Total pages in book: 136
Estimated words: 135847 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 679(@200wpm)___ 543(@250wpm)___ 453(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 135847 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 679(@200wpm)___ 543(@250wpm)___ 453(@300wpm)
And all over was all over.
Fuck. He’d never come that hard or that much.
Jesus.
Brilliant.
He kept her hand under his as they milked him dry, then he brought it to his lips and kissed the back of it.
“I could have finished you off with my mouth,” she whispered.
Nice to know where she stood on that.
However.
“I’ll let you have that another time.”
She snuggled into him. “Okay.”
He gave them space to revel in their first time sleeping beside each other, waking and touching and sharing intimacy, Elsa draped down his side, her head on his shoulder, Hale holding their hands at his chest, the city lights twinkling through the windows.
And he gave himself that time to feel her close, smell her hair, enjoy the aftereffects of what she just gave him.
More importantly, to feel not alone for once. To have someone right there who he cared about.
Then he let her go to pull his joggers over his dick before he yanked her out of bed.
She emitted a surprised cry that made him smile as he led them to his bathroom.
“You’re not going to take the world by storm lazing in bed after sucking your man’s cock,” he mock-admonished.
He let her go after he switched on the lights in the bathroom. She blinked, as did he, but got used to it and immediately started glaring up at him.
She might be glaring at him, but he had Cute Elsa now. Wearing a pale pink silk nightie that had spaghetti straps and delicate cream lace at the top, her hair back in a ponytail, her face clean of makeup, residual sleep and a recent orgasm making her eyes lazy, her lips pinker than normal and swollen from sucking him off.
He bent in, gave those lips a closed-mouth kiss, then moved to grab a washcloth to clean his cum off his stomach.
Last night, when he’d carried her bag up, she’d trailed him and put her cosmetics bags by the basin he didn’t use. Now she dug through one to get her toothpaste and toothbrush.
He closed the door on the toilet, did his business, came out, washed his hands, splashed water on his face, wiped it off then went to her.
He got behind her where she was brushing her teeth, kissed her shoulder and said, “I’ll go make coffee.”
She spit quickly and replied, “You don’t have to get up with me, Hale. It’s early. You can go back to bed.”
“Yeah. And I can make you coffee. Which is what I’m gonna do. Take a shower, help yourself to whatever you need. Coffee will be ready when you are.”
Before she could say anything else, he left the bathroom.
“Travel or regular mug?” he asked as she walked down the stairs wearing all black, except the white Nikes with leopard print swoops on her feet.
She was carrying her bag.
He frowned at the bag.
“I’m sorry, honey, but travel,” she answered. “Our extracurriculars have put me off schedule so I need to scoot.”
“Leave the bag,” he ordered.
“What?” she asked as she made the kitchen.
“Leave the bag. I’m here the rest of the week. And I’m cooking for you tonight.”
She looked at him under her lashes. “Are you now?”
“Yup.”
She laughed silently, her shoulders shaking with it.
But she also dropped her bag.
He prepared her coffee then started to wrap the bagel he made for her in a paper towel.
“You made me a bagel too?”
“Sesame. Medium whipped cream cheese. Hope that’s cool.”
“That’s my favorite.”
“I guessed right then.”
She was watching him with a funny look on her face when he came around the island and gave her the mug and bagel.
He then cupped her jaw and ran his thumb along her cheekbone.
“You all right?” he asked quietly.
“I’m great,” she answered.
“I mean after what you learned last night.
As answer to that, she put her hands out to her sides and did a faceplant in his chest.
Yeah. He could have guessed that answer.
He wrapped both arms around her shoulders.
“The orgasm helped,” she told his chest.
He smiled. “I’m glad.”
She tipped her head back to look at him. “Alas, I think there’s no cure to my family drama but time.”
“Alas,” he teased.
She rolled her eyes.
That was when Hale kissed her properly for the first time that morning.
When he was finished, she breathed, “Okay, that helped too.”
“Go forth. Take the world by storm.”
“Aye, aye, bossman.”
They’d broken the seal, so she’d soon learn what kind of boss he was.
He just hoped she was into it.
She got up on her toes to kiss his jaw, he liked the feel of that, both her lips and the fact she had to get up on her toes to do it. Then he walked her to the elevators and tagged the button for her.
“Time tonight?” she asked.
“What time’s good for you?”
“If I’m staying here again, I have to go back to my place to get some more things. So, maybe six thirty, seven?”