All Over You, page 22
“Hey, up here,” she said wryly, clicking his fingers to get his attention. “I’m making a heartfelt declaration.”
“You know what would really help with that?” he said, reaching for his belt buckle.
“What?”
“If we were both naked. I think you might get your message across much more clearly then,” he said, dragging his T-shirt over his head.
“You think so?” she said, her eyes dropping to his straining erection as he stepped out of his jeans.
“I know so,” he said.
Pulling her into his arms again, he kissed her deeply and walked her toward the bed. Like a good girl, she flopped backward when she felt the mattress hit the back of her knees, and he fell on top of her. He wanted everything at once and didn’t know where to start, so he took a bit of everything — he nibbled her ear and plucked at her breasts, and kneed her thighs apart and sucked her nipples and slid a hand between her legs and groaned at how wet and ready she was.
“Grace, I love you,” he whispered in her ear as he slid inside her.
“I love you, too,” she whispered back, then neither of them spoke except to urge the other on or to issue a panting instruction.
“Harder.”
“Now.”
“Yesssss.”
“Please.”
Mac’s climax rocketed through him at the exact moment that he felt Grace’s body tighten around his. He rode the last waves home, relishing the rightness, the glory of it.
Afterward, he lay pressed against her, breathing in her scent and running her silky hair through his fingers.
“I missed you,” he said.
“I thought you might have had more than enough of me,” she said.
“No.”
“I pushed you pretty far,” she said.
“Yeah. But I’m a stubborn guy.”
“Thank you for being stubborn.”
After they’d made love for the second time, he took her through to the largest of the spare bedrooms and showed her what he’d been working on for the bulk of the day. He’d cleared the room out and started painting the walls a soft, warm yellow. If he hadn’t been called into the studio, he would have finished the first coat. He grunted with amusement as he belatedly realized that Claudia’s pointless meeting might have had a point after all — to give Grace the opportunity to break into his house.
“I thought you’d prefer this room for your study because the view is better and it’s bigger, but it’s your choice,” he said.
The cherrywood desk he’d been coveting for her was in one corner covered with a drop cloth, but he whisked it off to show her.
She spread her hands flat on the desk and turned to him with wide, tear-filled eyes.
“Mac. You did this for me after I slapped you? After I pushed you away so many times?”
“What can I say? I’m a glutton for punishment,” he said. She smiled ruefully and he pulled her close. “And I know a good thing when I’m onto it. So, will you?”
“What?”
“Move in?”
“I might be stupid, but I know when I’m onto a good thing, too,” she said.
“Is that a yes?”
“Yes, that’s a yes.”
Mac felt a surge of emotion as he looked into her eyes and saw happiness and love and not a trace of doubt.
Finally, they were dreaming the same dream.
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ALL OVER YOU
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