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The fact that she finds me right for her in any sense makes me want to beat my chest with pride despite how complicated our situation is.
I reach up and move some hair from her face. “Wednesday,” I blurt out.
“Wednesday?” she questions, clearly confused by the lack of context.
“I’ll say I’m working late.” I rub my thumb over her bottom lip. “I know it’s the day you have to go to campus. Have dinner with me after you leave. River can come hang out with the kids after his practice. I need more uninterrupted time alone with you. Time where we can talk louder than this,” I tell her.
“Okay…” She nods and I’m happy that it didn’t take much convincing. “As long as Isla is feeling one hundred percent better,” she tells me and I’m pretty sure at that moment, I fall in love with my nanny.
I wake up the next morning feeling lighter than I’ve felt in months. I guess that happens after having two back to back intense orgasms with someone after a year hiatus.
But the larger part of me knows it’s because I felt something shift last night. I turn on my side, blindly reaching for my phone and I’m surprised to see what time it is. It’s nearing almost nine and I can’t remember the last time I slept this late on a weekday. I had already let my office know I’d be working from home today, so no one is looking for me past the standard morning emails. I hear shuffling coming from the kitchen followed by two voices and I realize Isla must have stayed home again.
I quickly brush my teeth and use the bathroom before I make my way out to see Isla sitting at the table eating pancakes. She’s wearing her favorite yellow sunglasses and watching something on her iPad which is something I don’t usually allow at breakfast, but when I see Ellie pouring more batter into the pan, I assume she allowed this.
“You don’t look very sick,” I tell Isla, tilting my head to the side before looking at Ellie.
“It’s just a precaution!” Ellie says. “She was still coughing a little this morning and I just wanted to be safe.”
“Sunglasses at the table, miss.” I give Isla a look because she knows better and she pulls them off her face with an innocent smile.
“Hi, Daddy!”
I sit down next to her and put my hand over her forehead and on her cheek. “How are you feeling, honey?”
“Okay,” she says before taking a bite of her pancakes, still completely engrossed in what she’s watching on her iPad.
“Did you take her with you to take SJ to school?” I ask Ellie and she gives me a dry look.
“I would have woken you if I was leaving her here, but since she’s feeling better, I wanted to give her a little fresh air. We even went on a short walk, right?” She looks at her and Isla nods.
“I’m glad you’re feeling better, munchkin.” I press a kiss to her head before moving across the kitchen toward Ellie.
“Pancakes?” She points at them. “I thought you might be hungry,” she says softly with a tiny lift of her eyebrow and I can’t stop the smile from pulling at my lips.
For you,I mouth at her before I make an obvious show of trailing my eyes down her body. “When she takes a nap,” I whisper so Isla doesn’t hear me as I make my way around the island. When I walk by her, I slide my hand across her ass, gripping it before landing a light smack on it and she giggles.
It’s almost one in the afternoon when Ellie appears in my doorway. “Hey,” she says and just that one word makes my dick hard. “Isla’s asleep,” she tells me with a sexy gleam in her eye. “I was going to take a shower.” She bites down on her bottom lip. “Want to join me?”
It takes us about thirty seconds to end up in Rowan’s bathroom which may be the most gorgeous I’ve ever been in. I expected us to use my bathroom but Rowan lifted me into his arms before I could take even a step into my bedroom and carried me down the hall to his room while his lips devoured mine.
“I’ve never been in your bathroom…or your room,” I say as he helps lift my shirt off over my head, his lips dropping to my neck and trailing kisses down my shoulder.
“Don’t remind me.” He cups my face and presses his lips to mine, pulling my bottom lip gently with his teeth. “You are not leaving this room without letting me fuck you in my bed.”
I nod excitedly. Last night unlocked something inside of me. Maybe because I was already so worked up—because as he’d guessed,I had been touching myself earlier that night—but I feel like my pussy is still throbbing from where he’d been. I want him again.And again.
He turns on the water in the massive shower but I can’t stop my eyes from staring at the marble sunken tub on the other side of the bathroom.
“You want to take a bath instead?” he asks while kneeling behind me to slide my leggings down my legs before he drags his lips over my ass cheeks, nibbling gently.
“No, but maybe next time if there’s an opportunity?”
“Next time we’re completely alone,” he says as he pulls off his shirt, and it will never get old seeing this man’s naked chest. When he slides his sweatpants down his legs revealing his bare cock, I let out a choked breath.
I slide my underwear down my legs and make my way into his shower which is large enough for a group of people. There’s a rain shower feature in the center as well as different retractable shower heads shooting water from the sides. “This shower is…so nice.”
“You’re my first guest in here,” he tells me and I gape at him because while I know he said it had been a year, I know he’s lived here since his divorce.