Holiday Sparks

“Handy that I can give you some hands-on aftercare.”

“Oh, you think so?”

He nodded sagely. “It’s all about aftercare. And now that I don’t have to play professional artist, I can taste these.”

She let her head tip back as his hot breath hovered over her nipple before sucking one into his mouth.

“I watched them tighten when I was working on you.”

She held his head to her chest, her grip tightening on his hair. “Yeah, I was kind of embarrassed.”

He grinned up at her. “The endorphin high affects everyone differently.”

“I’m not into pain.”

He laughed and bit down, drawing her nipple away from her breast.

“Okay, maybe that part— Gosh, just like that.”

“I’m probably the only man on this earth that gets hard when I hear that word out of your mouth.”

She dragged her eyelids open. “What?”

He shook his head. “Never mind.” He nipped her other breast, dragging the flat of his tongue over her nipple. “Do you want your shirt?”

She shook her head. “I want you to take yours off.”

“Why, Darcy Tucker, are you going to violate my place of business?”

“If you have a condom I am.”

He rolled back to his worktable, opened the drawer and flashed his wallet. “I just happen to have one on me.”

“Very convenient.” She tried not to think about him being with anyone else between the time they’d made love and today. Making sure to keep her smile bright when he rolled back to her, she reached for the condom.

He frowned. “Everything okay?”

“Good thing you don’t have a parrot in here. You say that an awful lot.”

Ben wrapped his hands around hers and stopped her from ripping it open. “Something happened between here and my desk.”

“Nothing happened.”

He dragged her to the edge of the chair. “You’re the only person I want to be with, Darcy. If me saying something about other customers is bothering you…”

She shook her head. “I don’t have any right to say anything if you did.”

“Yes, you do.”

She looked up at him. “I—”

“Darcy, when I’m with you I’m with you. No one else.”

She nodded. Ben would definitely be true to any woman he was with. He wouldn’t disrespect someone like that. That much she knew.

“Then what?”

“It’s nothing.”