I’ve ever wanted anything. So please, God, please don’t cover yourself up. I want to see all of you all the time.”
“I’m supposed to walk around naked now?”
“Yes.”
I grin and he rests his forehead on my stomach, wrapping his arms around my thighs but not allowing his fingers to drift up where I want them most.
“I meant it,” he says. Then he looks up at me with so much vulnerability in his eyes that it almost makes my knees buckle. “I’m in this, Addy.”
Chapter Fifteen
Beau
“Good morning,” comes Addy’s soft voice behind me. I turn around in my chair on the back patio and hold out a hand, beckoning her to me. I set down my coffee on the table so I don’t spill it. I need both hands for what I have planned.
“Morning.” I pull her down onto my lap and wrap an arm around her, holding her to me. With pressure on the back of her neck, I let her know what I’m looking for.
Her answering smile greets me a second before her lips do. She tastes like mint from brushing her teeth and a hint of her first sip of coffee. Delicious. Addicting.
“Mmm.” She hums and the vibration hits me, triggering the same primal need I had for her last night when I came to her bedroom. Damn, that was hot. I don’t think I’ve ever been more turned on than I was when I knocked on her door.
After waking up in Zoey’s room, I went to my own. But then I heard noises coming from Addy’s room and instinct took over.
“You taste good in the morning.”
“You say that only because I brushed my teeth before I came out here,” I say.
“Maybe that’s part of it, but you tasted good last night, too.”
I kiss her again, because last night we decided that was allowed and I intend to continue kissing her any chance I get. If I get my way, that’ll be for the rest of our lives. “So did you. But I need to tell you something.”
“What’s that?” she asks, kissing my lips once more.
“I have some regrets.”
Alarm takes over her beautiful face.
“Regrets?” she whispers and tries to get off my lap.
“Yeah. There’s a lot more of you I didn’t taste last night. I regret that.”
She whacks me in the shoulder. “You jerk! I thought…”
“I know what you thought. But I can’t resist teasing you.”
“You always tease me. Why should I expect any different now?”
“You love it.” Her eyes soften and I know that she knows what I really meant was ‘you love me’. We haven’t said the words yet, but they’re there. The words have always been there.
“I do,” she admits quietly.
“You gonna let me take you out on a proper date?”
She presses her lips together to hide her smile but it doesn’t work. I see it. I see the happiness that she’s feeling at the idea of us going on an actual date and it doesn’t suck. I love that I’m giving that to her. It makes me feel like shit that I’ve made both of us wait this long but no more dwelling on that. We’re here now, and that’s what matters. That, and what we have to look forward to.
With my hand on the back of her neck, I bring her lips to mine and murmur against them. “I want to do this right. We skipped ahead last night, and I loved every minute of it, but you deserve more than me attacking you in your bedroom because I’d lost the fight against my will power.”
“In case you didn’t notice, I didn’t mind one bit.”
“Yeah, I got that in the way you were right there with me.”
“Why did you come to my room last night?”
“I think it was fairly obvious,” I tell her, deflecting. I don’t want to embarrass her.
She shakes her head. “I know that wasn’t it. It may have turned to that, but I know you, Beau. There’s no way you came to my room hoping to get some.”
“I told you I needed to tell you something then I fell asleep with Zoey before I could.”
Addy sits back and gives me her mom look and I try, and fail, not to laugh. It’s also a little concerning how well it works. “Fine. I fell asleep reading with Zoey and when I woke up I was cursing myself for doing so. I knew I’d missed my chance to talk to you and admit that I wanted more but I didn’t want to