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Willow sat alone on a chair.Jason stood somewhat awkwardly to one side.Willow watched me approach, her fingers woven together in her lap.Her shoulders strained a little, beginning to curve inward in the slump of someone too long in the seat.
It was the pose of a woman who was used to waiting on others, and I hated that I had done it to her.
“Hey,” I murmured, coming to a halt beside her.“Thanks for staying.”
She stared up at me and for a moment, the peaceful facade cracked.Fury and fear warred for prime real estate.After a long moment, she managed to draw in a shaky breath.“I’m glad to see you’re all right.I wasn’t allowed in.“
“Nah.Locker room is a bunny free zone.”Her head jerked up and I stretched out my hands, palms out.“No wait.That came out wrong.PYou’re not a bunny.It’s just that we don’t have the puck bunnies in there with us and…” Eff, I was mangling this.“Anyway.I’m clean, and I’d love to take you home.”
Her eyes widened.I checked myself and came up short.Of course that sonded like a freaking invitation to fuc k after the one sided bunny conversation.
“Uh, I might-”
“Please, Willow.It’s been a shitful day.I’d like to spend the rest of the night forgetting for now.”
“All right.”
It came out as a whisper.
Jason moved behind her, his bulk reminding me of this morning’s events.I nodded to him and extended a hand to Willow.
She rose in a fluid, graceful movement, sliding her arms around my waist.Her sigh was audible against my shirt as she sank into my body.
I folded my arms around her and held her tight.“Damn but you feel good.”
“So do you.”Her breath warmed me through my long sleeved tee.
I held her against me for a long moment, then finally released her, kissing the top of her head.Loathe as I was to move her, I needed to get us both up and to somewhere warmer and more comfortable.
“Willow, Princess.Let me take you home.”
Please stay with me.
But that sounded too much like begging, and I didn't have the energy for that.
She lifted her face, flushed from hiding beneath her hair, to mine.Dozy eyes stared back at me, her ice blue molten into a lake of fucking sexiness.“Do we have to?”she asked, her voice slightly raw and husky, though all we’d done was hug in a brightly lit, deserted hallway.
Damn, but this girl will give me trouble.
And I wanted every inch of it.
“No.We don’t.”I curled my hand around the back of her neck, drawing her up to me as I dipped my head to meet her lips.
They were as soft as I had pictured, and tasted sweeter than I’d expected.Champagne and strawberries.That’s what my girl tasted like, and it fit her perfectly.
Willow shifted, pressing her body tight against mine as she sighed.
I nibbled her bottom lip, swept my tongue across her lips until she opened for me, tilting her head back to grant me access.Her kiss was slow and gentle and heady.I knew her touch would be the same.The thought of alternating long sessions of driving her slowly mad versus fucking her hard and fast against my bedroom door tore through my head and went straight to my cock.
Her sigh became a moan, and I was done.
Every movement and every noise made my heart ache.I wanted her in my bed every damn night and to wake next to her every morning.
I broke the kiss gently, my chest heaving as I cradled her head in my hands.“Come home with me.Sleep.No sex.Promise.”
“Promise?”Her dozy eyes came alight with mischief.
I kissed the tip of her nose, then gave into the need and kissed her harder.When I pulled away, she was the breathless one.“Promise.For now, anyway.”That was one I wasn’t giving away.I pushed up with Willow in the circle of my arms, and lowered her to the ground in a controlled drop.Then I groaned.“Fuck.Everything aches.”
