Eddie turned, Hector’s eyes sliced to me and I started walking forward.
Hector advanced.
I started running.
I ran straight into him and his arms closed around me.
I shoved my face in his chest, my fists gathering the material of his shirt by my cheeks and I cried hard, shoulder-shaking, uncontrollable sobs.
His arms went tighter and the heat of his body enveloped me.
“I’m an idiot,” I said into his chest.
“You’re not an idiot, mi cielo,” he murmured.
I shook my head but kept his shirt in my fists so my face was rubbing against his chest.
“I’m an idiot,” I repeated through my bawling.
“You’re a pain in the ass but you’re not an idiot,” he replied.
I tipped my head back and looked at him. I couldn’t see much of anything, he was blurry through my tears.
“I told you that you were going to have to cut me some slack!” I cried.
He stared down at me. “You movin’ to Greece?”
“No,” I said immediately.
I felt the tension leave his body then one of his hands drifted up my back, up my neck, his fingers sliding into my hair.
His head dipped down and he touched my lips.
“Good,” he said against my mouth. “Now let’s go home.”
Chapter Twenty-One
A Cooler and a Picnic Basket
Sadie
I woke in Hector’s bed, feeling Hector’s heat at my back, his mouth at my shoulder and his hands moving on me.
I sensed it immediately, the urgency and the tingles started.
“Hector?” I whispered.
He answered in Spanish, his mouth at my neck, words I didn’t even understand causing the tingles to grow into shivers.
I turned in his arms, pressing into his body. He fell to his back, pulling me on top of him. One of his hands went into my panties, the fingers of the other one slid into my hair.
I put my mouth to his, his hand put pressure on my head, we kissed and I melted immediately as the kiss shot straight to hot, hungry and wild.
I’d gone to bed wearing my panties and one of his flannel shirts and both were gone within minutes.
Luckily, Hector had gone to bed naked.
I used my mouth on him, his throat, neck, down his chest, my teeth dragging across his ni**les, my tongue outlining his tattoo.