laughed and he said,
“Yep.”
We lay like that, plastered together by our own
sweat and our limbs and my sheets tangled, kissing and touching and falling in
and out of sleep for hours before both of us finally landed in dreamland for
the night.
CHAPTER
SIX
I woke up the next morning still glowing from the
night. Before I was fully awake I told myself not to be disappointed if he was
gone. What we had wasn’t a relationship…it was really, really hot sex . I honestly expected
Paul to be gone. I peeked open one eye and saw him
next to me. He had his back to me and I slid my arm down across his chest and
wriggled my body up against his back. I found his warm neck and kissed it.
He reached up and covered the hand that was on his
chest with one of his and rolled over toward me. He still had his eyes closed,
but he was smiling and I was already craving his lips. I pressed mine to his
and he kissed me back. It was morning breath of the sexiest kind. He pulled
open his eyes, then, and looked at me.
“Hey,” he said in that sexy, throaty voice.
“Hey.”
He reached down and pat his
belly with one hand. “You fed me too much last night.”
“I tried to work it off you,” I said with a smile.
“Mm, yes you did,” he said. “But…I have to lose
seven pounds before the weigh-in for the fight, so you can’t cook anything else
for me before that.”
“Okay, but don’t forget to eat healthy. If you
starve yourself, you’re starving that much-needed muscle too.”
“Spoken like a true trainer,” he said with a smile.
“Or just someone who really likes the muscle,” I
said.
“You can help me work off the seven pounds, just to
make sure it’s all fat and no muscle…if you find the time.”
“That would be my pleasure,” I said. “I am quite the
trainer, you know.”
“Oh I know,” he said in a low voice that gave me
butterflies in my belly. “Sexiest damned trainer I ever had.” He kissed me
again. This one more passionate than the last and for some reason my brain
chose that very second to remind me that my mother was on her way. Ugh!
When we broke the kiss I said, “My mother will be
here soon.”
He smiled and then suddenly pulled his head up and
looked at me and said, “Really?”
I nodded. “Yeah. She needs
a place to stay for a while. She’ll be here sometime this morning.”
“Oh,” he said. He lay back, but I could feel that
his body wasn’t nearly as relaxed as it had been before; he finally said,
“Shoot! I really should get going. I’m supposed to train with Sam this
morning.”
I knew he hadn’t just suddenly remembered his
appointment with Sam. I knew it was more because he was in no way ready to meet
my mother. I was perfectly okay with that. Had she been a “normal” mother, it
would have been too soon…but with my mother, I definitely wanted to wait a
while.
“Okay,” I said, kissing his chest. I lifted my head
so he could sit up.
He looked around the room and said, “Are our clothes
still in the kitchen?”
I laughed but I felt warm all over when I remembered
us taking them off. “Yeah,” I told him. He turned to face me and kissed me
again, hard that time. It was like he was trying to give me one that would
last. Then he said, “I’m going to take off after I get dressed. Lock the chain
on the door when I leave.”
“Okay.” Once again it warmed my heart to know that
he cared.
I got up after he left and showered. I was still
lost in the afterglow of the previous night and couldn’t focus on much else so
I was moving kind of slow. I got a text from my mother telling me her bus would
be in at ten a.m. I got that knot back in the pit of my stomach that never went
away when she went around. I was always waiting to see what she was going to do
next. It was rarely ever good. I finished dressing and went out to clean up the
apartment. It wasn’t ever too messy with just me there, but I picked up my
clothes from the previous night out of the
“Yep.”
We lay like that, plastered together by our own
sweat and our limbs and my sheets tangled, kissing and touching and falling in
and out of sleep for hours before both of us finally landed in dreamland for
the night.
CHAPTER
SIX
I woke up the next morning still glowing from the
night. Before I was fully awake I told myself not to be disappointed if he was
gone. What we had wasn’t a relationship…it was really, really hot sex . I honestly expected
Paul to be gone. I peeked open one eye and saw him
next to me. He had his back to me and I slid my arm down across his chest and
wriggled my body up against his back. I found his warm neck and kissed it.
He reached up and covered the hand that was on his
chest with one of his and rolled over toward me. He still had his eyes closed,
but he was smiling and I was already craving his lips. I pressed mine to his
and he kissed me back. It was morning breath of the sexiest kind. He pulled
open his eyes, then, and looked at me.
“Hey,” he said in that sexy, throaty voice.
“Hey.”
He reached down and pat his
belly with one hand. “You fed me too much last night.”
“I tried to work it off you,” I said with a smile.
“Mm, yes you did,” he said. “But…I have to lose
seven pounds before the weigh-in for the fight, so you can’t cook anything else
for me before that.”
“Okay, but don’t forget to eat healthy. If you
starve yourself, you’re starving that much-needed muscle too.”
“Spoken like a true trainer,” he said with a smile.
“Or just someone who really likes the muscle,” I
said.
“You can help me work off the seven pounds, just to
make sure it’s all fat and no muscle…if you find the time.”
“That would be my pleasure,” I said. “I am quite the
trainer, you know.”
“Oh I know,” he said in a low voice that gave me
butterflies in my belly. “Sexiest damned trainer I ever had.” He kissed me
again. This one more passionate than the last and for some reason my brain
chose that very second to remind me that my mother was on her way. Ugh!
When we broke the kiss I said, “My mother will be
here soon.”
He smiled and then suddenly pulled his head up and
looked at me and said, “Really?”
I nodded. “Yeah. She needs
a place to stay for a while. She’ll be here sometime this morning.”
“Oh,” he said. He lay back, but I could feel that
his body wasn’t nearly as relaxed as it had been before; he finally said,
“Shoot! I really should get going. I’m supposed to train with Sam this
morning.”
I knew he hadn’t just suddenly remembered his
appointment with Sam. I knew it was more because he was in no way ready to meet
my mother. I was perfectly okay with that. Had she been a “normal” mother, it
would have been too soon…but with my mother, I definitely wanted to wait a
while.
“Okay,” I said, kissing his chest. I lifted my head
so he could sit up.
He looked around the room and said, “Are our clothes
still in the kitchen?”
I laughed but I felt warm all over when I remembered
us taking them off. “Yeah,” I told him. He turned to face me and kissed me
again, hard that time. It was like he was trying to give me one that would
last. Then he said, “I’m going to take off after I get dressed. Lock the chain
on the door when I leave.”
“Okay.” Once again it warmed my heart to know that
he cared.
I got up after he left and showered. I was still
lost in the afterglow of the previous night and couldn’t focus on much else so
I was moving kind of slow. I got a text from my mother telling me her bus would
be in at ten a.m. I got that knot back in the pit of my stomach that never went
away when she went around. I was always waiting to see what she was going to do
next. It was rarely ever good. I finished dressing and went out to clean up the
apartment. It wasn’t ever too messy with just me there, but I picked up my
clothes from the previous night out of the
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