Dating the Boss (Blue Harbor #2) - Jaclyn Osborn Page 0,37
he stood on his tiptoes. I didn’t know how much time had passed as we kissed in the snow, but soon, the cold became too much.
“I can’t feel my toes,” Reed mumbled, shifting his weight from foot to foot. I wrapped my arms around him and picked him up. He let out a surprised yell and held on to my shoulders as I started to walk back the way we’d come. “What are you doing?”
“Sweeping you off your feet?” I said, my chest light and my soul content. He brought it out in me. It was unstoppable. As soon as our lips had first met, something broke in me, as if the cold barrier I’d used to keep everyone at arm’s length over the years cracked and sunlight had spilled in, warming me from the inside out.
“You think you’re some kind of Prince Charming or something?” Reed arched a brow, and the edge of his mouth hitched up. “Does that mean you have a white steed I can ride later?”
I nearly dropped him.
He threw his head back with a laugh. “Oh my god. The look on your face is priceless.”
When the manor came into view, I placed him back on the ground. My earlier euphoria started to dissipate the closer we got, and nerves took its place. What happened now? Had it been a onetime kiss, or would there be more?
God. Let there be more.
Reed grabbed my hand as soon as we were inside and rushed toward the staircase with me in tow. I stumbled after him and laughed when his wet shoes caused him to slide on the first stair. I caught him, though, before he could fall.
“Where are you off to in such a hurry?” I asked against his nape.
A small shudder rippled through him, and he reached back to grip the front of my coat. “I’m taking you to bed, big guy.”
Jesus.
Chapter Nine
Reed
Sure. It was bold of me to assume just because Daniel kissed me that he wanted to fuck me too. But the hard dick poking my ass as we stood on the staircase left little doubt in my mind. He wanted me as much as I wanted him.
I didn’t give my brain time to overthink anything. Up until that moment in the woods, I thought he was one hundred percent straight. Fuck had he proved me wrong. My lips still tingled from the hard kisses in the snow. I didn’t think about what would happen when we finally returned to Blue Harbor. I believed in taking the moment by the balls and making it my bitch.
YOLO, as Monty had said. The asshole.
But he was right.
When I tugged on Daniel’s coat and pulled him with me up the stairs, he didn’t fight me. He swooped me up and carried me the rest of the way up the staircase, my giggles echoing in the stairwell. As he walked down the hall with me literally over his shoulder, the door beside ours opened and Claire stepped out.
“Oh,” she said, surprised, as we passed her. Then she laughed. “Assistant, my ass.”
Daniel’s chest rumbled with a deep chuckle. He set me down and reached into his back pocket for our room key. I smiled over at Claire as I waited for it to be unlocked.
“Beautiful weather we’re having today,” I casually said, hands on my hips. Daniel pushed the door open and tugged me inside. “Oof!”
He shut the door and pushed me against it once we were in the room, his lips finding mine again. As we kissed, my heart beat like crazy. Part of me worried it was a daydream, that it couldn’t be happening, but his taste, his big hands caressing me, felt too real.
Felt too right.
Daniel unzipped my coat and tugged it off my shoulders as I pulled at his and tossed it to the floor. I kicked off my shoes, and he did the same before pulling me to his chest and stepping backward to the bed. He pushed me onto the mattress and joined me there.
“Are you sure this is okay?” he asked, sliding his hands beneath my shirt, his chilled fingers sending ripples along my skin.
“Yes.” I stared up into his winter blue eyes and brushed aside a strand of his black hair. “Kinda embarrassing to admit, but I’ve fantasized about you fucking me for months.”
An almost shy smile touched his lips. “I’ve thought the same about you.”
“I didn’t know you liked men.”
“There’s a lot you didn’t know about me,” he said, moving his