Page 47 of Suddenly Single
“I donna want to interfere with the path you are exploring, but I canna help but ask if you’re certain this is what you want.”
She kissed his face, his neck. “I am more than certain.Don’t you want to lose those pants?”
“I mean the inn, aye? This life.”
“The inn is literally the furthest thing from my mind right now,” she said, and slipped her hands around his waist.
“It can be a solitary life, aye? There are days, particularly in the winter, that seem so long without a body to keep you warm. I want you to have someone, Jenny.I want you to feel needed and loved—”
“Edan, seriously, you’re finally going to talknow?” she asked, and threw her arms around his neck and kissed him.
Edan caught her waist, twirled her around, and threw them both onto the bed.Jenny giggled at the bit of bouncing they did.
“There is quite a lot I have to say about your alarming idea,” he said, and began to move down her body, rolling her to one side to unzip her dress. “But I suppose it can wait.” He shimmied the dress down her body, and Jenny’s laughter began to fade into panting.
He bit at her panties, dragging them down her body with his teeth. He expertly removed her bra, then traced her body with his hands in one long caress.Jenny felt as if she’d been starved for weeks, and he was the sustenance she needed.Jenny could feel his racing pulse beneath her lips, the muscles working in his back and hips as he explored her body. He kissed and stroked her, arousing her to delirious pleasure, and just when she thought she’d have to beg, he fumbled in a bedstand for a condom.
She was beside herself with desire, and when he rolled onto his back and put her on top, Jenny was eager to move things along.She began to move on him, sliding up and down his erection.
But Edan put his hands on her hips and slowed her.“You’ve really caught me by surprise, aye?”
“That’s what you said,” she breathlessly agreed, and tried to maneuver herself onto his cock.
“It must be true that lightning strikes when you’re least—”
“Edan!” she said, and leaned over him, her hair spilling around them.“Stoptalking,” she said, and silenced him with a deep kiss.
He returned her kiss with one that was hard and full of purpose and passion and need. He began to move with her and slid solidly into her body. Jenny gasped with pleasure.She was lost from that moment, riding along as Edan captained the ship.
Edan abruptly flipped her onto her back, draped one of her legs over his shoulder, and tenderly caressed her face as he moved in her, reverently kissing her lips and her skin. Jenny had never felt more desirable to a man in her life.Her response to his attention built to an explosion, catapulting her into pure ecstasy, a release so spectacular that she was certain none would ever compare again.
Edan’s release was just as explosive; he came with a deep groan of satisfaction.When he stilled, he covered her face with breathless kisses and carefully rolled off of her to lay beside her, tangling his fingers with hers as he sought his breath.Jenny was gulping for air, too, but she felt as if she were still soaring high above them.
“Magical,” Edan said.
Magical.His choice of word thrilled her, because that is exactly what she would have said.Itwasmagical.
“And I donna say so lightly.I’ve been hiding from truth for too long now. I’ll no’ hide any longer.”
Jenny opened her eyes and blinked.What truth was he talking about?
“I suppose I get caught up in the work like everyone, aye?” He stroked her hair, twined some of it around a finger. “I’ve been thinking about the back of the inn.Seems as good a good place as any for a terrace and maybe an outdoor bar.”
He’d been thinking about it? Did that mean he wanted to stay? Jenny’s heart began to patter a little harder.She rolled onto her side, propped herself up on her elbow and stared down at him.
“We’d have little use of it in winter, but in the summer, it would be bonny.There’s the cottage at the end of the lane, as well,” he mused as he brushed the tip of a tress of her hair across her collarbone.“Clara thought it would make a good honeymoon suite.”
“Whoareyou?” she asked. “You’ve said more in the last half hour than you have all week.”
He smiled at her.
She smiled back.She was probably letting her emotions run wild, but Jenny felt like something profound had happened to her.Like a secret door had opened and warm, bright light had come streaming in.She could feel every single beat of her heart; she could feel the emotions churning.Everything was different for her this time.Edan, this inn—all of it.
“There’s an inn in the Hamptons that I’d like to see.It’s got quite an excellent reputation,” he said, and began to talk about improvements that he thought could be made to the Cassian Inn.
She discovered she loved listening to him talk.She loved his Scottish brogue, she loved the feel of him next to her.She loved planning a future, hearing him talk about the things that made her indescribably happy.She buried herself into his side and listened. It was like he’d finally unlocked the gates and miscellaneous thoughts and ideas were rushing out.Jenny understood completely.He’d at last pushed past the trauma of his broken engagement.He was ready to take part in the world again.
But it turned out that even Jenny had her limits.When Edan began to talk about the maintenance required for the golf course, she had to silence him with a kiss.And more.Much more.She learned something else that night—she was not the only one who was made mute by great sex.
