Page 37 of Slapshot Summer
He reached over, hoisted her up, and pulled her into his lap so her legs dangled over one side, ignoring her amused squeaks of protest.He placed one hand on her back and tucked the other under her top, resting it on her stomach and strumming her smooth skin with his thumb.
“We do, but not today.In fact, let’s put off any decisions until the end of the week and just enjoy vacation time.What do you think?”
She looped her arms around his neck.“I can go for that.”
A little burst of joy warmed his chest.For the rest of this week, they would be a couple who enjoyed one another, explored one another, gave and received pleasure from one another.And he started them off when he nuzzled her neck, pulling in her sweet scent as he laid tender kisses along her shoulder.
“I want you again, Lexi,” he murmured against her throat.
She giggled.“I want you too, Josh, but I think I’m hungry now.”
Why that pleased him, he couldn’t say.Maybe unburdening herself with him had restored her appetite.He loved that he could carry that load for her.“Then let’s get my baby something to eat.”My baby?What the hell was going on with him?
“Because I need to keep up my strength?”she teased.
“Exactly.”The real reason, though, had less to do with her being fueled up for what he had planned between the sheets later and more about her being back in a happy place.Seeing a genuine smile light up her face again broughthimbliss.
Oh Christ!
No denying it.He was falling.Fast and hard.
ThoughJoshwasmorethan willing to spend the rest of the day and night eating room service so they could roll around in bed naked, Lexi wanted to go to the restaurant for dinner and maybe follow that with dancing afterward.Who was he to deny her?
When they walked into the restaurant hand in hand, he scanned the tables, dismayed when his eyes landed on Neil Afton—with an entirelydifferentwoman.He hadn’t given the guy another thought until now, and all of him tensed.Neil hadn’t spotted them, and Josh shuffled to the side, pulling Lexi with him so she would be out of Neil’s line of sight—and vice versa.Josh didnotwant to put them in a position where they had to acknowledge the asshole, let alone carry on a conversation with him.What if the guy invited himself and hisdateto join them for dinner?
At least Josh wouldn’t be lying to him—he and Lexiweretogether, if only for the rest of the week.
None of it mattered because Neil and the woman turned and walked away from the restaurant, leaving Josh to puff out a relieved exhale.
The hostess sat them in a dark, cozy corner, where they sat side by side.Josh inched his fingers under the hem of Lexi’s skirt.
“Stop,” she giggled.
“Stop what?I’m not doing anything.”
“Your hand is under my dress, and it’s working its way up.”
I need to touch you.It had been a few hours since they’d last made love, and his body was once again a live wire, crackling with need for her.He had it bad.Was it because he knew he had a finite amount of time with her?Did that pump up his desire?Except he couldn’t remember when desire had ever ruled him so totally before.Lexi filled his every thought, drove his every action.In a short amount of time, she had become an addiction, an obsession.The emotions were foreign but so damn real.And while he knew he was making a pest of himself, she didn’t seem to mind.Seemed to welcome his pawing and fawning.Did she feel the same way he did?
“I promise I’ll keep it PG.No higher than mid-thigh.”He slid his hand to the middle of her thigh, which was far enough to brush his pinkie over her lacy panties.They were damp, and his cock immediately hardened to full mast.He hadn’t watched her get dressed—they’d done that in their separate rooms—and now he was dying to see what she had on under there.
“That’s too high,” she hissed.“You’re practically …there.”
“Where?”His voice was pure innocence as he took another swipe over the lace.Thong.Maybe.I hope.He pictured her beautiful backside in the imaginary thong, which only magnified the growing problem in his pants.
“At my hoohah,” she gritted out between clenched teeth.
He choked back a laugh.“Yourwhat?”
“My hoo.Hah.”
Unable to hold back, he leaned in and kissed her.You’re adorable.Maybe he was into adorable after all.Reluctantly, he moved his hand to her knee.“Okay.No getting close to the hoohah.We’ll save that for later.”
She shoved him playfully.“You’re ridiculous.”
God, he hadn’t had this much fun with a woman in … ever.Nor had he ever felt like the other half of a couple before, but he liked it.A lot.
After dinner, Lexi begged him to dance, so they walked to a pop-up club called the Warehouse he’d overheard Matt the bartender mention the night before.Had it only been last night?
