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I don’t know how long it took Jesse to fall asleep, but it was a long while before I began to let go of the tension in my body. But even once I managed that, I still struggled to find sleep.
Because I was in bed with Jesse Hale, and he was wearing grey sweats, no shirt, and smelled divine.
I didn’t know how it was possible to feel so lucky and so unfortunate all at the same time.
Jesse
Sawyer was going to lose her mind the minute she woke up.
After all the worrying she did last night before climbing into bed with me, it didn’t take her long to let down her defenses.
Granted, it had only happened because she was sleeping, but I thought it was a good indicator of what she really wanted.
Right now, I was the happiest I’d been in a very long time. Because despite the fact that I’d promised Sawyer I wouldn’t touch her, it didn’t stop her from turning toward me at some point in the middle of the night and cuddling up close to me.
Now, it was early in the morning, and her body was plastered to mine.
I was on my back, and Sawyer was curled into my side. Her leg was draped over my thigh, her arm resting on my abdomen, and her cheek was pressed to my chest.
It was much like I envisioned we’d be after a round of phenomenal sex.
As disappointing as it was that we hadn’t had that experience with one another just yet, I couldn’t say I didn’t love absolutely everything about the way this felt.
Aside from the way she was curling into me, making me tell myself this was how much she needed me, it was the feel of her warm and soft body so close that had me exercising so much self-control. There was nothing I wanted more in this moment than to roll her to her back, strip her out of her clothes, and sink myself between her legs.
Or maybe I’d put my mouth there first so I could taste her before I brought her to the height of pleasure. There was little I wouldn’t do for the chance to see this woman squirming and panting while she was naked beneath me.
Having these thoughts about her was all just as I suspected it would be.
Ever since I saw her outside the Harper Security Ops building a few days ago, Sawyer was doing everything I knew she would do to me. She was pulling me under, and I didn’t think she had the slightest clue that she was doing it, either.
I was already completely lost to her, even if I thought I was doing a decent job of appearing indifferent.
A moment later, the feelings I had for her only grew deeper.
After letting out a soft moan, Sawyer began to move her body and stretch. Somewhere in the middle of that stretch—one that pushed the front of her body tighter to my side—she froze.
I couldn’t stop smiling.
Slowly, Sawyer tipped her chin up and had one eye closed as she peeked out of the other to look at my face. It took everything in me not to burst out laughing at the sight of her.
“Oh, God,” she whispered. Half a second later, Sawyer scrambled to sit upright and shifted away from me. “I’m so sorry, Jesse.”
“You were asleep. It wasn’t like you did it intentionally,” I reasoned, even though I thought it was telling that she’d wound up in that position. I had to put in a massive effort to ignore the feeling that moved through me at the sound of her voice in the morning saying my name.
“I should really just sleep on the couch. Or, better yet, you should just let me go to my mom’s,” she declared.
“You aren’t sleeping on the couch, Sawyer,” I advised. “As for your mom’s, I can’t let that happen unless you are prepared for me to join you there.”
“But what if… what if this happens again?” she worried.
There was a big part of me that wanted to admit the truth and tell her that I hoped it did. But considering how badly it was affecting her, I decided against it. Instead, I replied, “There are worse things that could happen to me. If it happens, it happens. It’s not the end of the world.”
Sawyer let out a frustrated sigh.
The last thing I wanted was to cause her any anxiety over something that brought me immense happiness, so I thought the best thing to do would be to distract her. Maybe if we didn’t dwell on this, she’d realize that it wasn’t a big deal.
“Do you drink coffee?” I asked.
