going.
Yet, I continue to stare, wishing the sheet weren’t pulled up and tucked under her arm, hiding the perfectness of her lush body from my view. Fuck if it hadn’t been bliss being inside her.
Thinking on last night, yes, the fucking had been marvelous and everything I’d hope to get from a one-night stand, but the times in between… I’m surprised at just how effortless it was to hang with her. The conversations were easy, and I hadn’t felt like I was filling in awkward silences with meaningless drivel. I easily glossed over my career when she asked about my life as a car salesman, but, past that, our conversation was stimulating, and there were a lot of laughs.
If I had to describe Jaime in one word, it would be easygoing, and that was refreshing.
I really should get up and leave. I have so much stuff to do before heading back to work tomorrow.
And yet… Jaime is so damn pretty. I’m content to just lay right here and stare at her. I feel my lips curl upward into a satisfied smile as Jaime slumbers deeply.
Except… she lets out a huge huff that sounds distinctly like a sigh of frustration, then her eyes pop open to stare right back at me. They’re clear and not befuddled by the sound sleep I thought her to be in.
“You’re awake,” I mutter in surprise.
“For a while now,” she replies with a smirk. “I was pretending to be asleep so you could slink out.”
“I don’t slink,” I reply, offended. “I saunter.”
“You look like a slinker.” She pretends to study me carefully, nodding with surety. “Definitely a slinker.”
Christ, she’s cute and funny. Now that she’s talking and looking all sexy, there’s only one thing to do. I roll on top of her, settling in between those legs and bringing my lips to her neck. “I’m not a slinker. But I am definitely a morning sex kind of guy.”
Jaime laughs, bringing her arms around my neck and pulling me down to her mouth for a short kiss. “I’m not averse to morning sex at all, but I actually have to get ready for work.”
Once again, I blink in surprise. Fuck… it’s a weekday, yet it never occurred to me that she might have to be somewhere at a certain time.
Now would be the time for me to slink—I mean, saunter—out of her apartment and her life. That’s what I would do in every other instance if I’d had a one-night stand.
Instead, I find myself asking, “Can I have your number to call you sometime?”
Her eyes soften as she shakes her head. “You don’t have to do that.”
“No, but I want to.”
“Let’s just call it a one-night stand and be happy with it,” she replies firmly. “That’s what we agreed on last night. You’re the one who brought it up, so it must have been important to you.”
I’m at a loss. I don’t date. Don’t do more than one-night stands. I most certainly don’t ask for phone numbers. But now I desperately want hers.
“It’s because I’m a used-car salesman, isn’t it?” I ask, feeling jaded. I should have come up with something a bit more attractive as an occupation. “I’m not sexy enough for you.”
“You’re plenty sexy,” she says with a laugh. “I’m sure it’s a noble profession. People need transportation.”
“It’s because I didn’t play hard to get then?” I venture.
She lowers her gaze, peeking at me coyly from beneath her lashes. “You could have made me work for it a little more.”
I bust out laughing, then give her a hard kiss before rolling off her. “Okay, you’ve got to go to work, but I’m not leaving until you give me your number.”
Searching around for my clothes, I start to get dressed while Jaime watches me from the bed with an appreciative smile. I grab my phone out of my jeans pocket after I pull them on, looking pointedly at Jaime. “Number. Now.”
She rattles off her digits, and I type them in my phone. All the while, she smiles at me with an amused expression. She doesn’t believe I’ll call her.
I pocket the phone, slip my shirt on, and sit on the edge of the bed to put my shoes on. Jaime just silently watches, hand tucked under her pillow.
“I’m going to call you,” I say over my shoulder. “Just you wait and see.”
“Uh-huh.” Nothing but doubt in her tone.
I need to get out of here before I feel the urge to strip back down and make her