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I scratched my beard stubble. “Soundssilly,uh?”
“Silly?” She shook her head, also shaking her short blond mane, standing straight on its ends. “No way. It’s like, totally sweet. Where are wegoing?”
My heart leapt. “I wanna take you to a fancy restaurant. Or to a concert. That would be kickass, you, me andGlobal Mayhemor some other badass band like that. Or to a club. I bet you likedancing.”
Her face was flushed with the reverse blood flow. “I do likedancing.”
“But it might be a while.” I sank my nails into my palms and forced myself to say it aloud. “I wanna take you, I do, but can’t right now. Is that gonna be a problemforyou?”
Her upside down gaze found my stare and held it for a few seconds that felt like eternity. I hated myself for my weakness, but if she and I had a prayer of working out, she had to know upfront where I stood in the long,crookedroad.
“We’ll go,” she said with a conviction that stunned me. “On a date. When you’re good and ready. And…” She grinned. “It’s going to begreat.”
I swear, when she smiled at me like that, I could doanything.
“Meanwhile…” I cleared the cobwebs from my throat. “I know these mountains really well. I could show you some of my favorite spots. Maybe we could watch the sunset, or go star hunting, which is the SEAL version of stargazing?”
“I love sunsets,” she said. “I’ve never done star hunting, butI’mgame.”
I was nothing if not determined. “How abouttonight?”
“Works for me.” She flipped over and, after re-knotting her silks into a hammock, sat upright in the sling-like configuration, a much safer—not to mention more comfortable-looking alternative to hanging upside down. “It’sadate.”
My heart felt as if it might explode from my chest. I had a date with Nina. I was pretty satisfied with myself. Then I remembered. “So, what was yourquestion?”
“Oh, yes, well…” Nina’s smile widened into a wicked grin. She flexed her shapely leg in my direction and brushed my chest with her pointed toes. “I was going to ask you if you’d like me to suckyourdick.”
Chapter12
Nina
Aiden’s eyes widened into dark, roiling pools and, when he didn’t speak, I cringed in my silk hammock. I’d shocked him. My face was already flushed from the exercise, my muscles were warm and pulsing from the effort, but Aiden’s silence flustered me in a way that reminded me I cared about him, about what he thought of me. I wondered if I’d movedtoofast.
“It doesn’t have to be now.” I spanned the awkward silence by babbling on. “It can be later. Next week. Next month. No hurry.Whenever.”
His eyes hadn’t gotten any smaller. “You wanna suckmycock?”
My face was on fire. “I thought it was…like…you know…adecentidea…”
He took a step and stood before me. He unbelted his jeans, dropped both pants and boxers down over his boots, and lifted the bottom of his T-shirt, exposing the six pack that etched his taught belly, his lean, muscular thighs, and his groin tomygaze.
“Baby,” he said in a hoarse voice. “If you wanna suck my cock, it’syours.”
My eyes peeled open and I must have gasped, because he looked down on me with an almost apologetic expression and I couldn’t close mymouth.
“Too big?” His gaze shifted between his erection andmyface.
“Yeah. Wow. Pretty big.” I’d never seen a cock that big. Well, except perhaps on the Internet. But in reallife?No.
I reached out and touched his hot, hard flesh, sliding my fingers over the long shaft, wondering if I was seeing, feeling right. “This is…I mean…your cock is…” What could I possibly say but the truth? “Impressive.”
“Is it a deal breaker?” he asked, forehead furrowed withconcern.
“A deal breaker?” Was he insane? I smirked up at him. “Aiden. You. Your cock? You’re like a giftfromGod.”
His lips turned up. “SoI’llfit?”
“Oh, yeah, you’ll fit. That’s why vaginas are flex-space, you know.” I wrapped my fingers around his shaft and planted a little kiss at the tip. “Your cock and I? We’re gonna get alonggreat.”