Page 21 of No Regrets

Chapter Six

Kaden lay in his bed with a hard-on. An hour of cold water plummeting against his body, and two orgasms later, he still wanted Brianna. He was hard for her and ached to feel her body surround his senses.

He rolled to his side, no position feeling comfortable with the ache between his legs. It was well past midnight, and he couldn’t sleep in the condition she left him in. Merry Christmas to me.

He rolled to the other side, finally kicking the covers off because the room was so damn hot. His skin ached and felt feverish though he didn’t feel sick. He wanted Brianna, and she deliberately played him only to turn him away with her tears.

He obviously hadn’t been turned off by them, but she sure did put a halt on things. He couldn’t stop seeing the sexy lingerie she wore underneath that piece of fabric she called a dress, and dammit if he didn’t become impossibly harder.

Finally, he sat up, giving up on any sleep. He could jack off all he wanted to, but only Brianna would satisfy the ache. Dammit, she even got him hot at his parents’ house, sitting so close to him, her perfume infusing in his senses. She smelled good and tasted even better.

“Kaden?” He turned to see Brianna’s small body standing in his doorway.

“What?” he grumbled, rubbing his eyes.

“I can’t sleep.” She stepped into his room, though she stayed close to the doorway.

“Bree, what is it you really want?”

“You.”

A bolt of lightning couldn’t have hit him harder than that single word coming out of her mouth. He turned toward her, and she stood sheepishly in her lavender gown, clearly wearing nothing underneath.

Her nipples beaded underneath the silk, while the dark thatch of hair, shadowed the area between her thighs. He wanted her so bad he wouldn’t last long if she kept saying things like that to him.

“Brianna, come here and talk to me.” Talking was the last thing he wanted to do, but he needed to know what she thought about when he was kissing her, and how to get her mind off it.

She came around to his side of the bed and sat on the edge, prim and proper. Nothing about her seemed seductive or brazen but at least she was there.

“What did I do wrong?”

“Nothing.” She pursed her lips. “My only real experience is when we created a child, and I guess I’m scared of screwing up again.”

She was afraid of not knowing what to do and of ending up pregnant because of it? Women never ceased to amaze him. Unable to hold it back, he grinned and slid an arm around her body.

“Bree, you know exactly what to do, and I promise, this time we’ll use condoms.” If her eyes even glanced at his lap, she’d know how well she knew what to do.

“Yeah. Right.” She played with the hem of her nightgown. “You’ve been with plenty of women. Why would you pick me?”

He wanted to strangle her, yet at the same time to pull her close and kiss away her fears. He settled for a hug, forcing her to face him eye to eye.

“Listen to me. If you don’t stop demeaning yourself I’m going to paddle your fine behind.” He kissed her, holding her cheeks in his hands. “Yes, I’ve been with plenty of women, yet none of them matter so I’m not rehashing the past. Never in my life had I ever not used a condom, until I slept with you, and you know what, I don’t regret it. I haven’t got a clue where I’d be right now if we didn’t have that baby, if I didn’t have you. I’d probably be desperate and alone.

“I used to get drunk on nights when women didn’t satisfy a need of companionship, thinking ole Jack would be my best friend.” He kissed her, taking his time into coaxing her to believe him. “I want you, Bree. Just as you are. You’re beautiful and smart and so fun to be with when you let your guard down. You’re a wonderful mother—I couldn’t ask for a better parent for my child and—” He wiped her tears. “Sweetheart, you put yourself down way too much.”

She sniffled, wiping her tears with the back of her hand. “I’m afraid it’ll be a mistake.”

He went through the list of cons in his head. “What’s the worst that could happen? You end up pregnant again? Come on, sweetheart. Shiloh needs a little brother sometime or another. I prefer it later in life, but if it happens, so be it.”

“Yeah. So be it.” She stared at him. “You want another child with me?”

Did he really say that? “If the second is anything like the first then, hell yeah, I want all my children to be with you.”

“Really? You don’t even love me, Kaden. Why would you continue to have kids with a woman you didn’t love?” She stood, pacing around the small area next to his bed.

“Who said I didn’t love you?”

“Who said you did?

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