I couldn’t tell if she was joking. Did she want to get naked with me in the bed? All I could think about was how much I wanted to be naked with her in that bed too and if she wanted the same thing then we should both be naked. My mind swirled with the thoughts of what she really meant by what she had just said. I couldn’t talk, I couldn’t look at her; I was stunned.
“Well, let’s get naked then,” I finally stuttered out with a little bit of laughter, secretly hoping that she was serious and she did want to be naked with me in those crisp sheets. But I was totally prepared for her to tell me she was joking.
“You go first,” she teased me.
“Oh, don’t tease me like that. I’ll happily get naked and crawl into these sheets.”
“Then do it,” she taunted me. “I dare you.”
Sarah didn’t know me well enough to know how much I loved dares, but I was totally naked and had slipped under the sheets in less than twenty seconds. Sarah had turned her head away from me when she saw me start to strip and she was in the midst of a total giggling fit. She held her hands up to her face just to make sure she wouldn’t get a glimpse of me naked, although I thought I saw her taking a little bit of a peek.
“Now I dare you,” I said as I let my hand glide up and down her arm.
If I wanted to keep things light and playful, I certainly shouldn’t have touched her. That single motion had sent vibrations through my whole body and I longed to feel every in of her. If she would only agree to get naked with me under the sheets; that was all I needed to be positive about her interest in me.
Chapter Ten
Sarah
His naked body was only a small layer of cloth away from me and I couldn’t resist the opportunity to feel him. My hands wanted to glide over his defined abs and all my reasoning flew out the window. I felt like a high schoolgirl that had never been with a man before.
My hands trembled at the idea of being naked with Garrett. I didn’t even let my mind wonder far enough ahead to consider actually making love to him. All I could think about was his body and mine and how much pleasure it would bring me to have them naked and together.
“Close your eyes,” I said with a giggle.
“Are you really going to get naked?”
“Shhh, I said close your eyes.”
Garrett did as I asked him and closed his eyes and even turned to face the other direction as I undressed myself and slid under the covers. I couldn’t believe I was naked with him under the covers. It certainly wasn’t where I had expected to find myself, but there I was; and there he was.
It was barely noon and the two of us hadn’t even started our work for the day, but instead we were hiding out in his newly assigned cabin and lying naked together. I could have gone down in history as one of the worst bosses ever. Although, I didn’t actually think of myself as Garrett’s boss; my father was more like the boss and he was in charge of me as well. So instead of being Garrett’s boss, I was more like his coworker.
“I’m going to turn around now,” Garrett said softly.
He stayed on his side of the bed as he looked at me and let one of his hands trail up and down my arm. We were both there naked and looking at each other. I felt like I could really see him and even though my gut told me he wasn’t telling me the whole story of his past, I still felt like he was a good guy. I couldn’t explain it and I might have just been justifying my own actions, but Garrett seemed like a good guy to me and that was enough for that moment in time.
The moment was intimate and I took in every second of it. I gazed into his eyes and remembered the small wrinkles around the corners. I longingly looked at his lips and thought about how they had tasted when we kissed. My eyes even focused on his hair and how there were tiny little curls up by where his cowboy hat had once sat. I took in everything because I didn’t know if I would be naked and alone with Garrett ever again, but I didn’t want to forget anything about him.
“Hi,” I smiled at him.
“Hi back,” he smiled back at me. “Aren’t these sheets wonderful?”
We both slid our hands up and down the fabric while we continued to look at each other. The sheets were wonderful; I couldn’t deny it. My hands seemed to glide so easily over the flawless sheets; they were probably the same brand that my mother used in my room, but they felt so much different when I was naked with a man.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been naked in bed with a man,” I said as the thought crossed my mind.
I didn’t want to say it out loud, but the words escaped me before I could stop them. I was pretty sure that Garrett didn’t want to hear about my sad love life, and I quickly wanted to die after the words came out.
I could only guess that Garrett had probably slept with dozens of women. From what I knew of him so far, I suspected the women even threw themselves at him when he went to bars. It didn’t matter that he was poor or didn’t have a regular place to stay, I knew that the ladies still loved him.
Hell, if I had met Garrett in a bar and he had paid attention to me like he had on the ranch so far, I guarantee I would have jumped into his bed. But guys like Garrett didn’t really hit on me. Well, only if I was there with some of my ditzy friends, then I would occasionally get hit on because they thought I was as ditzy as my friends were.
“It hasn’t been all that long since I’ve been naked in the same room with a dozen men,” Garrett joked.
His hand moved slowly up to my cheek and I watched in anticipation as he pressed himself up and moved closer to me. His blue eyes were mesmerizing as he looked down at me and I felt my whole body get wet with excitement. Garrett Reynolds was my dream guy. Admittedly, I hadn’t actually dreamed about such a man until he was right there in front of me; but he was exactly what I thought of when I fantasized about having a man in my bed again.
“I’m going to kiss you now,” I said and quickly leaned in toward him before I lost my nerve.