His laughter was out before he could stop it. “Seriously? Frosting on my face makes you happy?”
“Well, that and the fact that you were actually eating the cupcakes!” she started to laugh with him. “I couldn’t believe after all the stuff I baked here last weekend that you never ate any of it! I’ve never met anyone with that kind of willpower!”
“Yeah, well…obviously I’m not as strong as I think I am.”
Leanna glanced over Brody’s shoulder at the plate of cupcakes. “Four? You ate four of them?” she asked even as she continued to laugh.
“I probably would have had a fifth if you hadn’t come out here, so…”
“Brody! That’s insane! You’ll make yourself sick!”
“Somehow I doubt it. They’re tiny. Four of them were the equivalent to a decent piece of cake. I’ll be fine.”
“Oh, my God…if I ate four cupcakes, I would not feel well at all. And certainly not at this time of night.”
He hadn’t considered that.
Having that much sugar when he really needed to get some sleep wasn’t the smartest decision he could have made.
And yet he didn’t regret a thing.
Okay, that wasn’t completely true. He regretted missing out on a night with Leanna. Right now they should be tangled up together in his bed, under the blankets, slightly exhausted from making love. And instead, they were in his kitchen with him covered in crumbs and frosting after he worked way too late.
Leanna yawned again and he knew he needed to get her back to bed.
“Come on,” he said, gently taking her by the shoulders and turning her around. “It’s late, you’re tired, and you should be sleeping.”
“You’re coming with me, right?” she asked, glancing over her shoulder at him as she started to walk away.
Even though he wasn’t really ready to go to sleep, he wouldn’t deny her this. “Of course. Let me turn off the living room light and we’ll head back to our room.” The words were out without him even thinking about it and they completely stopped him for the barest of moments. Hopefully Leanna didn’t notice and he walked over and turned out the light before facing her. By then, it was fairly dark–the only light coming in from the outside–and he couldn’t read her expression.
Thankfully.
Walking into the bedroom first, Leanna turned on one of the bedside lamps before crawling onto the bed. That’s when Brody first noticed what she was wearing–it was a deep plum color with tiny straps and it barely covered her bottom. And when she crawled onto the bed, he saw she had nothing on underneath–no thong, no panties.
Her name came out as a hoarse plea and she grinned at him as she lay down.
“I did promise to change into something sexy to greet you at the door, but you were late.” She shrugged and one delicate strap slid off her shoulder. “And when I went to greet you in the kitchen, you were busy eating way too many cupcakes.”
“They weren’t too many…”
“I was beginning to think I bought this nightie for nothing,” she said with a dramatic sigh.
Tugging his tie off, he tossed it onto the floor. Next came his shoes and belt. Stepping closer to the bed, he watched as she toyed with the fallen strap. “Personally, I’m very grateful for it. I’d love to buy you one in every color because it looks spectacular on you.”
Looking very pleased with herself, she pushed up onto her knees and made her way back toward the edge of the bed. “Why thank you.” Her hands smoothed up over his stomach and chest before she began unbuttoning his shirt. “I did have a whole welcome home thing I had worked on all day, but I promise to show it to you another time.”
He moaned when she parted his shirt and ran her hands over his bare chest. “You have no idea how sorry I am.”
“I guess you’ll just have to make it up to me somehow.” And with a sexy grin, she pushed his shirt from his shoulders.
“Whatever you want, it’s yours,” he said gruffly, flinging his shirt to the floor before quickly stripping off his trousers and boxers.
Her smile grew. “I just want you in this bed with me. Anything other than that is completely up to you.” She lay back down and looked like his every fantasy, the tiny scrap of silk she was wearing rode high enough up to tease and tempt him.
Reaching out, Brody skimmed one hand up her leg from ankle to thigh. “I told myself I was going to let you sleep, that I wouldn’t bother you. When I came in here earlier, all I wanted to do was climb into bed and kiss my way down your body.”
“I’m wide awake now,” she said breathlessly, knowing he was as turned on as she was. “And I really love it when you kiss me everywhere.”
He didn’t need to be asked twice.
In the blink of an eye, he was stretched out on top of her–kissing her lips, capturing her moans and sighs as she wrapped her arms and legs around him. It was both arousing and soothing at the same time.
Wet kisses.
Deep kisses.
Soft kisses.
On and on and on and he knew he’d never get enough.
But he also knew he could come back to them. Right now, there were so many other places that he was dying to taste and when he lifted his head and gave her a wicked grin, she licked her lips in response and whispered, “Please.”
Slowly, he made his way along her jaw, nipping at her earlobe, and then her shoulder.
Arching her back under him, she hummed with pleasure.
Moving a little farther down, he teased one nipple with his tongue when gently caressing the other with his hand.
Leanna moaned again. “I love it when you do that…”
Her admission made him smile.
And while he could have very easily set up camp right there for a little while, there were other places he wanted to give attention to. Every time he stopped in a particular spot, he’d get her writhing beneath him.
“Mmm…that too,” she panted. “I love that.”
But when he got to the spot he most wanted and did settle in, it took very little time to have her crying out his name.
“Yes, Brody,” she whispered, her hands anchored in his hair. “I love that…love that…” she chanted over and over. “Love that…love you…”
Maybe he hadn’t heard her right, but it didn’t matter. All that mattered was making her feel good before making his way back up her body and sealing her cries of release with his mouth on hers. They were both a little frantic by then and when he rolled them over so Leanna was on top of him, he was more than ready for a little pleasure of his own.
Chapter 13
Life is what you bake of it.
“So…wait. They canceled again?”
Leanna nodded. “They canceled again. Third time.”
“Sweetie, I hate to say this, but…”
“But do I think it’s not his parents that are canceling, but Brody just saying that because I have a big damn mouth while in the throes of an orgasm? Yes!”
Josie and Skylar looked at each other before they gave her sympathetic looks.
“Ugh…me and my big mouth,” Lea sighed, dropping her head onto her desk. “Why did I have to say it then?”