Total pages in book: 35
Estimated words: 33020 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 165(@200wpm)___ 132(@250wpm)___ 110(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 33020 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 165(@200wpm)___ 132(@250wpm)___ 110(@300wpm)
“You were a cute baby,” Nora said, looking up.
“Ah, that he was, and a little terror as well. He never liked to sleep much throughout the night, and I swear, he used to hear the house settling, and the merest hint of a creak, and he was up.”
He smiled as Nora’s gaze seemed to warm. His woman looked good here, in this house.
For the next couple of hours, they enjoyed some lunch, some tea and coffee, along with the telling of memories. Lawson and Esther loved to retell his most embarrassing moments. By late afternoon, he saw Esther was getting tired, and the two retired for a few hours, leaving him alone with Nora.
“Well?” Gabriel asked.
“I love them. Does she hate me?”
“No, she doesn’t hate you. She didn’t know if you were a gold-digger or not.”
She winced. “Seriously?”
“Esther is blunt. It is one of the things Lawson loved about her, what my grandfather admired in her as well, and of course my grandmother also loved her. She was always refreshing.”
“She’s wonderful. They’re wonderful.”
Gabriel held out his hand. “Would you like the full tour?” he asked.
“Yeah, I’d love to. Am I allowed to see all of your home?”
“Baby, you can see whatever you like.” She chuckled and he pulled her close, putting his hands across her shoulders.
He kissed the top of her head, and took her from room to room, telling her about a memory in each room. By the time they got upstairs, Gabriel was desperate to be alone with her. He took her straight to his room.
Stepping inside, she wrinkled her nose. “It would have been cool to see your childhood room,” she said.
“This is it,” he said. “The only difference is, when I got older, I redecorated.”
“Tell me what teenage Gabriel was like?”
He shrugged. “Hardworking. Desperate to prove to my grandfather I was nothing like my father. The usual.”
“Did you have posters? A naked woman calendar on the wall?”
Gabriel laughed. “No, I didn’t.”
“Come on, that would have been cute.”
“Yeah, I’m sure. What did you have?”
“Puppies and dogs. I loved them. We could never get a dog as my mom was allergic, so they were always getting me teddy bears in the shape of dogs, notebooks, diaries, calendars. You name it.”
“We never had a dog,” Gabriel said. “We never had time for it. Granddad wanted to get me one, but I told him no, my studies were more important.”
He reached out, taking Nora’s hand, and pulling her in close. “You know, I’ve never had a woman here.”
“Never?”
“No. Granddad had rules, and bringing a woman back here meant something.”
“It did?” she asked.
“Yeah.”
“What did it mean?”
Gabriel stared into her eyes, closing the small distance between them, and he stroked her cheek. “It meant she was important. It meant you had thought about her and decided that no matter what, you couldn’t live without her.”
“Gabriel?”
“I don’t want to live without you.” And that was all he said, before he took possession of her lips.
She let out a little moan, and he swallowed it down. Her whimper was so cute, so sweet.
Tracing his tongue across her lips, he plunged inside and met her tongue, deepening the kiss. At the same time he was kissing her, he began to work on the buttons of her dress. She had insisted on wearing something formal. The dress looked stunning on her, curving to her body in all the right places, but now he wanted her naked.
She would be the first woman he had ever brought back to his bedroom.
I sound like a fucking adolescent.
What he wanted to do to Nora was anything but. He felt so hungry and desperate for her.
The moment he had enough of her buttons open, he started to slide the dress off her body. He couldn’t help but groan as it fell to the floor. Wrapping an arm around her waist, he carried her straight toward his bed, sliding her down on top, and then pulling away. He stopped touching her only long enough to remove his shirt, and then reached behind her, flicking open the catch of her bra.
Her full breasts sprung forward, and he couldn’t help but cup them, running his thumb across the peaks, and then he needed to taste them. Taking the first full nipple into his mouth, he sucked, going gently at first, allowing her to become accustomed to feel of his lips on her tit, but then he started to tighten, using his teeth. Her head fell back and a moan escaped her.
Trailing his tongue across the valley of her breasts, he proceeded to take the second nipple, using his teeth, and felt her legs press together. He wanted to send her mindless with the pleasure. He wanted her to beg for more. Letting go of her tits, he began to kiss down her body.
“Gabriel,” she said his name on a moan.