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“Baby, what I gave you was just that. I was giving you a gift you don’t have to reciprocate,” he says in a no nonsense type tone.

“I know, but, well, I’ve never done something like this before and I really want to.” This time there’s desperation in my voice, and I’m slowly trailing his side with my fingertips, not wanting to let go of any part of him.

“Only if you’re sure.” I nod my head and then he flips the covers off of us and proceeds to teach me everything he loves about my mouth on him, and I learn that I really enjoy giving him pleasure as well.

Chapter Fifteen

Liam

Everly and I have settled in with each other these past few weeks. I’d have her moved in already if I could, but she’s got an independent streak that can’t be tamed and, truth be known, I don’t want to tame it.

This time I’m meeting her at her place to take her out to dinner. She’s been cooking at my place as much as she can, working her full time job at the local diner, and going to school part time. I know she doesn’t have much longer left until she graduates. This is my way of treating her for once, even if she still feels like she owes me for working on her car. Which she absolutely doesn’t. It’s an argument we have over and over again; one that I always end with kissing her so it’s over, and we both don’t dwell on something so trivial. My time is coming up to go away and as much as I don’t want to the contract states otherwise. One of those things that, had I known I’d be meeting Everly, I would have never signed.

It’s also one of those things I’ll be talking to Ev about over dinner. I pull up to her apartment. If I have my way, she’ll be living at my house before I head back overseas to finish the last of this contract, and then I’ll be settling down back on American soil for the remainder of our lives.

I jump down from the truck. I wore my nicest jeans, a black button down shirt, and my nicest boots. I make my way up to her stoop, straightening my shirt, but stop when I see her coming out of the front door. She’s dressed up to the nines, in a little black dress, that’s strapless, and it hugs her curves in all the right places. When my gaze drops down to her legs, I see she has on a pair of heels that elongate her legs. All I can think about now is Everly naked with nothing on except her fire engine red heels with them digging in my back as I take her and make her mine.

She meets me where I’m at the bottom step of her porch, and she’s on the second to last. With her in her heels, it creates the perfect height for us to be at eye level.

“There are no words to describe you, Ev. You’re taking my breath away standing right here in front of me,” I tell her with a huskiness in my voice, and I’m thankful as fuck that my jeans are stiff from the starch and hide enough of my cock that continues to stay hard around her.

I see her take a deep breath before blowing it out. Her cheeks are pink, and she looks like she doesn’t know if she wants to jump me or run away from me.

“Thank you,” she finally breathes out before looking back into my eyes. I bring my hand up to the nape of her neck, gently massaging it.

“Only stating the truth,” I tell her while looking deep into her eyes, wanting to take her mouth in a searing kiss, but, knowing if I do, we’d never leave her place. And after tasting her the other night and feeling how tight and innocent she is, she needs to know this isn’t just about sex for me. This is for us.

Chapter Sixteen

Everly

Trying to find the perfect outfit for tonight took forever. Getting my hair to cooperate was another ordeal in itself. It’s a damn good thing I don’t wear a whole bunch of make-up, or I wouldn’t have been ready by the time Liam got here.

When I saw him on my porch, I immediately thought “how lucky am I to have this amazing man in my life,” and I truly believe that. Liam goes above and beyond for anyone. He got a phone call in the middle of the night that Pete’s water pipe bursts and he got up, got dressed, all within ten minutes. He came back to bed hours later, finding me in my sleep and held me the entire night.

Liam helps me in to the truck and then slides into the driver’s seat, and we head off for dinner. He didn’t tell me where we were going, just that we were going on a date, and it was somewhere nice.

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