He turned as Dani's head appeared above the stall. "Oh, there you are," she said, smiling when she spied him. "I can't find my T-shirt. Did you..." Dani paused, eyes widening as he started back along the stalls. "Is that my T-shirt?"
"Yes," Decker admitted on a mutter as he reentered the stall to find her standing with shorts on, bra in hand, and at least half a dozen pieces of straw sticking out of her tangled hair in different directions. "Sam came looking to see if you wanted to go shopping. I dressed quickly to stop her from finding us and donned your T-shirt by mistake. Sorry," he added, though it came out muffled as he tugged it off over his head. "Here you are."
Decker held it out, but Dani was too busy laughing to take it, which just added to his disgruntlement until he noticed how it set her br**sts bouncing. The frown left his face as his eyes locked on the two moving targets.
"Oh no," Dani said suddenly, her laughter dying. "Don't you be looking at me with your eyes all glowy silver, Mr. Pimms. We have to stop now, I want to go shopping. Actually, I need to now that you've stretched my top out," she added, slipping on her bra and reaching back to do it up.
Decker remained silent, watching the way her br**sts rose slightly as she performed the maneuver, barely hearing her words when she added, "Besides, it must be past noon at least, and I want to make sure the phone didn't arrive while we were out here messing around."
"Six," Decker said absently, his eyes traveling over her body as she finished with her bra and took the T-shirt from his hands.
"Six what?" Dani asked absently as she tugged the cloth over her head.
"It's after six," he explained. "Six-thirty actually."
"What?" she squawked as her head popped out of the neckline of the T-shirt and into view. Pausing then, she stared at him wide-eyed and then said uncertainly, "You're joking."
Decker shook his head, a little surprised by her shock.
"Dani, we've made love at least ten times," he pointed out, not adding that it had been in several interesting and innovative positions he'd never imagined. Decker had thought he'd done it all before sex became too dull for him to bother with, but Dani was very creative, especially with a saddle.
Her eyebrows had risen with surprise. "That many? It's all kind of a blur for me after the fifth time." She shook her head and then finished tugging her T-shirt into place, muttering, "You must have a Viagra pump where your heart should be."
"It's the life mate thing," Decker informed her. "I gather most life mates are insatiable when they find each other."
Dani didn't comment. She was peering down at her shirt and frowning at its new Deckerized shape. It had been stretched out so much, the neckline was pretty much indecent, and it draped her like a blouse rather than the snug fit it had been. Clucking under her tongue, she tugged at the neckline, trying to make it more acceptable, and then pulled it off one shoulder so that at least it didn't reveal the silky cups of her bra anymore. She then tied a knot in the hem at her hip so that it looked like some sort of eighties fashion style. Apparently deciding that was the best she could do, Dani then tried to rush around him and out of the stall, but he caught her arm, forcing her to a halt.
"Decker, let me go," she complained. "I have to go see if the phone is back. "
"You have straw in your hair," he said with exasperation and quickly plucked the bits out and then tried to smooth the wild mass into some sort of order so she wouldn't be completely humiliated if anyone saw her.
Decker then caught her face between his hands and pressed a kiss to her impatient lips before releasing her.
"Thank you," Dani murmured, and ran for the door as if afraid that he might start ravishing her again... and that she might respond despite her worries of the moment. It wasn't that silly a notion. Decker's body was beyond satiated, and yet just the smell of her as he'd neared and the sight of her half naked had been enough to wake little Decker. He'd been hard-pressed to keep the kiss he'd given her to a quick peck and hadn't missed the way desire had flamed in her own eyes before she'd rushed off. They were definitely life mates.
Sighing happily, Decker bent to snatch up his T-shirt and tugged it on as he headed after her.
Chapter Eleven
"Sorry we took so long," Dani gasped, rushing up to the small table in the food court where Sam sat patiently waiting. She dropped the half a dozen bags holding her purchases with relief. "Decker insisted I needed more than just the T-shirt, shorts, and underwear and made me try on oodles of clothes."
"That's all right, I just got here myself," Sam said as Dani finally settled in the seat opposite her. "I only intended to get more sheets since the ones on the beds now are all that are at the house. Then I realized the half a dozen towels I grabbed from my place last night weren't going to last long, and then I thought of linens for the kitchen, and..." She shrugged wryly. "A salesperson had to help me carry it all to the car. I just bought a coffee and sat down not two minutes ago myself."
Dani nodded and asked, "I don't suppose anyone called from the house to say my phone was back?"
"No," Sam said solemnly. "I would have hunted you down and told you."
Dani nodded. After rushing from the barn to the house and learning her phone hadn't yet returned, she'd reluctantly agreed to the shopping trip. It wasn't that she hadn't wanted to come, but she'd feared the phone would arrive the minute she left. However, after Mortimer had promised to call Sam the moment it arrived, Dani had allowed Decker to chivvy her into the shower and then hustle her into Sam's car to come to the mall.
They'd split up on reaching the mall, Sam heading off in search of linens for the house and she and Decker popping in to pick up a couple of spare outfits. At least that had been Dani's plan, until Decker saw the one small bag of items she'd purchased. He'd immediately insisted she'd need more clothes than that. He'd then insisted she try on each item and model it for him before buying it.
The whole business had left her annoyed and flustered until Decker had slid into the dressing room to "help" her get out of the last outfit. The mall's air conditioner was obviously on overdrive because Dani's ni**les were still erect from the cool air that had assaulted her as he'd stripped the clothes away.
She shivered and pretended to fuss with one of the bags as she recalled what he'd done to her in that little room. He'd had to cover her mouth with his hand to muffle her excited cries by the time he'd finally pulled her onto his lap on the chair in the corner and thrust himself into her. It had been terribly exciting. As had waking tangled with him on the floor, stirred from unconsciousness by the salesgirl rapping on the door and asking loudly if she was all right, though exciting wasn't perhaps the right word for that part. Panic-inducing probably fit better.
Dani didn't think her heart was going to survive this... whatever this was she was having with Decker. The man was insatiable... and so was she with him. If they continued like this she was likely to have a heart attack.
"Where's Decker?" Sam asked, bringing her from her thoughts.