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Jeremy smiled. “Yeah, Pop. Daisy’s added a few new ones, but the older ones are all grandma’s.”
“That’s amazing.” Tayla marveled at the long ties of friendship and family. She had family history on the Reyes side, but her mother didn’t talk about it. Her grandparents had passed. She didn’t really know her aunts and uncles in Sonoma. Her father’s family back east were a video chat once a year, and no more than that. “That’s really special, Gus.”
“Special and delicious.” Gus gave a decisive nod.
“That’s our family motto,” Jeremy said, wiggling his eyebrows. “Special and delicious.”
Tayla burst into laughter.
Gus rose to his feet. “And that is my cue to leave you two young people, because I don’t want to hear anything about that business, Jeremy Allen.”
“Turn your ears off then.”
“You know I will.” Gus took his cane and paused by Tayla’s chair. “Young lady, thank you for joining these two old bachelors for dinner. There’s hope for this one, huh?”
“Good night, Gus.” Tayla kissed him on the cheek. “Thanks for the steak and the stories.”
“See?” Gus turned to Jeremy. “Thatis our family motto: Steak and stories.”
“Go to bed!” Jeremy kissed the top of Gus’s head. “I’ll clean the kitchen.”
“You better.”
Gus walked down the hall and into his bedroom, leaving Tayla and Jeremy alone.
“Special and delicious, huh?” Tayla raised an eyebrow.
“Give me a hand with these dishes and I’ll tell you all about it.”
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Chapter Twenty
They were lyingnaked in bed, and Jeremy was using Tayla’s scarf to demonstrate his knot-tying skills.
“The figure eight you know…” He held her wrists together. “But do you know how to tie a figurenineloop?”
“I don’t.” She batted her eyes. “Thank you so much for teaching me.”
“You may need to practice.”
She leaned over and lightly pulled on his chest hair with her teeth. “You may need to let me go first.”
He lifted her hands over her head, making her breasts arch up to his mouth. Taking one of her nipples in his mouth, he scraped it with his teeth before he laved it with his warm tongue. “I don’t know,” he murmured against her skin. “I kind of like practicing on you.”
“I feel like, at some point, a climbing harness is going to get involved here.”
“Holy shit.” He turned his eyes upward. “Do you think I can secure a pulley to the ceiling?”
Tayla burst out laughing. “I was joking.”
“I’m not. I think.” His eyes narrowed and he turned back to her before kissing over her breasts and belly, tickling her neck with his beard, and generally making her laugh more than she ever had with a man.
Jeremy wasn’t only a great lover, he was fun. Tayla had never been able to let go like this in the bedroom. Sex was usually an intense, serious “let me show you how hot I am” display of manliness. Making love to Jeremy was easy and fun. He was confident without being cocky, though… he could be a little cocky too.
He enjoyed teasing her. He liked it when she teased him. If something awkward happened—and something awkward always happened with sex—he laughed and then proceeded to make her come, even while she was laughing. His knee slipped off the bed once, and they both went down. They tumbled onto the floor in a heap. Tayla pulled a groin muscle, but she couldn’t be mad, especially when Jeremy massaged it very thoroughly.
“For medical purposes.”
