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He gave me that tender smile again and it about made me swoon. “Right.”
My heart started beating faster. “Okay then.”
“Okay.”
I couldn’t seem to make my legs work. “So...”
“Bits,” Gage said with a laugh.
“Yeah?”
“Get in the bed already.”
I lunged for the covers, yanking them back with more force than necessary and dove into the bed. It wasn’t until I had the sheet and comforter pulled up and tucked tightly beneath my chin that I found the nerve to look back at Gage. Sure enough, he was chuckling and shaking his head at my ridiculousness.
“Get comfortable. I’m gonna lock everything up. Be back in a few.”
I had a feeling that a man as diligent and protective as Gage had already locked everything up for the night, especially when he had me and his family all under one roof, so I knew what this was. This was him going out of his way—a-freaking-gain—to make me comfortable. To give me the few minutes I might need to get my bearings. Looking out for me. Like he always did.
As he did his walk-through one last time, I snuggled deeper into the mattress. The only word I could use to describe Gage’s bed washeaven. The mattress felt like cuddling into a cloud. I didn’t know what the hell the sheets were made of, but they felt almost silky without the annoyance of slipping and sliding all around that came with actual silk sheets. The pillows were down and fluffy as hell, and I was pretty sure his bed had ruined me for all other beds for the rest of my life. My own bed sure didn’t live up to this kind of luxury, and I knew when the time came for me to go back to it, I was going to mourn the bazillion thread count sheets and heavenly mattress. Along with several other things, I was sure.
The bedroom door opened, and Gage walked in just as I started making snow angels—well, sheet angels, more accurately—in the center of the bed.
He stopped a few feet inside the bedroom, looking at me like I’d lost my damn mind. “What in the world are you doing?”
I flung my arms and legs out a couple more times for the fun of it. “These sheets areawesome. What are they made of, magic?”
“Bamboo,” he answered, humor laced through his words before he flipped off the bedroom light. “Glad you approve.”
“I more than approve,” I said, wriggling around a little more as the outline of his large, powerful body in the moonlight cut through the room, coming closer. “I think I might just live in this bed the rest of my life. Jase will give me shit for a while, but eventually he’ll come on board with me working remotely. The man can’t say no to me.”
His deep, rumbly chuckle filled the dark room, making my belly flutter as the covers on his side of the bed pulled back and the mattress dipped under his weight. All of a sudden things got very real when Gage climbed in beside me. My heartrate kicked into the danger zone and my body was very aware of him in every way. We weren’t touching. A good few inches of space were between the two of us, but I could have sworn I could still feel his heat seeping into the covers and traveling my way, wrapping around me like a heated blanket.
“Goodnight, Wynn,” he said softly, his voice barely more than a whisper in the dark.
“Goodnight, Gage.”
As silence enveloped us, the little voice inside my head chimed in, insisting I scooch those last few inches and press up against him.
I did my best to snuff her out, rolling to my side so I faced the window with my back to the man who was making me feel tingly all over. The last thought I remembered having was there was no chance I was getting any sleep tonight, not with Gage so close. But the comfort of his bed and the security that came with being near my fake fiancé won out, and I passed out in less than a handful of minutes.
ChapterNineteen
WYNN
My breath snaggedin my lungs as fire spread through my entire body. My core clenched around nothing, desperate to be filled. My breasts felt heavy. My skin tingled. I was so primed it felt like electricity was about to shoot from the tips of my fingers and toes.
Every single night for weeks, the dream of Gage made my needy body ache. But this was the worst one yet. The ache had never been this intense, this persistent. It drove through me, sending a flood of arousal to my center, drenching my panties.
I blinked into consciousness, my fuzzy surroundings slowly coming into focus in the darkness. I didn’t recognize anything at first. It took a few moments for my brain to engage and remember where I was. And more specifically, who I was with.
That pulsing throb echoed through my body again, which didn’t make sense. Usually when I woke up, the dream ended. My body might have still felt the tremors, but they usually ended after a few seconds.
I tried to turn over but was stopped by Gage’s long, heavy arm draped over my waist. The hand cupping my breast squeezed tighter, his palm abrading my diamond-hard nipple beneath the barely-there fabric of my camisole.
My lips parted on a stuttered inhale when he moved in his sleep, letting out a raspy groan as he drove his hips against me, his very large and veryharderection digging into my ass and probing between my thighs from behind.
Dear lord, the man wasbig. Even trapped beneath the layers of his sleep pants and underwear I could feel it well enough to know it was fact.
