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“How about I just jump in the shower with you?” he offered as they walked up to the door.
“Oh no, Mister. You had plenty of that before you left for the gym this morning. You promised me breakfast. Now get cooking!”
Ridge laughed. “Tiring of me already?”
“Never,” she declared. “But the warmness I feel between my legs doesn’t fix the fact that I’m starving, and if you get in the shower with me, it will be hours before I get to eat. Food first, fun later.”
“Okay, you win,” he said, slapping her on the butt as she walked away. “How do you want your eggs?”
“On my plate by the time I get out of the shower.” She smiled cheekily with her back to him as she went down the hall.
“Your bossiness just turns me on more,” he yelled after her.
Ridge went into the kitchen and began breakfast with a smile on his face. His life was good, mostly thanks to Raven, and it would only get better from here on out.
“A personal trainer?”Raven asked with a frown as she buttered her toast.
Ridge looked confused. “Yes, I’ve been thinking about finding work, you knew that. I can’t just sit around and let you support me forever. I thought you’d be as excited for me as I am.”
Raven rolled her eyes. Ridge could sit back forever and support himself off the dividends his money in the bank drew. The only reason she kept working at the bakery was because of the love she had for her boss, and for the feeling of self-satisfaction that came with earning her own way.
“I just never heard you mention wanting to do that before,” she said. Raven was torn between feelings of guilt for not being more supportive and feelings of jealousy over all the women that she knew would flock to the gym just for the opportunity to be trained by Ridge.
He shrugged and took a sip of his coffee. “I never really had until today. When I walked into the gym, I couldn’t miss the big flyer that Sandy was putting up in the window. The gym is recruiting for trainers. I did a lot of physical therapy training in the military. I enjoyed it.”
“You know this wouldn’t be exactly like that, right?” Raven warned. “I mean, in the gym you’re going to be training middle-aged men and women who suddenly got up off the couch one day and realized how badly they’ve let themselves go.”
Ridge looked at her suspiciously. “What precisely do you have against this idea?”
Raven tried to look innocent as she said, “I don’t have anything against the idea,” while simultaneously picturing all the groupies that hung out at his MMA matches, rubbing their sweaty, spandex-clad bodies on him.
“Raven?” Ridge said with that look he got when he knew she wasn’t telling him everything.
She got up from her chair and went over to him. Sitting down on his lap, she put her arms around his neck and said, “Does it make me a horrible person that the first thing I thought of was you putting your hands on other women?”
Ridge threw his head back and laughed. “Oh my God, Raven. Is that what you’re worried about?”
She shrugged. “I wouldn’t say worried…”
Ridge wrapped his strong arms around her and pulled her tight against him. “This is the only body that I’ll ever touch like this. Does that help?”
“A little,” she said, kissing his lips. “Maybe you should show me how else you won’t ever touch anyone else.”
He grinned. Whispering in a husky voice, he said, “Well, for starters, I’ll never do this,” before nuzzling her neck.
She stretched her head to the side, allowing him easier access. “Mm hmm…” she said with her eyes closed. “What else?”
He slid his rough hands underneath the skimpy tank top she had put on after her shower and cupped her breasts over the light summer bra she wore. As he flicked his thumbs across her nipples, he said, “I’ll definitely never do this.”
Then he pulled his right hand out and slipped her shirt up and over her head before he reached around behind her and unclasped the bra. Lowering his head to her chest, he added, “And I promise not to do this…” just before his tongue met one of her nipples.
All Raven could do at that point was moan and squirm on Ridge’s lap. As he pulled loose the ties that cinched her capris at the waist and slipped his hand down inside, brushing softly against her wetness, he said, “And I swear, I’ll never do this.”
“Ohhh, God...” she said as he began to massage her swollen clit through her soaked panties. “Let’s go in the bedroom where you can do all the things to me that you will never do to anyone else.”
His grin broadened, and he swiveled her on his lap so she was facing him with her legs straddled over his. He put one hand underneath her butt and stood up, taking her with him. She wrapped her legs around his waist, and they kissed on their way down the hallway to the bedroom.
When they got there, Ridge laid her down on the bed and pulled her pants the rest of the way off, taking her panties with them. He tossed them on the floor and said, “I don’t know how you can go around looking like that and think that I could possibly ever want to touch anyone else.”
