“We can get on with our morning,” he agreed.
“Awesome,” I muttered, rolling my eyes at Shy, but when they hit Landon, I smiled.
He smiled back.
“Travelin’man!” Tex the crazy coffee guy boomed. “Your drink is gettin’ cold. Get your ass over here and get it ’cause I’m not makin’ another one unless you pay for it.”
Shy gave me a squeeze then gave his brother a look that told him to behave the thirty seconds Shy would be gone, and he sauntered over to get the last coffee.
I gave Lan another smile and sat my booty back down on the couch.
Lan folded his long body into the armchair.
“Uh, Tab, just so you know,” he started. “That time it’s gonna take for you to prove you intend to go the distance with Park just got a lot f**kin’ shorter.”
His words hit me in a nice place. I sent another smile at him and even I knew it was huge.
And happy.
* * *
I looked up at Shy as Shy looked down at me.
We were in my bed. We were naked. I was on my back, one leg wrapped around Shy’s hip, one leg extended, pressed up against his torso, ankle to his shoulder. Shy’s h*ps were between mine, one hand gliding up my shin at his chest, one hand in the bed, his c**k moving inside me.
“Gotta say, baby,” he murmured. “You’re beautiful always but you’re seriously f**kin’ beautiful when you’re takin’ me.”
God.
God.
I loved it when he said stuff like that while he was making love to me.
“Gotta say, darlin’,” I murmured back huskily. “You’re handsome always, but you’re seriously handsome when you’re giving it to me.”
His eyes, already hot, scorched into me even as his mouth curved and his hand moved down, down, down, until it curved around my thigh. His thumb found me as he whispered, “Let’s see how much more beautiful you can be.”
Then he pressed and circled. I moaned, my neck arched, my leg around him tensed, and his h*ps drove harder and faster between mine.
“Beauty, unbelievable,” he growled.
I tipped my half-mast eyes to him, his face darker, his eyes so hot I thought the bed would combust, and he was right.
Beauty, unbelievable.
Not me.
Him.
His thumb pressed deeper, circled faster as his h*ps pumped harder, and I whispered urgently, “Shy.”
“Come without me, honey. This time I wanna watch.”
Free to do as he asked, I did and it was spectacular.
It was only when I was coming down that his thumb left me. He rolled us so he was on his back, I was astride him, and both his hands framed my head, moving it so he could look at me.
“Take me there,” he ordered roughly. “I wanna watch you move on me.”
Without delay, wanting to give him what he wanted, I sat up and gave him what he wanted. Doing it slowly at first, then faster, harder, my hands moving on his chest, my eyes never leaving his face, my excitement building again as I watched what I was giving him build, then his hands at my h*ps yanked me down, kept me full of him, and he gave it to me.
As he felt his orgasm, I dropped to him, chest to chest, my fingers drifting over his skin, my mouth in his neck, my tongue darting out to taste.
He closed his arms around me and he kissed me on my forehead. His head righted, I shoved my face in his neck, and we lay there for a while, silently.
I didn’t know what Shy was thinking about, but I took that time to savor the last forty-five minutes. Then I took more time savoring my most favorite parts. Since all of the parts were savor-worthy, this took a while.
After that, my mind moved to my day, post coffee with two badass brothers.
The good news was, my apartment was mine again. They hadn’t even put in an ad, so they were happy for me to sign another lease.
The bad news was they expected me to sign a twelve-month lease. I was down with that, kind of. I needed someplace to stay at the present moment and, with my job in the air, I was kind of stuck staying where I was rather than apartment hunting and explaining how I’d pay rent if I didn’t have income. That said, I felt it might be time to move onto something a tad bit nicer, and if they’d switch to month-to-month and I got my employment sorted, I’d have the opportunity to do that in the not-too-distant future.
Shy wasn’t down with it, like, at all.
Although I’d asked Shy for time to get my stuff straightened out, which would give the brothers time to reconnect without my listening ear, Shy had refused to give it to me. This kinda freaked me out, because it pissed me off and I was confronted yet again, in less than twenty-four hours, with the balancing act I had to perform to be with a biker.
At least that was what I thought until Shy explained it to me.
“Waited for you for four years, Tabby, baby. Four. Spent a lot of that time thinkin’ I’d never have you. Now I got you, not even for a day, I’m not big on lettin’ you go. Give me that for now, yeah? Make your calls here.”
That was sweet as well as loving, so I gave him that.
We quickly hit another danger zone when he heard me talking on the phone about the lease.
I knew he didn’t like what he was hearing when he pulled my phone out of my hand, muttered into it, “She’ll call you back,” then his finger hit the screen and he looked at me.
Feeling pressure building in my head at this maneuver, I opened my mouth to, say, maybe, scream, but he beat me to speaking.
“A twelve-month lease is not gonna happen. Your place is okay but only okay,” he declared. “It’s too small, I’m not thrilled about the ’hood it’s in, and this works, babe, we’re movin’ on together and no way it’s big enough for us both. I’m not waitin’ out a twelve-month lease. I’m not puttin’ up with what I don’t want for twelve months. And I don’t want you in a place that’s not good enough for you for twelve months. So you are not stayin’ there for twelve months. Tell them month-to-month. If they flinch, they deal with me.”
I didn’t like the sound of that, but in order not to have words with him in front of his brother, I did as I was told. They flinched. Shy heard it, took the phone from me again, I glared at him then glared at his smiling brother who was privy to all this, seeing as we were back at Shy’s place, and then I listened to Shy try and reason with them.
This didn’t work so Shy said in the phone, “Right. You’ll be seein’ me in thirty minutes and I suggest you take that time to think real hard on that decision.”