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“Yes,” he says rigidly.
“And the cut on your brow?”
“Some people are harder to fire than others.” His body tenses again, and I know that if I continue to question him, he’ll go right back to the state of mind he was in.
But I am curious. Did he fire someone and they didn’t want to go? Did they attack him?
I suppose his job must be extremely stressful, but I can’t help the niggling in the back of my mind that there’s so much more to it than that.
However, it doesn’t matter what my gut says when my heart is screaming at me to hold on to him tighter. And wrapping my arms around his waist, that’s exactly what I do.
13
EMILY
“Shit,” I grumble when we reach my street. “My dad’s home.”
“You could come with me to my house instead,” Noah offers.
“Your place.” I turn to him and smile, wondering just what kind of house a man like Noah would have. An old brownstone like mine? Or maybe a modern condo overlooking the city.
“Would you like to come?” he whispers near my ear, and something about the way he asks it has me hearing a double entendre in his words. “I want to see what you look like in my bed.”
Would I like to cometohis place? Or would I like to comeathis place.
The answer to both is yes. But I shake my head instead. “I can’t tonight. We already had a fight earlier. If I leave without telling him where I’m going, he’s going to have a heart attack.”
“Does he have a bad heart?”
I laugh. “No, but I’ll give him one.” Lifting myself to my toes, I press my lips to his.
His arms wrap around my waist and he tugs me into him, deepening our kiss, his tongue sliding over mine. Rainwater pours over my heated skin, and I imagine it’s coming off me in swirls of steam.
Pulling from him, I giggle. “Something told me sex with you wouldn’t be exactly romantic.”
“You didn’t think it was romantic?” he teases.
“Fucked in an alley against on a wooden pallet? No,” I say. “But it was perfect.”
He leans in, walking us back a few steps, closer to the nearest building, and captures my lips. Then he trails gentle nips along my jawline to my neck. “I want to be inside you again,” he groans. “To fuck you in every way a man can fuck a woman.”
I swallow through the sudden dryness in my mouth. “Oh?”
“Will you let me fuck you again, Emily?”
Dear Lord, my body tightens from the mere question on his lips. “Yes. But not tonight.” I push him away because if I don’t, I will most certainly let him fuck me again tonight. Right here, right now, even. “I have to go inside.”
“I’ll see you tomorrow at seven,” he calls out before I cross the street. “Our date is still on. Wear those pajamas. I like you in them.”
“What?” I glance down at my completely unattractive set. “I can’t wear this to dinner.”
“You can when youarethe dinner.” He grins and I swear there’s a glint off his teeth, like a hungry wolf that’s just spotted a delicious little lamb.
I want to whimper. Want to stand here and revel in the idea that he’s going to eat me like a wild beast. But sadly, I can’t.
“Tomorrow,” I say, feeling the anticipation already building.
Noah watches me protectively as I cross the street. I wave at him one last time when I reach my front door and then step inside.
