Page 186 of Cross the Line
“Doable,” Eli murmurs, leaning in to kiss my cheek. “Hello, Angel.”
“Hello, Love.” Now I’m the one sighing when he molds his hand tomy face and peppers kisses on my forehead, my cheeks, and my nose, before his mouth finds mine.
Then his tongue spears past my lips with a guttural grunt. There’s no prelude to the hard grip of his hands on my thighs as he yanks me in front of him. He’s fucking my mouth the way he eats my pussy. Like it’s his last supper.
Even as Jayden goes about unwrapping my sweater dress from my body, Eli doesn’t stop kissing me. I don’t think he’s ever kissed me like this. Like it really might be our last taste of each other. And I reciprocate with every part of me, until I’m gasping for breath and my beautiful men have me splayed on the cold granite, completely at their mercy.
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“Congratulations!”I squeal, giving Summer the hugest hug while she shows me her latest ultrasound pictures that confirm she’s having a sweet baby girl. “Are you happy?”
“So freaking happy!” We’re jumping up and down in the middle of the office, her rounded belly pressing into my stomach.
My thoughts go straight to the baby conversation JJ, Eli, and I had in Aspen—and the crazy-hot sex that followed. The sex. The conversation. What it means, and how every part of me yearns for it.
I can picture it all. Our life. Our future. Our babies. Wild, dark-haired boys, and quietly brooding, light-haired girls. A whole brood of them to chase around and love on…
My heart is dying for it.
“I can’t wait to meet her,” Summer sighs with a blissed-out smile that makes the longing inside me wrench deeper. “I’ve been thinking about names for a while, and it clicked today. I wasn’t sure about it when Parker suggested Persephone, but I can just hear myself calling for her in the playground… Percy East… come to Momma…” She’s cooing with a warble in her voice when the bell over the door rings through the space.
Blanca’s telltale whine greets me before I turn to see Eli standing in the open doorway, trying to calm her down while Jayden saunters toward me. A soft grin lights up his face when our stares lock.
I swear the space shrinks around me with his hulking presence. So tall that he has to dip every so often to avoid the exposed wood beams. Everything about him is so big.So significant.
“Hey, Baby,” he croons, stopping in front of me with a drink tray in one hand and a food bag in the other. His gaze drops to the strip of scan pictures in my hand before he looks past me at Summer. “Hi… and congratulations…”
“Hi, and thank you… again,” she snickers back as I give her the scan images.
“What are you doing here?” I ask Jayden, leaning to the side to see Eli filling up the doorway with Blanca cradled in his arms like she weighs as little as a newborn.
“Feeding you,” JJ replies, grin broadening. “We missed breakfast, so…”
Did we?Heat sparks across my face at the memory of how they ravaged me.
“Actually, I was about to close up. We don’t have any more client calls or meetings today, and you’ve sorted through all the samples already…” Summer clears her throat. “So, I think I’m going to go kidnap Parker from work and take him baby girl shopping.”
“I still have a few emails to reply to,” I start, but she quickly tells me, “You can totally do that from home.”
“Are you sure?”
“Girl, you’ve spent the last two weeks staring daggers at that calendar,” she laughs, pointing to the month-at-a-glance whiteboard on the wall next to my desk. “I’m sure.”
“Bee, chill…” Eli groans at our baby’s loud grumble.
“Come on in,” Summer tells him, heading to her desk where her MacBook is already shut and her planner is stacked on top with her phone, ready to be dropped into her purse. “She can probably smell Dex. I bring him to keep me company sometimes.”
On cue, Blanca takes off around the perimeter of the office, sniffing every corner before beelining for Summer.
With a chuckle, JJ puts the drinks and food in his hands down on the workbench beside us. “That dog is crazy. She spent the whole damn morning stalking Eli around the apartment or pacing at the front door, waiting for you.”
Eli greets Summer with a wave, crouching next to me and JJ to call Blanca back. She pays him no mind, enjoying Summer’s fuss too much.
“You’ve turned her into an attention whore,” Jayden chuffs, draping his arm around my shoulders and drawing me to him for a quick, chaste kiss.
All the while, Eli’s hand wraps around my calf, skimming up past theshort hem of my skirt to squeeze the back of my thigh as he presses a quick peck below my hip.
So brazen… and so freakinghot. It takes everything for me not to whimper when he stands and the rough pads of his fingers rake over my skin.
