Page 16 of Sinful Seduction
I clamp my lips shut. Because if I snicker, my wife might maimme. “So he’s been a little needy, huh?”
“I amnota baby whisperer, Archer! I have literally never in my life hung out with someone who had a baby. I don’t have friends with babies. I don’t hang out at the local daycare. Even Mia goes to the toilet on her own. So why the hell would he think I have answers?”
“Because you’re a doctor?” I grit my teeth and dive forward, burying my lips against the side of her neck to save myself from her fiery glare. “Because he respects you. Because you delivered her.”
“Icaughther!” she groans. “Literallycaughther. That was the extent of my efforts, and if I knew this is how he’d treat me afterwards, I might’ve let her bounce against the ground instead.”
I snort. “No, you wouldn’t have.”
“Well, no… I wouldn’t have. But I might’ve considered drowninghimin the lake. He’d already done his part with the baby making, and they’re married now, so Debbie’s set to inherit the house and assets upon his demise. She literally doesn’t need him anymore.”
“Perhaps she keeps him around for love, not necessity?” I suckle on her neck and drink the water straight from her skin. She quenches my thirst like no other. “Something about affections and whatnot? Though, I’d rather talk about us.”
“Us?”
“Mmm.” I cup her breast. “Call me a weirdo, but if I’m in the shower with my wife, I’d prefer to discuss my wife. Not my annoying brother.”
“He’s exceptionally annoying.” But she relaxes under my touch, exhaling her rage and relaxing against the wall. “Moral of the story is that he’s needy, he woke me up, Cato’s a messy house guest, and I don’t want to try on dresses today.”
“And there we are, arriving at the main issue.” I circle her pebbled nipple with my thumb and slip my leg between her thighs. “I knew we’d get there eventually.”
She harrumphs in the back of her throat.
“It’s just a dress, Minnnnka. It’s thirty seconds of trying silky fabric on to make sure it fits, then you can toss it away again and go back to your life.”
“But I have to stand there andoohandahhover everyone else’s dresses, too. I have to hang out with Fifi, even though she’s a traitor who left?—”
“I thought we’d accepted that?”
“Not when I’m hot and tired and dehydrated.” She angles her head back and opens her legs, vibrating and welcoming of my touch. “When I’m in a bad mood, I’m cranky with her again. Mia will be there, which means I have to cool it on the maiming stuff, and I can’t even tell Aubree I think weddings are dumb, because that’ll hurt Mia’s feelings.”
And Aubree’s feelings, too.
I trail my fingers down her belly, over her hip, and across silky thighs. And since we skipped thegetting undressedportion of today’s shower, I tug her shorts down and leave them tangled at her ankles. “What if I make you come?” I brush my fingertips over the small thatch of hair shielding her sweet pussy, then over her pulsing clit, and when she startles, I pin her to the wall and force her to feel it all. To experience everything. “I could make you melt. Mellow you out. Use up your angry energy and leave you with just the Doctor Feel Good leftovers.” I slip two fingers into her pussy and capture her lips between my teeth. “I could send you to that dress shop with a nice little pat on the backside and a goofy grin on your face. Doesn’t that sound nice?”
“You could try, I guess.” Warmth fires in her cheeks, red stains spreading beneath her flesh and up to make her eyes dance. “Not sure you could make me comeso muchthat I’d forget all my troubles.”
“A challenge?” I lower to my knees and bury my nose between her legs, fucking her with my tongue and earning her first release far faster than I could have predicted. “You underestimate me, Mrs. Malone. I’ve been studying your body for a while now.” I suckle her pounding clit between my lips, and because she needs the extra attention, I slip my thumb into her asshole and know she’ll walk away with that promised grin. “That’s two. And I’m a dedicated man, happy to take as much time as we need to ensure the job is complete to satisfaction.”
MINKA
Cato has a gift for stayingjustfar enough away, even in a small apartment, to not get hit. If I’m in the kitchen, he remains in the living room. If I’m in the living room, he’s in the hall. Growing up as a Malone has obviously left him with a good sense of self-preservation, but it doesn’t keep him from wearing that smarmy smirk he carries so well.
“I would expect an apology before you leave, Doc.” He hovers by the television in nothing but basketball shorts and a gold chain hanging around his neck. Not the same as Benjamin Saxon’s, but similar enough to send my mind back to work. He peels a ripe banana and takes a bite off the end. “You were kinda rude earlier.”
“I’ll apologize when you contain your crap to the single duffel bag you brought here when you first moved in.” I walk to the coffee machine and prepare to snag a to-go cup for the road, only to gnash my teeth in frustration when I remember the greatest of all injustices. “And buy me coffee.”
“I’ll buy you coffee, ‘cos you’re cute even with the pixie anger thing you carry so well. And I don’t mind spending money, since I didn’t earn a single penny of the oodles I have in the bank.” He takes another bite of his snack. “Easy come, easy go, ya know? But I already told you, I didn’t use the last of the coffee.”
Archer closes the fridge and carries a can of Pepsi in one hand and a bottle of water in the other. Stopping in front of me, he offers both andfirms his lips when I predictably take the former. “If I remember correctly, Chief,youmade coffee for us when we left last night.” But to soften the blow of his cruel fact dropping, he leans in and kisses my cheek. “No one else has been in here since then, and he says he didn’t have any. That meansyoutook the last. But I’ll get us some more and restore peace within our home.”
“Me?” I turn and stare longingly at the coffee machine. “I did it?”
“So I’ll take that apology at any time, Doc. I accept money, hugs, and sexual fav?—”
“I have Pepsi.” I flip the boy off and come back around to my husband. “Pepsi is a suitable alternative, especially in this heat.”
“Figured as much. We’ll get more of the hot stuff today, and life will go on. What do I need to do to convince you to drink water between sodas today?”