Page 77 of Taming Grumpy Dr. Beast
Lily,
I wanted you to know that the professor that took over your dad’s office found pictures that fell behind a filing cabinet. I can mail them to you. Send me the address of your internship site. I asked Bev for it, but she said it was confidential.
Yours,
Gavin
An image of Gavin pouting helped to lighten my mood.
Gavin,
Please hold on to those pictures. I’ll get them from you when I return.
Lily
Simple. To the point. Nothing to give false hope that I wanted anything romantic with him. Satisfied with my response, I tapped send. Now that I’d dealt with Gavin’s intrusion to my day, I opened the internet app, prepared to order the remaining supplies I needed to finish the book.
“Lily?” Jaxon called from the outer office.
He was still working in the small study instead of the room next to the rare book collection. My stomach fluttered with little bursts of delight at his excuse that I was too tempting and neither of us would get any work done being that close to each other. I’d never had someone who struggled to keep his hands off of me and I rather liked it. Especially when I constantly wanted to rip open his shirt, caress his abs, and have my way with him.
A grin broke out on my face as I thought of our nights together. I’d been learning the details of the tattoos that went up his arms, tracing them with my tongue and fingertips. The one with the blooming roses, lead into an intricate old stopwatch with roman numerals, and swirls on top. The other started with the same roses, moving into Celtic symbols, and then a winged gladiator. Wrapping around his back was a nod to his love of history. He had Zeus, other various Gods, and the Parthenon.
“I’m in here. I need to order supplies for the book, and then I’ll be ready.” Holding the tablet, I tapped at the button to finish my purchase, and I walked into the office.
His slow grin at my arrival had my lips kicking up too. “Done?”
“I am now.” I didn’t know how to be coy. Every nerve ending in my body screamed to be closer to him, to not ignore the need clawing at my body. I met him halfway.
Jaxon’s hands slid under the sides of my shirt to grab my hips. His fingers dug into me as he roughly pulled me close. I loved how he wasn’t always gentle and sweet. Goosebumps erupted all over my body when his thumbs rubbed against my skin. My breath stuttered at the sensations rioting throughout my body as it overloaded with pleasure.
I wanted to slow this moment down and speed it up all at the same time.
He was so dangerous to my libido. I wanted him with an intensity that was only matched by my love of learning. I couldn’t look at that comparison too deeply in fear of what it might mean.
His strong fingers moved out from under my shirt and lightly ran up along my back. A shiver rolled down my spine as he inched higher. I loved the anticipation of wondering where he would touch me next. He used one hand to yank out the elastic holding my bun in place and threaded his fingers through my hair. With a fierce grip, he pulled my head back to better angle my lips and deepened our kiss.
My grip tightened on his bicep, afraid I might fall as my knees grew weak and my legs quivered. Jaxon thrust his tongue into my mouth, giving me no option but to chase it with my own. His answering moan had me pressing my chest harder against his. “God, I’ve missed you today.”
I smiled against his mouth. “I saw you at lunch four hours ago.”
“Yeah, but we weren’t doing this.” He nipped at my lower lip.
“We had company.” I let out a breathless sigh and cursed my tea length skirt. It was too tight for me to wrap my legs around him, and I desperately wanted to. I needed to invest in shorter skirts if we were going to keep this up, because I definitely wanted him to throw me onto his desk and have his way with me. All without worrying about taking all our clothes off.
A soft whine interrupted us, and the little pup wove his body in and out of our feet. “Patches,” Jaxon growled. “Stop cock-blocking me.”
I shook with silent laughter.
“It’s not funny,” he grumbled.
“No, it’s not,” I responded, and pursed my lips together in an attempt to look serious. I completely ruined it when a chuckle escaped.
Even with his follow up grunt directed at me, he couldn’t hide the tiny smile that tilted up the corners of his lips, and I couldn’t hide what it did to me. My insides got all squishy and gooey. I wrapped my arms around him and lifted up on my tiptoes.
“Big softie.” I pressed a light kiss to his lips.
“Only for you.”
