Page 58 of Sweet Surrender
Will:Cute, I love animals.
Blake:Aaand now we’re besties.
Beau:WTF? Did you guys trade in your balls and testosterone?
Blake:Don’t bring your toxic-masculinity shit into this group.
Dean:Yep, definitely reading Justine’s textbooks, he wouldn’t have learned that big word on his own.Laughing emoji.
Blake sent a picture.
Dean:Is that you and Penny cuddling?
Blake:Yep, masculine as fuck, dickhead.
Will:This was fun but I gotta run, filming just started again. Catch up later.Waving emoji.
Blake:Me too, pregnancy hormones just kicked in, the hella good ones if you catch my drift.Winking emoji.
Beau:Gross.
Dean:I am also required by my lady, don’t wait up, haaaa!
Beau:You’re all douchebags.
Beau chuckled and dropped his phone down on the couch, sighing. As if he’d been ditched for their women. Well, not Will, he would always stay single but the other two were big fat Judases. His eyes flicked towards the bedroom door again.
Man, he missed Taylor this week. They’d gone from hardly speaking to each other to living together and seeing each other every day. She had settled back into his life so seamlessly it was like they were never apart. Now he was back to hardly seeing her, it didn’t feel right.
He was looking forward to their next self-defense lesson, where he could finally get his hands back on her, uh, spend time with her.Just have to get through a few more dayshe thought, getting up and heading to bed.
But why was she so mad at him earlier? Just because she didn’t know he wore glasses? And because she’d caught him slobbing around in his sweatpants? He shook his head, not attempting to try and work her out. He opened the door and saw she was asleep so quietly got changed and slipped under the sheets.Is the pillow fort larger than normal tonight?
Taylor’s soft moan echoed around the room.
Here we go again.
Chapter 16
“Oh, I see how it’s going to be,” Taylor muttered under her breath as she stalked into Beau’s gym and spotted him. Wearing his glasses. The square black frames perched on the end of his nose like that wasn’t the sexiest damn thing she’d seenever.No, wait, if he took them off and cleaned them with the hem of his t-shirt. Oh mama,thatwould be the hottest thing she’d ever seen. God, when did she get such a thing for nerds? Trick question. She’d always had a thing forhim.
She had no idea he wore glasses, had never seen him in them before and had been totally unprepared. Her knees had gone so weak she could barely walk. To say she reacted calmly would be an absolute lie. Her horror had only increased when he stood up and she noticed the gray sweatpants that clung to his muscular thighs and left very little to her imagination. And boy had her imagination run wild after seeing the bulge he was hiding in his stupid jeans all the time.
But she wouldn’t give in. Wouldn’t make the first move,hell naw.
He acted all innocent but he knew exactly what he was doing. He was a sly fox, but she wouldn’t let him win. She just hoped she could keep it together today when they were getting handsy.
“You’re late,” he frowned at her over the top of said glasses, that little crease forming between his brows. Her knees nearly gave out.For fuck’s sake, this is war!
“Hello my love. How nice to see you,” she simpered, then lowered her voice to a husky drawl. “I’ve missed you.” She pressed herself against him. The elderly ladies around the gym all turned and glared at her as she dared put her hands on their beloved personal trainer. She patted his ass trying not to notice how firm it was, and he frowned down at her again. She squeezed hard and he jumped.
“Really?” he croaked.
“Just gotta make sure these ladies know who you belong to,” she said.
His eyelids dipped seductively. “You could always just kiss me?” She pursed her lips at the reminder, and he chuckled. “That’s what I thought.”
“Do I get to kick you in the balls today?” she asked, her smile all spite.
