Bewitching You(28)

Laura appeared from behind and swung the door open all the way. “Thank you, Mother,” she said, gritting her teeth. Rodney Dangerfield was doing naked cartwheels in her mind.

After giving Laura her best stern look, Penny backed up into the hallway and listened in. The two murmured back and forth in angry voices, but Penny kept her attention on what was said underneath. Herbert thought Laura’s skin looked soft and wanted to touch it. Laura thought the grey in his hair was kind of sexy. Herbert’s feelings were hurt that Laura kept pulling these pranks on him. If she’d only settle down for once, maybe he could gather the courage to ask her out. Laura was scared to death that he was going to ask her out.

Laura slammed the door on him, stomped back into the den and slammed that door as well.

“Are you happy, Mother?” she yelled from the other side.

The wheels spun in Penny’s head. Oh, she was happy all right. Her daughter wasn’t such a helpless case after all.





Chapter Twelve



Sofia followed him into the guest bedroom. Nervous. Sex in the light of day was much different than sex by moonlight. He was going to be able to see everything. Every flaw. Why had she opened her big mouth earlier, saying he could do whatever he wanted to her? Was she so naïve not to realize he’d want her naked in the bed?

Oh, boy.

“Come here.” He sat on the edge and pulled her to him. His hands slowly slid up her skirt to her panties. The granny panties, for the love of Pete. How humiliating. She really needed to do laundry…and buy some less pathetic underwear.

He didn’t seem to notice as he caressed her inner thighs and stared into her eyes with unadulterated lust.

Holy cow. Her hands trembled slightly, she noticed, when she placed them on his shoulders.

His strong, broad shoulders, firm to the touch.

The man was perfect from head to toe, which was why she was still standing there. Seeing him naked in the daylight was so going to be worth it.

As though reading her thoughts, he tugged his shirt over his head and tossed it to the ground. “Your turn.”

Removing her top wouldn’t be a problem, she supposed. Her breasts were one part of her body she was proud of. She pulled her shirt over her head and was happy to see she’d put on the sheer white lace bra today. At least there was that.

Gray seemed pretty happy about it too. He brushed his thumb over her nipple until it was hard and slid his tongue across the lace.

Heat rushed down from her stomach to slide between her thighs.

He reached around her back, found the latch to her bra and unsnapped the material. The pretty lace thing dropped to the floor and the warmth of his hands replaced it. He massaged, kissed and suckled, arousing Sofia so much that her knees almost buckled underneath her.

“Why don’t you lie down?” he said gruffly.

Sofia shook her head, not ready yet. She raked her fingers through the hair at his temples and leaned her forehead against his.

He began to unbutton her skirt. Five buttons, thank God. This should take him a bit.

She sucked in her stomach as her nerves quaked and her body shivered.

“Why are you nervous, Sofia?” He stopped at the third button and settled his hands on her hips. “What’s wrong?”

She gulped down. “I’m not as thin as what you’re used to, am I?”

His sexy, dark gaze rolled over her. “Trust me, sugar—if I weren’t crazy, in-over-my-head attracted to you, I wouldn’t be undressing you right now, I wouldn’t have made love to you last night, and I wouldn’t get a hard-on just watching you walk down the hallway.”

“Oh.” That was nice to hear. But… “You can agree, though, that you’d still be with her if you hadn’t found out about her sleeping with your brother, right?”

“Probably.”

“Oh.” Not so nice to hear.

“But I’d be miserable because I wouldn’t have the smart, sweet, incredibly sexy woman from my dreams in my arms. If I’d only known you were real, Sofia. Had I realized that it were really possible to be as happy as I was in those dreams, I would’ve left her and I would’ve found you. I promise you that.”

A tear brimmed and rushed down her cheek, and she swiped at it. Why was she so emotional lately?

“But you haven’t seen me naked in the daylight yet,” she warned.

“I have, over and over again, and I want to see you again if you don’t mind.”

Sofia imagined he was right. He had seen her multiple times. Just not in granny panties. She finished unbuttoning her skirt and slid it and the panties down at the same time.

There. That was that.

Then she dared look into his eyes to see his expression. They were heavily lidded as he slid his hands over her waist and down her hips to her thighs and back up again.

“So goddamn sexy, Sofia,” he said huskily. “I want you.” He looked up and met her eyes. “Can I have you?”

She nodded. He could have whatever he wanted, if he kept calling her sexy. Her body, her heart, whatever. Anyway, she loved the guy, and in such a short time. As if her emotions were running on overdrive when it came to him.

Full speed ahead without brakes. Just a sputter now and then, when her insecurities got the best of her.

She followed his lead as he climbed back on the mattress and pulled her on top of him. She straddled his hips and felt him grow hard underneath his boxer briefs.

Instinctively, she pressed her heat down against him, wanting more.

He groaned and tugged his boxers out from under her. “Now I can feel you. Do it again.”

Sofia was wet, she could tell by how easy it was to slide against him, almost allowing him to enter her at one point. Which wouldn’t be a bad thing. She’d been on the pill since she was sixteen. Her mother had insisted on it. Just in case some * wanted to get frisky. Sofia wouldn’t end up pregnant and alone.

Gray seemed to be enjoying how she worked her body. He bit into his bottom lip, and his hands grasped tightly to her waist.

Sofia took delight in having the power to please him. She leaned over, pressed her breasts against his chest, and brushed her lips against his.

They kissed slowly, seductively, as he lazily brought one hand up her back until it was bracing the nape of her neck. Then he deepened the kiss, doing with his tongue what Sofia knew he wanted to do with his erection.

Why make him wait? The tip of him was right there, ready to enter. It teased as he prodded up against her. Sofia decided to take it a step further, and maneuvered around until the head of him slipped inside of her.

“Sofia.” He exhaled. “Baby, I need to put on a condom.”

She slid down farther, taking him as far as she could. No pain this time. Just warmth that flowed through her body. She sat up slowly, bracing her hands against his chest and inching him the rest of the way until she was straddling him again.

He closed his eyes and inhaled some steady breaths. “This feels really good. Please tell me you’re protected.”

Sofia nodded. “The pill. I’m on the pill.” She pushed off him slightly and sat back down.

He groaned.

“Did I do that right?”

“Oh, yeah. But do you mind if I get on top?”

The manly-man act again. Wonderful. The man had control issues, for sure. Wants to drive her car. Wants to drive her. “What if I want to drive?”

He stared at her like she’d lost her mind. “Trust me, I won’t disappoint you.” He sat up and gripped onto her backside. “Hold on.”

Sofia wrapped her arms around his neck and decided to go along for the ride. He flipped her over onto her back and immediately thrust deep inside of her. She gasped and felt instant and surprising bliss.

One of his hands was still on her bottom and the other braced against the mattress beside her head. He withdrew halfway and glided back in several times in a steady rhythm. Warm pressure built inside her. On the brink of release, she pressed her head against the mattress and gripped his shoulders.

“There’s one more place I want to show you.” He gripped her calf and eased it over his shoulder. “My flexible little cheerleader.”

“You got to be kidding me.” She moaned, relishing in the impossible tightness, how he filled her completely.

Gray kissed her lips and whispered, “Come for me.”

At his words, she cried out his name, pouring out her pent-up desire, a raging fire burned from her belly to her toes. And he reacted, jerking, filling her with his warmth.

He fell on the bed beside her and pulled her into his arms. “Not disappointed I drove, are you?”

Sofia shook her head, taking delight in the aftershocks.

~ * ~

Gray held her limp body in his arms for several minutes, happy he was able to please her to the point of exhaustion. If she asked for more, he’d give it to her. He’d give her anything.