Fated Hearts (Southern Bride 8)

I chuckled and looked up at him. He kissed the tip of my nose.

“Thank you. That felt amazing.”

I gave myself an internal fist pump. “Well, it was the least I could do after you pleasured me so much I nearly fell into a coma.”

He laughed and then turned me around and reached for the soap. When he started to clean my body, I had to bite my lower lip to keep from saying something stupid like, “Let’s move in together and make each other feel good every day!” Or “Tell me where you live, and I’ll fly there once a week. We can make this work!”

No. No, none of that would work. One, I didn’t want a long-distance relationship, and two, something told me Roger Carter wasn’t the type of guy who would be interested in any sort of relationship.

“Your skin is so soft,” he said, placing the soap back down and massaging my shoulders. I leaned against him and moaned when his hands moved around to caress my breasts.

I dropped my head back against his chest as I said, “That feels so good.”

He placed his mouth to my neck and kissed me softly. “You’re so beautiful, Anna.”

I closed my eyes and tried to keep my heart from beating straight out of my chest. I couldn’t deny how I was feeling, and a part of me was scared to death because I knew without a doubt, I was falling for Roger—and falling hard. I needed to remember it would all be over in a day or two. That the wonderful bliss and pleasure I felt was going to end. It had to end. We were two strangers who had been tossed together.

But the attraction we had for one another was undeniable. The first time I saw him, standing there naked, I somehow knew I was meant to meet him. We were meant to spend these few days stuck in this hotel together. Crazy as it sounded, I felt it in my very soul.

Turning to face him, I forced myself to offer a carefree smile. The last thing I needed was for Roger to think I wanted something more than the few days we’d agreed to. “Thank you for saying that.”

“It’s the truth.”

I felt my face heat up, and it wasn’t from the warm water in the shower. “Let’s go get some food. I’m starving.”

His eyes lit up. “So am I! Hopefully, the hotel doesn’t run out of supplies with this snowpocalypse.”

I laughed and stepped out of the shower while Roger turned it off. Grabbing a towel, I said, “To be honest, I’ve been scared we might lose power.”

“Don’t jinx us,” he stated as he stepped out and stood there, water rolling down his perfectly chiseled body. I opened my mouth to say something and found I couldn’t even form words. No man should look this beautiful.

“You must work out a lot…you’re…so built,” I stammered.

The moment the words came out, I wanted to hide my face. I was clearly staring at him, but my goodness, a girl couldn’t ignore a body as fine as his.

Roger laughed again. “I do work out. I love my Peloton, and I do weights. Run occasionally but not far, obviously.”

I let my gaze roam freely over him. I wanted to soak up as much as I could. “Well, it pays off.”

He winked. “I’m glad to know.”

Grabbing a towel, he quickly started to dry off alongside me.

The fact that this was going to end soon hung in the air like a heavy weight. I wasn’t sure if he noticed it as well. If he did, he played it off well. An unbelievable rush of sadness came over me as I wrapped the towel around me and walked out of the bathroom. I needed to get my emotions under control, and I needed to do it fast.

Roger

SOMETHING HAD SHIFTED.

I felt it surround me the moment her eyes skimmed up my body and met mine. Her expression changed from lust to something that looked like sadness. She forced a smile, wrapped a towel around her body, and walked out of the bathroom.

I took the few seconds of alone time to gather my thoughts. Annalise had blown my damn mind with that blowjob. The way she’d looked up at me, trusting me enough to try something for the first time…a part of me found it hard to believe that was her first freaking time. She put her finger in my ass, for fuck’s sake.

With an internal groan, I pushed the thought away before I got hard again. That had been one of the most amazing sexual moments of my entire life. I’d never felt this before with anyone, not even—

Before I could conjure her name in my mind, I wrapped the towel around me and walked out of the bathroom.

Clearing my throat, I said, “I got a text from the airline. No flights out today either.”