Unbreak My Heart (Unbreak My Heart #1)(79)
“You better go up and get some sleep. I’m just gonna work on my crossword puzzle for a while.”
*
I woke up with Kate tucked in tight against me the next morning, just as someone pushed open our bedroom door.
“I’m just going to grab Iris,” Liz whispered softly, tiptoeing to the edge of the bed. “So you and Katie can get some more sleep.”
“Thanks, Liz,” I murmured as she lifted the smiling baby out of her crib.
She closed the door behind her when she left, and the noise woke Kate just enough that her hips twitched against my morning erection. Shit.
The mornings were always the hardest for me, no pun intended. Kate had no idea how she moved against me before she’d completely wake up. I knew without a doubt that I could have her so hot before she’d finally gotten her wits about her that she’d let me do whatever I wanted…but I didn’t want to start out that way.
She wanted to wait—for whatever reason—and I wanted her to come to me when she was ready. Fucking her before she trusted me fully again would feel fantastic in the moment, but the lasting effects would not be pretty. She wasn’t sure yet, and sex wasn’t going to make up her mind.
Sex made things infinitely better, but it didn’t fix anything. We’d still be right where we started even if I was f*cking her into the mattress every day.
Christ, I needed to stop thinking about sliding into her while she tilted her hips against me.
“God, my head hurts,” Kate rasped, finally waking up fully. “Too much booze.”
I kissed the side of her neck as she raised her hand to cover her eyes.
“You had quite a bit,” I agreed softly. “How’s your stomach?”
“Oddly enough, I have an iron stomach when your spawn isn’t growing inside me.”
I knew the exact moment that she remembered the events of the night before because her entire body went rigid against me.
“What was the fight about?” she whispered, reaching down to grab my arm as I tried to move away.
“Just stupid shit,” I said, relaxing back into her body. “Abraham’s a mean drunk.”
“Not usually,” she argued, her voice calm. “You know I’m going to hear about it when we go downstairs. Wouldn’t you rather I heard it from you?”
“I’d rather you didn’t hear it at all,” I grumbled, pressing my face into her hair.
“It was about me, huh?”
“Not specifically,” I hedged, not willing to hurt her feelings. “It was about past shit with me and you that he can’t seem to let go.”
“I figured.” She sighed. “I’ll talk to him.”
“Don’t,” I ordered, scooting back so she’d lie flat and I could see her face. “Me and you are good, right? You don’t have to defend me to him.”
She opened her mouth to argue, and I covered it with my palm. She looked so cute as her makeup raccoon eyes widened in surprise.
“You don’t have to talk about our relationship to anyone but me,” I told her, taking my hand away so I could kiss her lips. “It’s no one’s business but ours.”
“Do you think he’ll apologize?” she asked hoarsely, clearing her throat.
“Doesn’t matter one way or the other—only thing that matters is us, right? He’ll come around eventually or he’ll learn to keep his mouth shut.”
She wrapped her arms around my torso and pulled me down on top of her, digging her fingers into the skin of my back.
“I’m sorry your birthday was ruined, baby,” I mumbled into her mouth as I kissed her.
“Are you kidding? I had a great time for the first two hours. I’d call that a success,” she retorted with a huge smile.
“Parents are taking care of the kids this morning,” I whispered suggestively, wiggling my eyebrows at her.
“Oh yeah?”
I rocked my hips down once and ground them into hers before pulling back and dropping one hip to the bed at her side. “You wanna curl back up with me and actually sleep in for once?”
Her mouth dropped open in surprise at my words, and she giggled, shaking the entire bed. “Oh yeah,” she whispered, giving me a sultry smile.
We slept until ten a.m., and it was f*cking fantastic.
*
I watched Kate and Bram as they talked quietly across the driveway. Everyone was heading out in a few hours to go home, and even though Kate had treated Bram like normal for the rest of the weekend, I’d known that she was going to corner him at some point.
Even though I’d asked her not to.
I wasn’t pissed about it, though. That was her brother—they had a relationship completely separate from mine and Kate’s. If she needed to clear the air between them, I was all for it. I didn’t want her worrying about that shit, and I knew she had been.
Bram reached up and smoothed Kate’s hair down while they talked, and every once in a while one of them would nod as if agreeing with the other. Their little powwow didn’t last long: About fifteen minutes later, Kate was grinning at Bram as he rubbed at the back of his neck uncomfortably. He turned to walk away and said something over his shoulder, making Kate laugh loudly.
Before Bram knew what was happening, Kate was hopping onto his back—almost knocking him to the ground—and giving him what looked like a really painful noogie while laughing hysterically.