She picked up her phone and sat next to me, then read the text and shrugged. “As far as I know I’m not. As far as I know, I still have one once I return from matleave.”
“What happens if you don’t have ajob?”
She placed her phone back on the coffee table. “I will, so let’s not talk about hypotheticals. Especially not when our daughter is sleeping.” She shifted her leg over mine and straddled me. “Especially when I just want to dothis…”
She planted a kiss on my neck, then nipped the skin there. Instantly my cock grew interested, forgetting how Holly’s soft heat was off limits for a few weeks while her bodyrecuperated.
I grabbed her hips, itching to rock her body againstmine.
And the award for Best Restraint While Incredibly Horny wentto…
All right—I didn’t exactly win it. I might have accidentally rocked against her the tiniestbit.
Honestly, that was just a tinybit.
Her mouth continued its journey up my neck to my jaw. She nibbled the skin there too. A groan escaped my lips—a groan that was part lust, part exasperation at her teasing. Teasing when she knew that was as far as we couldgo.
As if guided by my groan, her mouth found my mouth, and her teeth gently tugged at my lowerlip.
Eager to welcome her in, my lipsparted.
Imagine you were stranded in the desert—and all you could do was fantasize about the tall glass of water you would finally drink once you were found.Ifyou werefound.
Kissing Holly was nothing like that. It was like being found, having the tall, cool glass of delicious tasting water…then falling into a lagoon—complete with waterfall—anddrowning.
Drowning in the best possibleway.
Our tongues slid against one another, reacquainting themselves…as if Holly and I hadn’t kissed for several days instead of severalhours.
By the time our lips finally parted, our breaths were ragged. I shifted my head, my breath brushing the shell of her ear. Every part of me was alive with awareness. Every part of me—including the depths of mysoul.
“I love you,” I murmured. Even though I had no idea of her feelings toward me, saying it feltright.
She jerked back, as if she had been stung, and stared at me through wide green eyes. “What did you say?” Her accent was thicker than normal. Thicker andsexier.
The corner of my mouth tugged into a smirk—instant defense mode. “You heardme.”
“I did. But I wanted to double-check, in case Imisunderstood.”
“Fair enough.” I cupped my hand against her cheek. “Holly, I love you. Have for a while now. I was just too much of an idiot to tellyou.”
She still stared at me,stunned.
Who here was expecting that reaction from her? For now, how about we pretend it didn’t bother me—that it didn’t feel like I had just laid myself bare? “The real question is, how do you feel aboutme?”
That was as far as I got. Holly’s mouth was on mine again, kissing me, telling me through actions, not words, how she felt about me. The kiss was everything. Tender. Demanding. Sweet.Hungry.
Now if only Lily hadn’t picked that moment to decide nap time was over. Through the baby monitor on the coffee table, she let out a little whimper. Before we could respond, it was followed by a full-out, her-lungs-were-one-hundred-percent-into-thiswail.
With a sigh, Holly gave me a quick kiss and pushed herself off my lap. “Don’t goanywhere.”
I didn’t have a chance to tell her I’d get the little kiss-blocker. She danced out of my reach and headed for Lily’sroom.
She returned to the couch a few minutes later with Lily in her arms and snuggled up against me. The little bundle with a light covering of red hair on her head peered up atus.
“So before you demanded to be part of this conversation,” Holly said to our daughter in a sweet, cooing voice, “your daddy was telling me he loves me.” She turned her beautiful emerald eyes on me. “And I was about to tell him I love him too. Have for a while now. But why wouldn’t I? He’s the sweetest, kindest man alive…who happens to look incredibly sexy in a hockey uniform.” She glanced back down at Lily. “But pretend you didn’t hear the last part.Okay?”
I laughed. “Good idea, or else you might have just scarred her for life.” I kissed Holly’s temple—which then became a slightly less tender kiss when she turned her head back to me and I captured her mouth with myown.
