“Hey,” he greeted, placing his keys on the small table near the door that was the nominated dumping ground. A brief caress of his gaze over my naked torso sent a flush of heat snaking over my skin. Appreciation flickered over his expression, his smile turning lazy despite the alertness in his eyes.
I grinned, eating up the distance between us. “Hey, you made good time.”
“If I’d known you were showering, I would have got here faster.”
Stopping in front of him, I laughed and reached out for him. He mirrored my action and we pressed against each other, our kiss sweet and slow.
When he pulled away, his gaze turned assessing. “You okay?”
I sighed. Just the thought of Axle threatened to destroy my good mood and my plan to suck Sutton off. “Yeah, other than wanting to throw down and call the company out.”
Feeling myself getting more worked up, I exhaled. My cock was soft, my head remained fuzzy, and I wanted to bury my head in the sand about as much as I wanted to fight Axle with everything I had.
A light touch drew my attention. “Couch or bed?”
This man knew me inside out. “Bed would be good.”
“Your painkillers still in your bag?”
“Yeah.”
“I’ll get water, you get those, and I’ll meet you in your room.” A soft kiss followed his words before he made his way to the cupboard to collect a glass.
I stood there for a beat, watching him.
In my home, Sutton was utterly comfortable. Not for the first time, I wondered how I could have missed how attractive he was. Well, that wasn’t completely accurate. The man was good-looking, and I’d always known that. It was more why I hadn’t been attracted to him, or at least open to the possibility.
I huffed out a laugh, knowing full well that before the car accident, I’d never seriously considered my sexuality as being anything other than straight. That kiss in college had been my version of a favor for a friend. I had been curious, though. But when I hadn’t popped a boner, I’d put a cross in the box next to straight and had accepted that as gospel.
Oh how wrong I had been.
Realizing I was still staring at Sutton, I grinned when he glanced my way. Me standing there earned me a quirked brow from the man I ogled. I shook my head at his unasked question and turned to get my meds from my bag I’d dumped in my closet.
Once my tablets were swallowed with ice-cold water, I lay on my mattress and exhaled. “Man, I missed my bed.” I’d planned to sit up so we could talk, but the comfort called to me.
On top of the covers, my head on the pillow, I smiled, and when Sutton lay next to me, I sighed, content. He moved onto his side, his arm circling my waist, and I turned into him.
“You need to off-load?”
My smirk was immediate, and I jerked my hips against his. “Hell yeah.”
He laughed. “That too, but I meant talk about your sponsorship.”
Annoyance quickly flared to life in my chest. “Greg mentioned something about me being in breach of contract. Not quite a morals clause, since I’m sure that would break all kinds of discrimination laws, but more to do with the story of us being engaged. You know, the whole focus on being single and a babe magnet.”
Sutton’s wince was minute, but I still caught it.
“And don’t even apologize. You did point out before I signed the contract how ridiculous the clause was. And yeah, you said fiancé, but we both went with it and decided on this fake relationship.”
Muscles stiffened under my hands, and I wanted to nut punch myself.
“Not that this is fake now….” My gaze roamed his face, darting between his eyes, and unexpected nerves rippled inside me. Tongue-tied, something that had never happened to me before, I tried a couple of times to get my words out without sounding like a dickhead. “I… I know we said… I mean…”
Sutton took pity on me.
Pressing his lips against mine for nowhere near long enough, he tasted my mouth before angling away. “We said all in, right?”
Kiss drunk, I nodded, despite the contact being brief. This was what he did to me, though. One second my emotions were in knots, spiraling out of control and whipping me into a frenzy, and in the next, his comfort provided a calm I’d never experienced before.
