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I set my dish in the sink and did as he said, patting Dove and Duke’s heads as I went. Once at the top, Davis held a hand out to me. Placing my small palm inside his massive one, I followed him down the hall, away from his room.
There, in the guest bathroom, was a massive soaking tub, big enough for two, and the water was running, steam rising from the clear water.
“My bathroom has a massive shower, with all the bells and whistles, but this tub…” He blushed, rubbing his neck. “I thought, if you wanted, we could, or you—”
Standing on my tiptoes, I pressed a kiss to his lips and smiled.
“Take a bath with me.”
So, he did. Stripping out of his clothes and helping me with mine, we settled into the hot water. Once he was seated behind me, he pulled me to his chest and rested his chin on top of my head.
The rain continued pouring outside, and the peaceful quiet of the room overwhelmed me.
Davis didn’t speak. Every now and then I hoped he’d open up, maybe share something about himself, but he never did. He liked to ask me questions: about my childhood, where I grew up, how New York was, if I liked their pizza better than what I had in the Pacific Northwest.
Then, it seemed, he’d had enough talking, as his hands roamed over my body, up and over my breasts, leisurely and slow, until he rested his grip around my neck ever so gently.
In my ear he rasped, “Have you ever been held by your neck while fucking?”
God, some of his questions came out of nowhere, and my whole body would light up like a torch every time. I merely shook my head.
“The kinkiest things I’ve done have been with you.”
He pulled me back against his chest. “So, the other two—” He seemed to hesitate to ask but then forged ahead. “Were they serious?”
“Sort of? I lost my virginity to someone in one of my classes my freshman year of college. We went out for drinks, and made a plan to just make it happen for each other. We watched a few videos to help us get things going.”
He rumbled something, but his grip tightened on me, and I hated how much I loved it.
“Second guy was the year after. He was my boyfriend for about a year. We had sex, often—but it was just always the same, in the same positions, in the dark. Nothing very exciting.”
“The things I ask of you…are they too much?”
I laughed, and his hold on me loosened. Immediately I reached up and gripped his hand, holding it in place. “Don’t you dare stop. I love everything and anything you want. Just do it. I trust you.”
“I can think of some dirty things,” he grumbled, jutting his hips forward the slightest bit.
I hummed in response.
“But, for now, I just want to hold you.”
Feeling my heart pinch tight, I rested against him. I felt his hand drift down to my hand, and he threaded his fingers through mine.
While the rain fell hard, in heavy beats against the earth, I fell for Davis in ways I’d never recover from. I’d tie this feeling to the crushed one I had carried for so many years, and I’d make a solid chain, tie it around my neck, and drown.
24
RAE
“Mom,I’m fine, I promise. Davis is teaching me all about his farm and business,” I rattled off in between bites of cobbler.
My mom made a sound similar to when she used to get exasperated with me as a kid. “I just want to be sure you’re okay. You can tell me if…if something has happened and he—”
“Mom.” I squeezed my eyes shut in mortification. “I like him.”
Her silence was louder than the dogs barking outside. Davis had run out when one of his cameras picked up a possible cougar sighting. He told me to stay put, and I had zero qualms about doing exactly that.
“You like him, as in…” My mother trailed off.
