Jack cut her off again, “When I have you again, poppet, it’ll be in my bed.” He paused. “Or yours.”
“But why –?” she began again and he interrupted her again.
“I was impatient to make things more complicated.”
He felt her tip her head back to look at him and when he dipped his chin to meet her eyes, he noted she hadn’t moved her arm from around his back and the fingers of her other hand were still in his hair.
This made him inordinately glad.
As this feeling stole over him, he watched her eyes change, that radiance from earlier in the day came over them but she remarked, “You get impatient a lot.”
“This is probably true,” he agreed.
“It’s definitely true,” she whispered shyly and he grinned.
His head bent further and he touched his mouth to hers.
He only moved away an inch to say, “Then it’s only fair to warn you, after that magnificent display, I’m feeling even more impatient to make things vastly more complicated.”
“Jack –”
He cut her off again by saying simply, “Belle.”
Her eyes skittered to his ear. He felt a mild annoyance that he lost her even for a moment before what she said next, in a voice that was so quiet it was nearly imperceptible, made this annoyance melt away.
“You don’t think I’m a brazen hussy?”
He stared at her long enough for her eyes to come back to his in anxious enquiry and when they did, he burst out laughing.
Her body went stiff but he knew it wasn’t in embarrassment. It was irritation.
Even so, his arm tightened around her, his hand at her ass pressing her h*ps deeper into his and he held her close to him until he controlled his amusement.
When he dipped down his chin to look at her, it was not difficult in the slightest to read that she was cross.
Her next words and the way she uttered them, including using his full name, proved her expression true.
“You laugh at very strange things, James Bennett.”
“I’m not sure you realise how amusing you are, poppet,” he returned.
“I wasn’t meaning to be amusing. In fact, nearly every time you’ve laughed I wasn’t meaning to be amusing,” she shot back.
He loved it as well when her shyness disappeared and her spirit emerged (but not nearly as much as the noises she made when she was reaching orgasm).
He decided for her sake to try to be serious although he found this difficult considering the subject matter.
“All right, love, obviously this means something to you so perhaps you can explain to me how exactly you’ve behaved like a brazen hussy.”
He could barely say the last two words without chuckling but he managed it.
Just.
Her mouth dropped open before she said tartly, “Well, let me see. I had sex with you within hours of meeting you.”
His head dipped close and he brushed his lips against hers before muttering, “Yes, that was nice.”
Her hand left his hair and she slapped his bicep.