“I need coffee,” I announced.
Mitch studied me. Then one side of his mouth went up in a grin and he muttered, “Right.” Then he didn’t move, except his hand which was still massaging my neck.
Therefore, I prompted, “Like…now.”
The other side of his mouth joined the first, his eyes went super warm and he smiled at me.
A whoosh slid through my belly, I bit my lip and stared.
“Can I have a kiss before coffee?” he asked.
“No,” I answered.
“After?” he asked.
“No,” I answered.
“Before you leave for work?”
“No.”
“When you come home?”
I put pressure on my hands on his chest and snapped, “No!”
“All right,” he surprisingly agreed and I jumped right on it.
“Good, let me go. I need coffee and to check on the kids.”
“No.”
My head tipped to the side. “Pardon?”
“No.”
“Mitch, let me go.”
“No.”
“Mitch!”
Suddenly his hand wasn’t massaging my neck. His fingers had shifted up, curled around my scalp, he tilted my head to the side and his mouth was on mine.
Crap!
I pressed my hands against his chest and my back against his arm to no avail. I felt his tongue touch my lips, I liked it, I made a grunt of effort to push him away but my lips opened anyway and his tongue instantly slid inside. My fingers just as instantly curled into his shirt, the sweep of his tongue felt that good.
He then went on to kiss me and he did this thoroughly. I more than let him, I participated, enthusiastically.
When his head finally lifted, my dazed eyes caught his heated ones, his arms convulsed around me and he whispered, “Told you you’d kiss me again.”
I so totally hated it when he was right.
Chapter Twelve
That’s the Way It’s Gonna Be
I climbed the stairs to my unit, exhausted not because I’d suffered more emotional turmoil but because it had been a madhouse at Pierson’s Mattress and Bed that day. The bad news was, even after a good night’s sleep, I was exhausted again. The good news was, I’d sold a boatload of beds and mattresses, including two king-size Spring Deluxes. This meant Billy, Billie and I weren’t facing canned soup anytime in the near future and this made me happy even through my exhaustion.