Page 63 of Up All Night
“You don’t have to say anything.” Sean stretched to give me a soft kiss on the mouth. “And you can wait until your landlord sells before deciding whether you want to stay here with me. Like getting the people to speak at the meeting, I’m not trying to force your hand. I only want to give you options.”
“This is a pretty good option.” I looked around the space again.A home.Not a pre-furnished apartment or room to rent. He’d made me a home. I kicked off my dress loafers and placed my suit jacket on one of the dining chairs. “I think I’ll take you up on it, but I better inspect that bed to be sure.”
“You should.” Sean enthusiastically tugged me toward the narrow stairs. I was a big dude, but luckily, the stairs were solid and didn’t creak. I did, however, have to bend to stand in the loft, but the bed beckoned invitingly. It was a huge king-size mattress on a low platform, piled high with puffy comforters more suitable for winter nights.Home.
I stretched out to save my back and because I no longer trusted my knees to hold me.
“Well?” Sean asked, hovering near the bed.
“Nice firm mattress. No idea how you managed to get it up those stairs, but this is quality.”
“Rowan and Jonas probably won’t speak to me for a week.” Sean grinned as I pulled him down to the mattress. “And I owe John a lot of hours of driving lessons, but we managed. Barely.”
“I approve. It’s cozy.” I snuggled against Sean, breathing deeply. He smelled like minty shampoo and bracing shaving cream and Sean himself, and I couldn’t get enough of his unique scent and warm body.
Sean stretched against me, ass rubbing against my groin, leg hooking me even closer. He exhaled along with me, almost like he was ready for a nap, but the way he was wiggling said otherwise.
“What would you like?” I asked indulgently.
“Make love to me?” Smiling, Sean rolled so we were face to face.
“Huh.” I made a surprised noise. “You haven’t called it that before.”
“Yeah, but we’ve done it.” Sean held my gaze, memories of the past few weeks in his eyes.
“I suppose we have.” I nodded slowly. “And now that we have a giant-ass bed in here, we should break it in.”
“We should.” He grinned at me. “But you’re always asking what I want, making sure my bucket list is met. What’s on your list?”
“Well, you are the newbie. And I’m still not convinced you wouldn’t be better off experimenting?—”
Sean cut me off with a deft move to flip me to my back. “I don’t need to experiment to know you’re it for me. It’s like having amazing prime rib. I don’t need to rack up a stack of restaurant tabs simply to know a good thing when I find it. And this is a good thing.”
“It is.” I had to agree.
“So, I’ll ask again.” He pinned my arms loosely above my head and smirked down at me. “What would you like?”
I groaned. “What am I going to do with you?”
“Hopefully, it involves your?—”
I stretched to silence him with a kiss, letting go when he started to laugh.
“Heart. I was gonna say heart.”
“Uh-huh.” I kissed him until he loosened his hold on my arms and started moving more purposefully against me. “And I’m not sure I have a list. Or a favorite thing. Each time with you is better than the last. Love your mouth. Love grinding like this. Love all of it.”
Love you.I didn’t say it, of course, but I let myself think it for the first time. Merely letting the words trot through my head made my pulse speed up and my palms sweat. But someday. Someday, I might say them aloud.
Sean continued to gaze expectantly down at me, apparently not letting me off the hook.
“You coming pretty much untouched the other night? That was damn hot. Tell me you stashed some lube and condoms up here?”
“You know it.” He pulled a laughably large bottle of lube out from behind a stack of books and a lamp. “And do we really need condoms?”
I worried the inside of my cheek with my tongue. “I’ve never skipped the rubber. Even when high or drunk. Always played it safe and got tested on the regular too.”
“Okay.” Sean shrugged and reached toward his hiding spot again, but I stopped him.