Total pages in book: 98
Estimated words: 95421 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 477(@200wpm)___ 382(@250wpm)___ 318(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 95421 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 477(@200wpm)___ 382(@250wpm)___ 318(@300wpm)
Once we hit the sidewalk, it felt like we’d arrived at the moment of truth.
“Thank you for dinner,” Naomi said. “I had a really good time tonight.”
“Me too.” I caught her eye. “I don’t want it to end yet.”
She gnawed on that lip she’d been nibbling on all evening before speaking again. “The kids will be sleeping, and I wouldn’t want to wake them, but…we could go back to your place?”
I was going to ask, but her suggesting it was so much better. I grinned. “Abso-fucking-lutely.”
Naomi laughed. “You can work the word fuck into anything.”
I brushed hair from her shoulder, then kissed the skin between the thin strap of her dress and her neck. She shivered. “It’s my favorite word. Coincidentally, also my favorite sport.”
“I’m not sure fucking qualifies as a sport.”
I rubbed my nose against hers. “You won’t be saying that tomorrow morning...”
Chapter 23
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DAWSON
The car was quiet on the drive to my place, and I wondered if Naomi was having second thoughts about spending the night.
Even though I’d acted confident about what was going to happen once we got to my apartment, the ball was totally in her court. Naomi was a woman worth waiting for. So if all she wanted was to talk some more, have a drink, and maybe make out a little, I was going to have to find a way to control myself. Even if I wanted her more than a starving dog in a room with a raw steak.
Maybe that wasn’t the best analogy, considering she was vegan, but that was exactly the way she made me feel. And it didn’t even have anything to do with me being in the longest dry spell of my life. No, my hunger for Naomi Heart had less to do with satisfying my own needs and everything to do with my desire to satisfy her. I wanted to make her eyes roll back in her head, make her moan in ecstasy, make her want me as much as I wanted her.
When we arrived at my apartment, I walked in ahead of her so I could flip on the lights. Naomi glanced around.
“Wow, it’s really big.”
I couldn’t stop myself. “I’ll show you bigger...”
She smiled. “And…he’s back.”
“Did I go somewhere?”
“You tell me?” She took a step closer and rested her palms on my chest. “You were awfully quiet in the car. What were you thinking about?”
I looked into her eyes. “I was reminding myself to be a gentleman.”
“Why?”
“Because it’s been a while for you, and my thoughts are anything but gentlemanly when I’m near you.”
Naomi’s arms lifted and hooked around my neck. She ran her fingernails across the back of my hairline. It made goosebumps prickle on my entire torso.
“What if I told you I didn’t want you to be a gentleman?”
My cock swelled. “Then I would say you’re gonna be walking funny tomorrow.”
Naomi smiled. “Do you have condoms?”
“A whole box. Bought ’em earlier today.”
She lifted a brow. “Confident much?”
“Hopeful. Not confident.” I dipped my head and ran my nose along her pulse line. She smelled good enough to eat. “You lied to me about smelling like coconut.”
She lolled her head back, giving me better access. I sucked on her creamy skin. “Not technically. You asked me if I had perfume or hand cream with coconut in it. But I don’t. It’s shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, and body scrub.”
I kissed my way up to her ear and nibbled. “You bought them to drive me nuts?”
“Actually, I bought those to taunt you. I bought the one you haven’t smelled yet to drive you nuts.”
“What haven’t I smelled yet?”
Naomi moved her mouth to my ear and whispered. “The edible coconut oil I rubbed all over the lower half of my body.”
Oh fuck.
That was it. There was no going slow after that.
I scooped her off the floor and tossed her over my shoulder, fireman style.
She giggled. “What are you doing?”
I stalked toward the bedroom. “I’m about to eat my two favorite things: you and coconut. I figured you should be comfortable since I might not ever come up for air.”
I flicked on the lights as I entered, wanting to see every inch of her. At the foot of the bed, I slid her down my body before taking her mouth in a kiss. It was hot and heavy the second it started. Naomi pressed her tits against my chest, and when I tried to pull away to set her down on the bed, she sucked on my tongue.
I’d been dying to make her eyes roll back in her head, yet mine were the first to go. She bit down on my lip, sending an ache of pain rippling through my body and ratcheting the desperation I already felt up to near feral. My hands slid all over her, but when her little hand went to my crotch and squeezed hard, I had to remove it, or I was going to wind up embarrassing myself. “Slow down, babe.”