Tempt the Ex (Tempt 2.5)

“I really want you, too, also, but most of all.” She comes closer. “I want to know if you’ll forgive me …” My hand goes to her face as my thumb rubs her cheek. “For being so crazy and letting you go.” She wraps her hands around my neck, and her fingers go into my hair. I lean down, slowly watching her stick her tongue out lightly as I get closer and hear her voice hitch.

“We done?” I ask her as she nods, and my lips land on hers. My heart pounds in my chest, slowly racing back down. It’s like it knows I’m home. It’s like it knows this is where I’m always supposed to be. My tongue slips with hers as my hands go into her hair, and I finally sigh. She’s here. She’s with me. I let go of her hair, my hands roaming down to her ass where I pull her into me, and she moans into my mouth. I’m about to push her on the table and eat her out.

“We can’t do this,” I tell her while our chests heave, and I see her eyes get sad. “I mean, we are doing this, just not here.”

“What do you mean?” Her hands come from my neck down to my chest.

“So last week when we had sex on the couch, Noah watched,” I tell her and see her eyes almost come out of her face. “You can kill him tomorrow, but right now …” I grab her hand and drag her up the stairs. “Right now …” I stop in front of my door, opening it up. “Right now, we have a lot of time to make up for.”

She smiles and nods her head. “Days and days.” She turns and leads the way to my room.

Epilogue

John

Six Months Later

“I can’t take it anymore,” Noah says from the table while I sit down and eat my toast that Dani just put in front of me.

“What is that exactly?” Dani asks, sitting in the chair next to me with her cup of coffee in her hand. It’s Sunday morning, and we just ventured out of bed. Six months ago, we made up several times that night, and the next day, I helped her move in her stuff.

“The lovey-dovey,” Noah says, groaning.

“Isn’t that what you wore out last night?” Dani asks him, and I finally look at him.

“I got lucky.” He shrugs, getting up. “What can I say?” Turning, he walks up the stairs and stops when he must cross paths with Austin. “Don’t go down there. They are all over each other.”

I shake my head and pull her chair closer to me. “I love you,” I whisper to her.

“They are not all over each other!” Austin yells back upstairs. “He said you guys were all over each other.” He walks to the coffee machine.

“And you came down to check?” Dani asks, shocked.

“I don’t have to come down and check,” Austin says, peering at us over his cup of coffee as he leans back on the counter. “I don’t know what you were doing to him last night”—he looks at Dani—“but don’t do that again unless we aren’t home.”

I look over at Dani who smirks. “Noted.”

“And you.” Austin looks at me. “Dude, you sounded like a pig with your grunting and shit.”

“I do not sound like a pig,” I say, shocked, looking at Dani.

“Don’t ask me. I was too involved in what I was doing to listen to you,” Dani says. She wiggles her eyebrows, knowing full well what she was doing.

“You guys are gross,” Austin says, walking out of the room.

“Will you marry me?” I look at Dani who looks shocked. “I mean, I know I have to do this whole roses and romantic and all that, but I want you to know that I want to marry you.”

“John,” she whispers.

“You deserve to have it all, and I promise you that I’m going to spend the rest of my life giving you everything that you need.”

“Yes,” she whispers, nodding her head with tears in her eyes.

“Good,” I tell her, biting a piece of toast. “Now when I get the ring, I’ll ask you for real.”

“I don’t need a ring,” she says. “All I need is you.” She puts down her coffee cup and gets up, grabbing my hand. “I think it’s time for a round two.”

I throw my toast down and chase her upstairs where we go through round two and three and maybe four.

The end