cut himself into tiny pieces. One part to feel this and let himself get lost in the physical pleasure of it all. The other parts to watch her in all her glory as she truly let herself go.
“Yes.” The word came out as a growl as she slammed down on him. “Again.”
He continued to mutter encouragement, more and more guttural as she rode him. She became wilder with every demand he made.
She sobbed, and he was afraid his heart would beat out of his chest when she finally built herself up to a peak, calling his name as she ground down against him one last time.
He hooked his hands over her shoulders and kept her in place as her orgasm triggered his. He yanked her against his chest, burying his face in her neck as he continued to thrust even after he was empty.
Finally, they both stilled. Neither of them said anything as she laid her head on his shoulder, and he kept her pressed to him so tightly it had to be hard for her to breathe.
He couldn’t bear to separate from her, even knowing the thought was juvenile. He drove the rest of the short distance to his apartment with her in his lap. He’d worry about talking his way out of it if he had to.
She never said a word as he pulled all the way inside the garage and took the interior steps up to his apartment, still carrying her.
She seemed dazed, so he didn’t push it as he showered them both off and laid down with her in his bed.
It had been the best sex of his life by far. It was understandable that neither of them had words to talk it out.
What words could be said about the connection they’d just shared?
As his eyes slid closed, Baby told himself again that her silence was a natural response to what they’d shared.
Then why did the silence seem like it was screaming goodbye?
Chapter Thirty
Baby took Quinn to the Frontier Diner for brunch the next morning.
She still wasn’t talking.
She was talking, but it was obvious things were going on in her mind that she wasn’t saying. Her smile looked a little bit off. Her movements had always been stiff and precise on any given day, but this morning as he’d watched her get dressed, they’d seemed doubly so.
The diner wasn’t particularly crowded. A lot of people were out doing their Black Friday shopping or just staying home to enjoy a day off. Wavy wasn’t working, so at least he could concentrate totally on Quinn and not have to chat with his sister. They sat down in the far corner booth. The teenage waitress brought them both coffee.
“So, are you going to talk to me?” he asked after handing her the sugar she would put in her coffee.
“Have I not been talking to you?”
“I know there’s something on your mind, and I would like you to tell me what it is.”
He wanted to know everything in the world there was to know about this woman. He wanted to spend the rest of his life understanding all her intricacies. All her silences and their nuances.
It was too soon— impossibly too soon— to talk to her about it, but that didn’t make a bit of difference in how he felt.
“You have some big adjustments ahead of you, like we talked about. Good, important changes. What time are you meeting with Charlie today?”
“One o’clock. She said the evaluation would take a good two or three hours.”
Quinn smiled. “You’re about to get some real answers and a solid plan of action to help you overcome this.”
The waitress came back, and they ordered their breakfast. Baby grabbed Quinn’s hand as soon as the waitress left.
“Hey. What’s going on? You were acting strange last night.”
She flushed bright red.
“Last night was...” Her mouth opened and closed rapidly like a fish. Evidently, she was unable to get out the rest of the words.
“If you are about to utter anything except amazing or mind-blowing, you and I might have to fight.”
She grimaced and shook her head. “I was out of control last night.”
“I think we both were, in the best possible way.”
“That’s not who I am,” she said.
“I disagree. I think that’s very much who you are. Or who you are when you allow yourself to let your guard down.”
He could almost see her withdraw in on herself. “When I let my guard down, things start to fall apart.”
He reached over and took her hand in his.