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"Dino will hear you if you say cock." She leans close, her voice no more than a whisper.

"Dino's hearing isn't what it used to be." I pull her to my chest. "Besides, you like talking about my cock."

"No," she says with a laugh. "You talk about it way more than I do."

"That might be true but you think about it more than I do."

"I thought about it this morning," she admits as she kisses my cheek. "I've come twice today already, so I'm good."

"My cock wasn't involved in either of those," I point out. "I want in, literally, Elle, I want in."

She taps her finger on her chin. "I suppose I could go over the practice interview for the NYPD I found online while I wait for you."

"There's that f*cking spirit I was looking for."

"You mean fighting spirit, Nolan. The expression is fighting spirit and it doesn't apply here."

"I meant f*cking spirit."

"Because we'll be f*cking?"

I nod. "That's the spirit."

She glances behind me. "Dino heard that. He's looking over here."

"That's because you're stunning." I kiss her lips softly. "I'll be at the shoebox by ten, Ellie."

She takes my key fob when I offer it. "I'll go there and nude study. I might order pizza."

I love when she teases me. I hope that she's teasing me. "Don't let the pizza delivery guy see you naked."

"You're the only man who sees me naked." She pops up to her tiptoes to wrap her arms around my neck. "I like it that way."

I love it that way, and I never want it to change.





Chapter 46


Ellie




"I had no idea that nude pizza was a thing." He pushes his jeans down his legs. "We should do this every Saturday night."

"I'm game." I take a bite of the large cheese pizza I ordered thirty minutes ago. "I hope you like plain cheese. It's my favorite."

"Mine too." He sits on the edge of the bed in his boxer briefs. "It's not technically nude pizza unless we're both totally naked, right?"

I look down at my pale pink bra and panties. I had taken off everything right after the pizza was delivered, but that only lasted three minutes. I pulled my bra and panties back on as I waited for Nolan to arrive.

"I'm a messy eater and I don't want any hot sauce to burn my nipples."

His eyes fall to my bra and the outline of my nipples. "If I haven't told you yet, your nipples are incredible, Ellie. They're pink and puffy and when I suck on them, they get so hard like they're aching for more."

"You make me feel really beautiful."

"You are a stunning woman." His fingers brush over my chin, tilting my head up to his. "I crave you. It's not just your body but all of you. Your mind and your spirit. There's this thing about you, Ellie. It's this sense of goodness that just is in the air whenever you're near. I feel it. I know other people can too. I just want to soak in that and in you."

I lean forward to cup his cheeks in my hands. "You have that too, Nolan. That sense of goodness. I felt it when I first met you. You protect the people you care about and you care about people you don't even know."

His eyes close for a beat. "I haven't always been a good person."

"You are now." I kiss him softly. "The past is the past. What matters is right now and you're a great dad and a wonderful lover and a pretty good boss."

He huffs out a deep laugh. "I'm a pretty good boss? I'm a f*cking fantastic boss."

I kiss him again, harder this time, my tongue skimming over his bottom lip. "You were right. Your employees do bitch about you when you're not around."

"Tell me who." His arms circle me pulling me close. "Tell me their names and I'll fire every last one of them."

I gasp when he opens the clasp of my bra with one hand. "If I tell you all their names there won't be anyone left working for you."

He smiles against my mouth, his breath mingling with mine, his teeth brushing against my bottom lip. "Make me forget all of them, Ellie. Make me forget everyone in the world but you."

***

His mouth eats at mine, his tongue pulling, taking, making me want even more than he's already given me. He f*cked me once on the bed before we took a shower together.

I took him in my mouth as the hot water beat down on us both. He was so close, but he stopped me, yanking me to my feet so he could finger my *. I came in the small space; his name stuck on my lips behind the moan that I couldn't contain.

"Safe," I groan into the kiss. "Are you safe?"

"You know I am," he growls. "I was tested last week. You're safe too."

He told me he wanted to f*ck me without a condom when we were in the shower but I silenced him with a bite to his shoulder. He surged then, pushing two fingers into me while his thumb strummed over my swollen clit.

"Fuck me bare," I whisper with a smile against his lips. "Come inside of me. I want to feel it."

"Christ." He pushes me against the bedroom wall, lifting me up. "I've never done it."