force your way into my life?”
“I won’t need to. You want this as much as I do. And fuck, the way you opened up to me when I fucked you, you can’t deny how good that sex was.”
She contemplated that before scrunching my shirt into her hands. “Has anyone ever told you how infuriating you are? Because you are. And yet, all I wanna do is kiss you. It’s freaking maddening to me how you manage to get away with shit.” And then, before I had a chance to kiss her, she pushed me away and escaped my hold. Walking to her wardrobe, she threw over her shoulder, “FYI, my body is still sore after you fucked the hell out of it, so there won’t be any sex for you tonight. Plus, my kids are here tonight, so there’s that, too.”
Fucking hell, this woman.
“I didn’t come here for sex, Lily.”
She dropped her towel, giving me half a minute with her body before she covered it back up with a T-shirt. Nowhere near fucking long enough. “So are you staying or are you going? I’m good with staying, because I like having you to cuddle up to.”
I jerked my chin at her bed before pulling my shirt over my head. “Get your ass in there.”
/> She grinned. “Now there’s the King I know.” And then she made my fucking day by doing what I said.
36
Lily
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I wasn’t sure what I’d agreed to with King. All I knew for sure was the man was pushy with a capital freaking P. The other thing I knew for sure, and I was surprised as hell at, was that he could get through a night in my bed without trying to fuck me. That’s not to say he could go a night without having his hands all over me, and his body pressed as hard to mine as possible, but I had to give him credit for respecting my wishes.
