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“In what way?”
“All of them.”
I sucked in a breath, barely able to believe what I was hearing. It was too much—too much to hope for, too much for him to ask from me, too much to ignore.
“Just say yes.”
The first time he made that demand, it had been so fucking easy to give in. I’d been helpless to deny him anything.
This time, I had more steel in my spine. Except, just as I opened my mouth to protest, to sayno, Cal dropped his lips to mine.
As it turned out, I wasstillfucking helpless to deny him anything.
The kiss was earth-shattering in its simplicity, in the soft way he massaged my lips with his, applying gentle pressure, coaxing a happy sigh from me.
That tiny, breathy sound was answer enough for Cal, because he pulled away, dropped his forehead against mine, and said, “Come over this weekend.”
It was such a bad idea for an unbelievably long list of reasons, but my mouth formed the words and spoke them into existence before I could stop myself.
“How about you come to my place instead?”
If I was going to give my heart away, I was damn well going to do it on my own turf.
I was a thirty-three-year-oldman. There was absolutely no reason why my hands should be shaking with nerves over the thought of going to spend the night with a woman. Not to mention, Amara was a woman I’d already had in the most compromising of positions, a woman I desperately wanted to take everything from.
But despite all that, Amara wasn’t justanywoman.
Things between us were changing fast, and I could admit now that, while my initial impression of the girl she’d been at twenty-three may have been spot on, Amara had grown a lot in the five years since, and the twenty-eight-year-old standing before me was more impressive than I ever could’ve imagined.
When it came to her, I didn’t mind being wrong.
Especially not when she pulled the door open to her house the following weekend, clad in a lilac colored bikini with a sheer white cover-up tied around her waist and slung low on her hips. I was half hard from one drag of my eyes across all that exposed skin, and I couldn’t wait to follow the same path with my lips and hands.
Skye bounded into the house ahead of me, her entire backside wiggling with the force of her tail wags, her excitement over exploring a new place mirroring my excitement over seeing the woman in front of me.
“Hell of a way to greet a guy,” I said, backing her inside and wrapping my arms around her, holding her close so I could kiss her.
“This old thing?” she said when she shoved away. “I just had it lying around.”
“I’ll bet,” I said, dropping my bags—one of which held Skye’s food, enough for the entire weekend—and her dog bed onto the light wood floors in the entryway.
Skye continued to sniff around, and while I knew this used to be Chloe’s house, that Amara’s sister had built it specifically for herself with the idea of having a family of her own here one day, I’d never been inside. Following my pup’s lead, I took a moment to study the space.
The floors were wide, light oak planks, the walls painted a cream so bright it was nearly white. The kitchen had beadboard cabinets with matte black hardware, white marble counters with deep grey veining, and a floor-to-ceiling wine rack fully stocked with exotic bottles from all over the world—an impressive testament to Amara’s travels.
“You can wander if you want,” she said from behind me, and I turned to find her smirking at me. “Or…you can come down to the beach with me. Your choice.”
She sashayed past, her curvy hips swinging side to side hypnotically.
Yeah, there was no way I wasn’t following that ass down to the sand.
I’d arrived late enough that the sun was near setting, but it was one of those rare days where it didn’t cool off as the sky darkened, which meant Amara wasn’t inclined to cover up to stay warm. For that, I counted my blessings.
Besides, if she caught a chill, I’d happily warm her with my body.
Skye raced down ahead of us, making a beeline for the water, and I grinned sheepishly at Amara.
“I’ll hose her down before she goes back inside,” I promised.
