Page 154 of Plunge into Obsession

And if things went Gabriel’s way, he would be the only man I would ever see shirtless, the possessive bastard that he was.

Somehow, the idea didn’t seem like such a bad one.

He shot me a knowing smile when I looked up at his too-pretty face.

It had been a while since he got a haircut. Some of the strands were framing his face. Yet he didn’t look bad.

He looked…

Like mine.

And at that point, I didn’t think there could be a look he wouldn’t wear well.

He had one of those faces.

He hovered over me. I waited to see what he would say… or do.

Whatever he wanted to do, I wouldn’t be opposed to it.

How vastly different my thoughts were this morning compared to yesterday’s.

“Put sunscreen on me, baby.”

I blinked.

That was not what I expected him to say.

His smile widened.

I reached behind me for the bottle and scooted back on the lounge chair to make room for him.

He sat, and I rubbed sunscreen on his broad back, the action doing nothing to abate the heat I was feeling.

He reached back and tugged my legs so they wrapped around him, and he grabbed the sunscreen bottle and put some on my legs as well.

We covered each other with the lotion.

I was sure we were well protected, but I couldn’t seem to bring myself to stop touching him.

To explore his warm skin with my hands, tracing along the intricate lines of his tattoos on his back. My pointer finger moved along the curve of the skull tattoo and down to one of its hollowed eyes before he turned around. He held still and let me apply it to his pecs.

I had a feeling this was all new to him.

Was he…

Was this making him feel vulnerable?

The way it did me whenever he touched me?

I bit my bottom lip and glided my hand down to his side, to the rosary wrapped around a realistic blade tattoo on his rib, my hand stopping when I got to the raised skin of his scar.

The scar was big.

It was four or five inches long, and based on how the wound had healed, I’d say it was deep.

Gabriel was lucky to even be alive.

He didn’t say, but I guessed this was Luis’ work.

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