“Right.” I dropped my arm, put it behind her knees, and swept her up. I took two steps into the room and gently rested her on the bed. “I’m not going anywhere, but I will leave you alone. As I said, I’ll sleep on the sofa.” I brushed her hair from her forehead and softened the tone in my voice.
13
Sloane
“Just let me…”
I couldn’t tear my eyes away from Tackle’s. “Just let you, what?”
“Stay. Worry about you. Be here if you need anything.”
I should stand my ground; the truth was, I didn’t have the energy to. I’d asked him—told him—to leave, and he continued to refuse. Telling him again now wouldn’t be any different. He’d still stay.
“Okay.”
“Okay, I can stay?”
“As if you wouldn’t, no matter what I said.”
He smiled. “Let’s get you tucked in.” He pulled the covers back on one side of the bed and told me to roll over before doing the same on the other side.
“Thanks,” I murmured.
“Good night, then.” He turned to leave the room.
“Tackle?”
“Yeah?”
“You could stay. I mean, here, in the bedroom.”
“Are you sure you wouldn’t sleep better without me in bed beside you?”
I smiled. “I think I can resist the temptation.”
He smiled too and winked. “I’m not sure I can, but I’ll do my best.”
When he undressed and got in bed next to me, I looked into his mesmerizing green eyes. The features of his face were as perfect as the body he worked so hard to maintain. My eyes trailed down to his bare chest, and I squeezed my thighs together.
It didn’t matter that I’d just lost the contents of my stomach; I wanted Tackle to remove his boxer briefs, the only thing he’d left on, and feel him inside me.
“You keep looking at me that way, and there’s no way I’ll be able to resist the temptation.”
“I don’t want you to.”
He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and slowly opened them. “I told you I’d leave you alone so you could rest.”
“There’s something I want more than sleep.”
Tackle studied me but didn’t move a muscle.
“Unless you don’t want to.”
When he raised the sheet, I saw that he did, in fact, want to very much. I reached out and grasped his cock when he lowered his briefs. He hissed a breath in.
“You have no idea how many times I imagined this.”
“Did you, really?”