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“Nightmares.”
“Ah,” I said consolingly. “Those.”
“Yeah.”
Shifting to one side, I threw back the blankets. “Get in here, then. We’ll cuddle.”
The words slipped out before my brain even had a chance to process them. Then again, I didn’t regret them.
“Come on,” I cooed. “You wanted to make me warm, didn’t you?”
Joshua stared back at me with his stellar good looks and impossibly thick hair, looking wholly and completely conflicted. I thought of our dates together. How he’d always held back. At the time, I thought he simply wasn’t feeling any chemistry on his end. Only now…
Now I could see just the opposite was true. He was holding backbecauseof the chemistry he felt. He shook my hand goodnight because he couldn’t even risk something as simple as a hug.
Even now he inched closer for a moment, then stopped dead in his tracks. His lithe, athletic body stiffened.
“I— I can’t.”
On a whim, I grabbed his granite-like shoulders and pulled him downward. “Yes you can.”
Maybe it was the suddenness of my move, or maybe he just really needed the comforting. Either way, Joshua stretched out and slid beneath the covers. I threw them back over the both of us, before he could change his mind.
“You’re the big spoon,” I chuckled. “Obviously.”
I twisted into him, pulling his big arm over my body. I couldn’t have moved it if he didn’t want me to, which I took as a good sign.
“There we go.”
My cheek hit the pillow, and the warmth and comfort was immediate. It felt insanely good, being this close to a man again. To feel his body pressing tightly against mine. To feel the heat emanating from his core, radiating into me, making me safe.
I’d never been more secure in my life. Protected beyond protected. Cradled by a six-foot gorgeous soldier, beneath thick warm blankets, in the heart of a fortress, at the edge of the sea.
I felt like a princess in a castle. I felt—
Whoa.
Now I felt something else, too. Something thick and heavy, pressing into the groove of my ass.
“Quinn… I—”
“Tell me something,” I interrupted him, before he could say something awkward and then retreat. I clamped my arm over his, locking it tightly around my waist.
“Tell you what?”
I twisted my body into him, until we were nose to nose, face to face. The scent of him was intoxicating. His eyes pleaded with me not to assail the last vestiges of his resolve.
“Tell me why the two of us don’t have sex,” I whispered. “Right here. Right now.”
And then I kissed him.
Sixteen
JOSHUA
Her body was a furnace, searing me with her heat. Her ass firm yet supple, as it screwed back against me, driving me absolutely crazy.
But her lips…
