Page 52 of Merry Mayhem
“How did you sleep?” he asks, crossing to the coffee pot.
I don’t even try not to check out his ass in those jeans. I might be attracted to him for more reasons than his blue eyes, big biceps, and nice ass, but I definitely noticed those as well.
“Not great to be honest,” I tell him. “How about you?”
He turns and leans back against the counter, regarding me across the space of the kitchen. “Not great. I didn’t think it would be appropriate to jerk off in Violet’s bedroom. So, I slept most of the night hard and dreaming of you.”,
My eyes widen. Okay. He talks blatantly about sex and has a little bit of a dirty mouth.
I don’t hate it.
At all.
“Same. Kind of. Not the hard part.”
One corner of his mouth turns up. “No vibrator use?” he asks. “Because I’ll be honest. Some of my sleeplessness was wondering what you were doing in your bedroom.”
I lift my coffee cup to hide my smile, sip, and then set it back down. “I thought about it. But I didn’t think it would be satisfying.”
He nods as if what I’m saying is akin to discussing how much tinsel is appropriate on Christmas trees. “I love that you’re already considering how much fun an extra ten or fifteen minutes could be.”
I finally give up fighting it and laugh. “Oh, I didn’t realize that was the offer. I guess my imagination ran away with me and thought it might be more like twenty or thirty minutes.”
He walks toward me. He sets his coffee cup on the breakfast bar, then leans onto his forearms and pins me with a direct look. “Let me be clear. We’re talking, you’re gonna lose a couple ofhoursof sleep. Fair warning.”
I lean over the bar and press my lips to his.
Yeah. The tingles from last night were not just a dark-hallway-late-hour thing.
He cups the back of my head and deepens the kiss.
I could definitely start every day like this.
Both of our phones ding at the same time.
I pull back, startled. I was totally lost in that kiss.
He just grins at me as he pulls his phone from his back pocket.
I look down.
It’s from Nora.
It’s Merry Mayhem Day One! Surprise Challenge One starts in thirty minutes! Town Square!
I look up at Josh. “Told you.”
“Damn. Seven a.m. This is hardcore.”
“You ready?”
His gaze drops to my mouth. “So ready.”
I grin and push back from the breakfast bar so I can slide to the ground. “For Merry Mayhem.”
He nods. “Yeah. Right. Merry Mayhem. That’s what I meant.”
I turn back in the kitchen doorway. “Remember, you’re mysister’sboyfriend.”
