Page 12 of Now & Forever
Gwen flung herself onto her back. “Maybe.”
He lightly smacked her bare thigh, head still propped up on his hand and eyebrows waggling. “Just say you don’t want me. It’s fine.”
Gwen spun onto her side, away from him.
“I’m not falling for that.”
“Just trying to have a little fun.” James lay down, hands behind his head and smile tugging at the corners of his mouth. “Remember how much fun you used to have when I opened those doors for you?”
“You mean the doors that let you insert your foot into your mouth?”
“That’s the one.”
Gwen sighed. “You really are good at that.”
“I’m good at alotof things.” He looped his arm around her waist and brought her closer to him. The perfect opportunity for his cock to hit her bare ass and remember what it wanted.Look, man, you’re not helping my case here. I know you miss our girl, but I have a feeling stabbing her ass isn’t going to help us get laid.For some reason, that didn’t work. Which meant James was going to have to go with Plan B.
“Have I told you recently that you are the most beautiful woman in the world?”
Gwen opened her mouth but retracted what she wanted to say. That was good. Because it meant she was rethinking her immediate reaction to an old friend knocking at her back door.One you haven’t said hello to in a while, Gwenny!If she really were not in the mood, she would have told him to sod off and slammed her head on the pillow. James would have stayed on his side of the bed… and maybe go take another shower.
“Not recently, no. You’ve been slacking. Starting to think you’re about to trade me in for a younger model.”
Thatalmostoffended James, a man once thought to be imperturbable. “Younger? What would I do with a younger woman? Can’t get much younger than you, anyway. You’re what, twenty-one?”
“Ha, ha,” Gwen said, still facing away from him. “Girls who are now my age when we met are from a different generation. I think. When does Millennial end, and Gen Z begin?”
“I have no idea. I refute the idea that I am a Millennial every single day.” James was in his thirties, for fuck’s sake. He also hated avocados!
“Technically, we are.”
“Technically,I’d rather be making out than talking about this.”
Gwen finally rolled in his direction. “I lied.”
“About what?”
“I’m not on my period.”
James grinned so widely that he almost pulled a muscle in his face. “Even if you were, my dear, it wouldn’t make a lick of difference to me.”Or the friend between my legs. He really, really doesn’t care.
“It’d make a difference to me.”
James lightly kissed her shoulder. “I love you, Gwenny.”
The way she tensed beneath his touch suggested she hadn’t expected him to suddenly sound so soft and sincere. “I love you too, Jimmy.”
He laughed. “Touché. Every time.” Nobody hated that nickname more than James, who would rather have his two front teeth punched out than ever be calledJimmywith any level of sincerity. Still, if he was calling his girlfriend Gwenny, she had every right to throw Jimmy back at him. It had been that way since their first official date and he asked,“Can I call you Gwenny? I really wanna call you Gwenny.”
“Only if I can call you Jimmy,”she had retorted.
“You mean it?” He spooned her, their bodies molding together as if they had always been that way. “Because I’ll always mean it when I say that I love you.”
She relaxed in his embrace. “Of course I mean it. You think I’m the type of woman to lie about loving someone? What do you think I want from you? Your money?”
“Think you want my cock, honestly.”
“Your money is flashy and temperamental, but your cock is forever.”
