Holy. Shit.
And then he gave a little squeeze.
She moaned.
“Don’t make that sound unless you want to be naked in the cold.”
“Then don’t touch me like that.”
He squeezed again. “Like that?”
“Morgan…”
“Yes, Sierra?”
“You’re making me crazy.”
“I owe you months of payback for every time you came prancing into the gym looking like a fucking goddess and making me hard behind the counter.”
“I do not prance, and you were hard?”
He took her hand and brought it over to feel how hard their conversation had made him. “Like that. Every single time.”
Sierra squeezed and stroked until he was the one doing the moaning. “Stop.”
She didn’t stop.
He grabbed her hand. “I don’t feel like walking around with wet britches all night.”
“Don’t start trouble you can’t finish.”
“Oh, I’ll finish it. As soon as we eat something, it’s on.”
She shivered.
And not from the cold.
“Why didn’t you say something about your… um… interest… sooner?”
“Because I wasn’t ready for what this might turn out to be. But I kept asking around about whether you were seeing anyone, and every time someone said not that they knew of, I was incredibly relieved. One time, I said to Terry, who works at the gym, ‘What’s her story?’ and he said, ‘Not really sure, but she’s hot as fuck, right?’ I almost punched his teeth out for talking about you that way.”
Sierra cracked the window because she needed a dose of cold air to cool her off before she combusted. Hearing that he’d been pursuing her before she was even aware of it made her whole system buzz with incendiary desire.
“What would you have done if you heard I was seeing someone?”
“I probably would’ve tried to mess it up.”
“You would not!”
“I might’ve…” He glanced over at her. “Tell me the truth. Am I coming on too strong or freaking you out?”
“Not at all. It’s kind of refreshing to hear how you really feel and not have to wade through a bunch of crap to get to the truth of the matter.”
“I think I suspected months ago that last night would go the way it did, and I needed to be ready, you know?”
She nodded. “You’ve had a lot to deal with.”
“Worst thing that’s ever happened to me, and that’s saying something when you consider the previous losses. This one really did me in. But even in the midst of it, I saw you. I wanted to know you. I couldn’t wait for you to stop by to check on me. And when you offered me a free massage…”
