Page 41 of Delivery After Dark
“So it seems, and that, too, is your fault.”
“I see how this is gonna go.”
“Do you? Tell me all about it.”
“I’d rather show than tell.”
“Mmm, yes, please.” Somehow, he managed to disentangle from her and get his head together enough to drive them the short distance to the station, where he had the commander’s apartment. Bringing a woman there wasn’t ideal, but he had a separate entrance from the rest of the station, and no one was around at this hour anyway. The night shift had settled in to watch TV after dinner, and unless they were called out overnight, they wouldn’t emerge until the morning.
He was on vacation and free to do what he wanted, and what he wanted most was to spend as much time with the gorgeous, sparkling, sexy, funny, smart and thoughtful Monique as he possibly could. That was certainly a first for him. Often, he found himself looking for ways to disengage as yet another woman failed to stir anything in him but apathy.
Not this time.
Everything about her was different, and for the first time, he was thankful to all those unremarkable first dates for helping him to realize when someone special came along. He’d thrown her for a loop with the baby talk, but he was about seventy-five percent serious. If they both wanted kids and they both wanted each other, why not go for it? What did they have to lose?
It was madness. He knew it and didn’t care.
When they got to his place, he walked her in with an arm around her shoulders. His phone connected with his Bluetooth speaker and launched into “Shut Up and Dance.”
Monique turned to him as she tossed her coat onto a chair and started to groove to the song.
The lyrics about this woman being his destiny caught Linc’s attention and put a huge lump in his throat as he watched her move. He liked everything about her, including her sharp intelligence, biting wit and easygoing personality. Now he could add the sexy way she moved to the list. The woman could dance.
She reached out her hands to include him, and he went to her, fearing he’d turn her off by being a total clod.
But when he followed her lead, he found his own groove, which was a first.
He looped an arm around her waist without missing a beat and earned an impressed look from her.
“Two left feet, my ass,” she said, grinning.
“I guess it was all about finding the right partner.”
She curled her arms around his neck and ended up pressed against him. “That does tend to make all the difference.”
“I wouldn’t know. I’ve never had the right partner.”
“Me either.”
“This is feeling pretty right at the moment.”
“Sure is. How about you show me some of your other moves?”
“Oh, um, well, this is about the extent of it.”
“Somehow I doubt that.”
He wasn’t sure what came over him that had him leaning into a dip that he pulled off rather smoothly, if he said so himself.
“Not bad, Commander. Not bad at all.”
“We’ll see if I can still walk tomorrow.”
When she tossed her head back and laughed, he was completely captivated and couldn’t resist leaning in to kiss her neck.
“Mmm.” She moved against him, firing him up like he’d never been before as he walked her backward toward his bedroom while continuing to kiss the sexy column of her neck and breathe in the bewitching scent of her skin.
“Where’re we going?” she asked, sounding a bit breathless.
