I turned my head to look up at his shadowed face. I was frustrated. Beyond frustrated. “’You’d slide right into me with ease’ hot and bothered.”
Braden groaned at the blatantly sexual imagery I created to make him as frustrated as I felt. “This was a bad idea.”
“You started it.” I grumbled, grabbing his hands to remove them from my breasts. “We better check on the kids.”
“I need a minute.”
I reached behind me and pressed my hand against his hard on. “Hmm, so you do.”
“Jocelyn,” he warned, removing my hand.
“Not so funny is it when the shoe is on the other foot?” I pulled away from him and he immediately jerked me back into him, nuzzling my neck.
“I’ll make it up to you tonight,” he promised.
***
“You’re seriously not going to kiss me goodnight?” I frowned at Beth as I sat on her bed.
It was a few hours later, Ellie and Adam and Marco and Hannah had picked up their kids, and Braden and I had put Luke to bed. Beth finally followed an hour later.
It was nine o’ clock at night and as much as I adored the heck out of her, I was ready for my kid to go to sleep.
I did, however, want a kiss first.
But apparently Beth didn’t take too kindly to Braden’s little trick.
“Will you give me a kiss if I tell you that you don’t need to give me foot rubs after all?”
Finally she turned her head on the pillow to look at me. “It would only be fair since you cheated.”
“Technically your dad cheated.”
“Hey,” he said coming into the room. “I didn’t cheat.”
Beth pouted. “It was almost like cheating.”
I tickled her belly. “You’re just mad because you didn’t come up with it first.”
She giggled despite herself and I knew we were forgiven.
I leaned down for a kiss and a hug, holding her for a minute longer than usual as she wrapped her little arms around my neck. “Night, baby,” I whispered.
“Night, Momma,” she said.
I got up and let Braden kiss her goodnight. The two of us stood in her doorway for a second, watching her pull her duvet right up to her ear as she turned onto her side, getting comfy. I switched off her light and we closed the door behind us.
I looked up at Braden and shivered at the heat in his eyes.
“I’ll lock up,” he said, his voice low. “You go upstairs and wait for me.”
My skin flushed with excitement. I grinned in anticipation. “We’re having an early night?”
“A long night,” he corrected, leaning down to kiss me softly. “You’re going to be fucking exhausted by the time I’m done with you.”
“Yay.” I grinned back and he chuckled.
While Braden went downstairs to lock up the house, I went upstairs to get changed into a nighty that my husband bought me after I told him I was pregnant. It was a silk nighty in ice blue and it covered my bump but was really low cut and snug around my boobs. My boobs were usually a very decent handful and were now more so and very tender.