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I turn to look at him, his hair ruffled on his head from sleep, his eyes heated and that sexy little smile he has on his face that makes me feel like I’m the only woman in the universe.
“Stop being sexy. I’m trying to lay out my clothes for in the morning. I’m nervous.”
“Why are you nervous?”
“It’s my first lunch with Luna since we inadvertently announced we were a couple. What if she freaks out on me?”
“Baby, get over here.”
“Ben—”
“Get over here now, Junie,” he growls and butterflies in my stomach choose this moment to flutter to life as his growl vibrates in the very center of me, making the inside of my thighs damp.
“But I can’t find my panties, or the silver clasp I use to put my hair up. I can’t figure it out. I know I left them here on the dresser this morning.”
“Maybe you just thought you did and left them at my house instead,” he suggests. “And you have all of ten seconds to get my shirt off and bring that hot little body over here and sit on my face.”
“Ben, this is important,” I stress, still looking in my drawers and any other place that might be hiding my pale lilac bra and panty set.
“Me having the taste of you on my tongue again is important.”
I finally give up, laughing as I go to the bed and he pulls me down. I don’t sit on his face, but I do curve my body into him, hugging him close and that seems to be good enough for him right now.
“You’re so insane,” I mutter, kissing his shoulder.
“Over you, Baby. Over you,” he says kissing the top of my head as I stretch my leg over his body to get closer. “Tell me why you’re so nervous,” he urges, and I frown.
“Because it’s Luna and you cared about her, and I know I shouldn’t, but I look at her and remember you calling me by her name and…”
“Junie—”
“I know you care about me, Ben. Please don’t think that. I’m just… freaking out a little.”
“I’m sorry, Baby. I know it’s my fault and there’s nothing I can do to fix it, but I promise you that looking at Luna is nothing more than looking at a friend for me.”
“I’m just being overly sensitive, Ben. Ignore me.”
He kisses the side of my neck and we lie there in silence for a little while. He finally breaks it, and I wish he hadn’t.
“Tell me why you didn’t want to tell me about the vandalism, Junie.”
“Ben—”
“No secrets between us, remember? You had to know that I needed to know something had happened. I can’t protect you from outside threats if I know nothing about them.”
“It’s the words, Ben,” I murmur my voice so muted that I’m not sure he can hear me, which works out perfectly, because I’m pretty sure I don’t want him to hear me.
“The words?” he prompts when I don’t say anything else.
Just my luck to get a man who has perfect hearing.
“Yeah, I’ve had those words thrown at me my whole life. It’s never bothered me that much. Words are just words. It’s you who chooses if you will give them power or not. I’ve learned that lesson through the years.”
“So, what was different this time? Because you had to know that those words are so far from the real Junie that it’s unreal.”
“I guess it brought back those old memories. It embarrassed me, and I just wanted to cover it up and forget it existed.”
“Aw, Junie,” he murmurs, and I hate that I can hear the compassion in his voice. I don’t want him to feel sorry for me.
