her head and drew in a few calming breaths. Last night had been wonderful—so damn wonderful. From the making of signs and cocktails, to every sinful, wicked thing that followed. She didn’t want it to be a mistake, but after so many years of not dating, she wasn’t sure what to do.
“You okay?” Matthew’s deep baritone voice was whiskey rough with sleep and the intimate sound made her body flush with heat.
“Yeah,” she settled back down in bed and he moved closer before tucking her naked body against his more snuggly. God, this was more than nice. She could get used to this.
“Still all right that I stayed?” he asked.
She rolled onto her back and looked up at him. He had that sleepy look that made even a hard-edged, handsome man like him seem cuddly; the thought made her smile.
He traced the smile on her lips with his finger. “What’s so funny?” He grinned back at her.
“Nothing.”
“Tell me.” He spoke so gently, so warmly that she couldn’t resist anything he would have asked of her right then.
“It’s just…” She reached up to stroke his jaw, feeling the slightest stubble starting to grow there. “You’re so intense, so masculine and sexy, and I love that. But I like this side of you too.”
“This side?” he asked.
“Yeah, your cuddly side.”
Matthew laughed. “Cuddly? Me?” He rolled onto his back, pulling her on top of him and she giggled as she made herself a human blanket.
“Now, this is nice,” he murmured.
“It is.” She agreed as she felt his cock harden between her thighs. She moved above him before gripping his shaft and slowly taking him inside her. Her body felt full in the best way.
Matthew gazed up at her with lust, but there was something gentle in his eyes—a sweet sort of desire that made her chest ache.
They made love slowly, gently. His hands rested on her hips when she leaned down to kiss him and their tongues gently dueled as he thrust inside her over and over. For a long blissful moment, she truly forgot everything outside of this gorgeous man and the bed they shared. There was only them and the magic of the heat and passion igniting between them.
Love is friendship that has caught fire.
Aubree melted into him as an orgasm rolled through her, slow and deep. The aftershocks echoed in a sonorous way that made her blood sing. He came seconds later, breathing her name with quiet reverence.
“Christ, you are amazing.” Matthew murmured against her lips as she settled beside him.
“Thanks, so are you.” She nuzzled his body and rested one of her palms on the warm skin where she could feel his muscled chest.
“What time do you have to be at work?” he asked. His hands ran up and down her back, stroking her in the most soothing, seductive way. Her body hummed with delicious warmth as his body relaxed every muscle in her. She hadn’t felt this calm and sated in…well she couldn’t remember how long.
“Umm… Today is Saturday, so not at all.”
“Good. I was worried you might have to work on the weekends.”
“Sometimes,” she admitted. “But that’s rare.”
Matthew pressed a kiss to the shell of her ear. “How about we spend the day together? I want to know everything about you.”
She laughed. “You can’t learn everything about each other in one day.”
“No, but we can try.” He kissed her ear again and she let all rational thoughts that might have made her say no vanish.
“I surrender.” She gasped when his hands tickled her waist.
She escaped and ducked into the bathroom where she frantically brushed her teeth and ran a quick makeup remover under her eyes and a brush through her hair. When she looked decent, she pulled on her shower robe and peeped through the open door. Matthew was lying on his back in her bed, hands folded under his head in the sheets pulling low on his waist. Ropes of muscle formed his abdomen and a V shaped indentation pointed down his pelvis to what lie beneath the blankets. How had she not licked and kissed those muscles last night or this morning? Men only looked that good in magazines or romance novels. Real men weren’t this perfect. That meant Matthew had to have some flaws somewhere, right?
“You want company?” he asked with a sleepy chuckle as he slowly turned his face toward her.
Shit! He had to have seen her watching him.
“Er…” Her rational brain said no. But her rational brain was not in charge. “You