“I want to get up.” I rolled over and freed her. She wiggled off the bed.
“What’s wrong, baby?” I stood up and wrapped my arms around her waist.
“Jacob, I don’t want to confuse the kids.”
Confuse the kids. Hell, I’m confused.
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t think you should spend the night.”
“I won’t play the hot and cold game you’re playing. You can’t keep pushing me away like this. We just made love.”
“I’m sorry for that too, just go.”
“No, I’m not leaving you,” I wrapped my arm around her waist, pulled her back into the bed and snuggled up next to her.
She had mixed feelings. Yet, I was determined to prove to her that only one of those feelings were our truth. We belonged together.
Chapter Thirteen
Destiny
“Matt Wilde is going to be the death of me,” Tasha said when I answered the phone for her the next morning at 6:00 a.m.
“He must be since you’re up this early calling me,” I said and then cleared my groggy throat. “It’s too early for this. If it’s not life or death, can you call me after nine?”
“Girl, I’m dying over here. So, you know I said I wasn’t feeling Matt like that, right?”
“Yeah, I know what you said.”
“Well, Matt was at a company party and I was spending the night with Cody last night, since he would be home late. After tossing and turning for hours on the uncomfortable couch, I went and got in his bed. I was asleep within minutes of laying my head on the pillow.”
“Hold up. Why did you get in his bed, though? Doesn’t he have guest rooms?”
“He does have a lot of guestrooms.”
“Well, why did you get in his bed?”
“It’s one of those king-size sleigh beds that looks like it’s fit for a queen. Plus, it was comfortable. I just laid down in it for a second and didn’t mean to fall asleep. The next thing I knew, I was having sweet dreams that felt so real.”
“Dreaming about Matt,” I assumed.
Tasha gasped. “Yes, honey. In my dream, he pulled me against his warm body. It felt good snuggling against him. I enjoyed every minute of it. He kissed me and it felt real too. Then, his tongue went in my mouth and I was moaning and shit,” she said.
“Oh, God please don’t tell me that he was in bed with you and you didn’t know it.”
“Girl, when I opened my eyes and realized he was in the bed with me, I pushed him away and started yelling at him about getting in bed with me. He had the nerve to say he was just following my lead.”
I giggled. “You were in his bed, Tasha. Lord. What happened next?”
“I found out that he likes me as much as I like him. That we’ve been crushing on each other and trying to pretend we weren’t.”
“Well, Jacob came over last night and he’s still here.”
“Jacob, came over and tuned you up! I knew you sounded quite spicy this morning.”
I laughed. “I do not sound spicy.”