touching you.”
She threw back her head as he gripped her hips and forced her to ride him faster and harder. Her fingertips dug into his biceps as his hips jerked to meet her thrusts.
“Come for me, Darcy.”
The orgasm hit her hard, and when it was over, she collapsed against Jake. His chest heaved with every ragged breath and he tightened his arms around her.
“I needed that,” she whispered when she could talk again.
“Give me a couple of minutes. I’m not done with you yet.”
“I think the hideous fabric on this couch wore half the skin off my knees.”
His chuckle reverberated through her body. “How do you think my ass feels?”
“It was worth it.”
“Yes.” His hand stroked up and down her back, making her shiver. “But bed next.”
“My bed’s closer.”
It was another five minutes before they’d recovered enough to make it there and quite a bit longer before either of them slept.
* * *
K EVIN DIDN ’ T ARRIVE until almost noon. Usually Jake would be annoyed at having half the day blown waiting for him, but since he and Darcy didn’t roll out of bed and into the shower until ten o’clock, it was probably for the best. And they didn’t get out of the shower until the water started running cold.
That wasn’t the way Jake wanted Kevin to find out he’d done the one thing he’d specifically told him not to do.
“Everything looks great,” Kevin said after Jake and Darcy had given him the grand tour. “I knew you two would be good together.”
Jack managed to keep a straight face, but through the corner of his eye he saw Darcy take a deep and sudden interest in her shoelaces. “Everything’s right on track.”
“How about the Valentine’s Day thing?”
“I’ve got a rough draft of the ad upstairs,” Jake said. “We can look it over later.”
“There’s an ad?” Darcy jabbed him with her elbow. “You haven’t even told me what the thing is yet.”
“You’ll find out.”
“She’ll be back at the bar by then,” Kevin said. “Once the doors open, the front end will be the wait staff’s responsibility and Darcy can come home where she belongs. God knows, we need her. Courtney, the temp girl we hired to cover for you, is driving Paulie nuts. She flirts to drive up the tips, but guys start vying for attention and it goes downhill from there.”
Jake laughed with the other two, but he wasn’t feeling the humor. He didn’t want to think about Darcy leaving. He couldn’t imagine wandering around their ugly brown apartment alone. Not seeing her every day. He didn’t want to imagine it. “Unless she decides to move up here and manage the pub. She’s got a lot invested in it.”
“Yeah, right.” The two words were like a blade through his heart. “I couldn’t wait to move to the city after school, and this is even smaller than the town I grew up in.”
Jake wasn’t stupid. He’d known the time both of them were doing the same thing and working toward the same goal was limited. Eventually they’d have some decisions to make about how their relationship would go forward after Jasper’s Pub opened for business.
He hadn’t realized how closed she was to the possibility of staying where they were, and that was a problem. He really liked it. He liked the quiet and the snow and the people and he really liked the restaurant they’d built. A three-hour drive each way didn’t preclude them seeing each other, but it was enough to put a crimp in a relationship.
Kevin and Darcy were chatting about the wait staff applications and how she felt about Karen Sikes, who was probably going to be their senior server and manage the other wait staff.
Jake didn’t care. And he didn’t care about the menu and he tuned out the dinner conversation about why Darcy had chosen one coffee supplier over another. And he was aware Kevin kept shooting him questioning glances, but he didn’t care about that, either.
He cared about whether or not he and the woman he was pretty
She threw back her head as he gripped her hips and forced her to ride him faster and harder. Her fingertips dug into his biceps as his hips jerked to meet her thrusts.
“Come for me, Darcy.”
The orgasm hit her hard, and when it was over, she collapsed against Jake. His chest heaved with every ragged breath and he tightened his arms around her.
“I needed that,” she whispered when she could talk again.
“Give me a couple of minutes. I’m not done with you yet.”
“I think the hideous fabric on this couch wore half the skin off my knees.”
His chuckle reverberated through her body. “How do you think my ass feels?”
“It was worth it.”
“Yes.” His hand stroked up and down her back, making her shiver. “But bed next.”
“My bed’s closer.”
It was another five minutes before they’d recovered enough to make it there and quite a bit longer before either of them slept.
* * *
K EVIN DIDN ’ T ARRIVE until almost noon. Usually Jake would be annoyed at having half the day blown waiting for him, but since he and Darcy didn’t roll out of bed and into the shower until ten o’clock, it was probably for the best. And they didn’t get out of the shower until the water started running cold.
That wasn’t the way Jake wanted Kevin to find out he’d done the one thing he’d specifically told him not to do.
“Everything looks great,” Kevin said after Jake and Darcy had given him the grand tour. “I knew you two would be good together.”
Jack managed to keep a straight face, but through the corner of his eye he saw Darcy take a deep and sudden interest in her shoelaces. “Everything’s right on track.”
“How about the Valentine’s Day thing?”
“I’ve got a rough draft of the ad upstairs,” Jake said. “We can look it over later.”
“There’s an ad?” Darcy jabbed him with her elbow. “You haven’t even told me what the thing is yet.”
“You’ll find out.”
“She’ll be back at the bar by then,” Kevin said. “Once the doors open, the front end will be the wait staff’s responsibility and Darcy can come home where she belongs. God knows, we need her. Courtney, the temp girl we hired to cover for you, is driving Paulie nuts. She flirts to drive up the tips, but guys start vying for attention and it goes downhill from there.”
Jake laughed with the other two, but he wasn’t feeling the humor. He didn’t want to think about Darcy leaving. He couldn’t imagine wandering around their ugly brown apartment alone. Not seeing her every day. He didn’t want to imagine it. “Unless she decides to move up here and manage the pub. She’s got a lot invested in it.”
“Yeah, right.” The two words were like a blade through his heart. “I couldn’t wait to move to the city after school, and this is even smaller than the town I grew up in.”
Jake wasn’t stupid. He’d known the time both of them were doing the same thing and working toward the same goal was limited. Eventually they’d have some decisions to make about how their relationship would go forward after Jasper’s Pub opened for business.
He hadn’t realized how closed she was to the possibility of staying where they were, and that was a problem. He really liked it. He liked the quiet and the snow and the people and he really liked the restaurant they’d built. A three-hour drive each way didn’t preclude them seeing each other, but it was enough to put a crimp in a relationship.
Kevin and Darcy were chatting about the wait staff applications and how she felt about Karen Sikes, who was probably going to be their senior server and manage the other wait staff.
Jake didn’t care. And he didn’t care about the menu and he tuned out the dinner conversation about why Darcy had chosen one coffee supplier over another. And he was aware Kevin kept shooting him questioning glances, but he didn’t care about that, either.
He cared about whether or not he and the woman he was pretty
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