Page 209 of Playing the Pucking Game
“I really couldn’t sleep. I…I missed you.”
“That’s cr?—”
“Crazy, I know. Trust me, I know.”
Pushing up on my elbows, I glance down at the mess he left on my stomach.
“Wait. Don’t move,” he demands before he darts toward the bathroom.
The water runs for a minute or two, and then he’s back with a washcloth in his hand.
“What are you doing?” I ask as he crawls back onto the bed.
“Cleaning up my mess,” he explains.
I knew that. His intentions were obvious the second he emerged, but…
No guy has ever been like this after sex.
No. That’s not true.
Nootherman has ever been like this after sex.
Over the years, I’ve forced myself to forget the details of that night.
It was safer to lock it all up in a box and shove it to the back of my mind. But over the past few weeks, the lid has beenlifting, and everything I’ve tried so hard to forget is beginning to surface.
“It’s the least I can do after…” He gestures between us.
“Is that your way of apologizing?” I ask lightly.
“Hell no. I’m not apologizing for something I’m not sorry about.”
My brows lift.
“That was…that was everything, Parker. There’s no fucking way I’m apologizing for getting to experience that.”
He finishes cleaning me up before getting off the bed again.
“What happens now?” I ask his retreating back.
He pauses, his muscles tensing.
“Now, you need to go to the bathroom, and then we’re sleeping.”
“Sleeping?” I question.
“Yeah, that’s what I came here for. I sleep better when you’re beside me, pretty girl.”
My eyes fall closed as warmth spreads through me at the use of that nickname I’ve only heard on one previous occasion.
He takes a couple of minutes in the bathroom, and when he returns, he jerks his chin in the direction he’s just come from, silently commanding me to go and do the same.
I stand on weak, post-orgasm legs and wobble my way toward the smaller room.
The second I close the door and catch my reflection in the mirror, I gasp.
My hair is like a bird’s nest on top of my head, my cheeks are still burning, and my bottom lip is swollen from biting on it.
