Page 44 of Take the Blame (Seaside Mergers #3)

“Alta that water is a million degrees! What the hell is wrong with you?”

Coming to a stop in the middle of the bathroom she looked at me with wide, wide eyes.

I must have looked crazy, my eyes peeled open with shock as I stood in front of her butt-ass naked with nothing but my hands covering my junk.

But my skin was still cooking from her hot-ass shower, so frankly I didn’t give a shit.

Another second passed, maybe two.

Then, all at once, she crumbled into a fit of laughter. Her loud giggles bouncing off the acoustics of the bathroom like a cackling taunt. I swear she laughed so hard there must have been tears in her eyes.

“It’s not funny! Please tell me you aren’t showering in that shit,” I grumbled.

She didn’t answer; couldn’t through all her laughter. She did get closer though, coming up right under me and latching onto my body. I think she was trying to rub soothingly at my skin but again, she was laughing too hard to do anything properly.

I glared. “You are an evil little thing, I swear to God.”

“I was just an angel!” she said.

“Yeah well, I take it back.”

“Showers are meant to be taken in hot water, Harp,” she giggled. “Of course it’s hot.”

I shook my head. “Not like that. That shit was like lava. My skin is dissolving.”

She continued to laugh, patting at my arms again. “Aw. Sana, sana pobrecito .”

My gaze slanted on her. “I have no clue what you just said, but it sounded condescending.”

Her grin was the only answer I needed. “Sana is just part of an old saying telling you to get well. ”

“And the other part?”

“General translation: poor baby.”

I glowered and her reaction was to laugh again. She was just having so much fun. And as her eyes landed on my hands, she threw her head back and howled. “Why are you holding yourself like that? I’ve seen it already!”

“Not in this vulnerable state, you haven’t.”

“ Lo siento ,” she said between soft chuckles, though they were starting to subside. The next thing I knew she was peeking up at me sweetly, the old Alta back after her devilish stint. Catching my eye, she raised an eyebrow. “Know what that means?”

I shook my head, and she smiled softly. “It means, I’m sorry.”

I turned my chin away from her. “Yeah whatever, Satan. Get out, I’m going to need a minute to get over this.”

Her eyebrows rose high but a small smirk remained. “You don’t accept my apology?”

“Not while you’re still laughing.”

“Alright.” Moving her hands, she pushed her hair back, twisting it into the braid she’d been working on. Then she suddenly flicked her hand through the knot at the top of her bath towel, allowing it to fall from her body to the ground.

I felt myself harden instantly as the expanse of her perfect body came into full view. “What are you doing?”

She kneeled, and before I knew it, soft hands were trailing their way up my thighs, knocking my own hands away and finding me wanting. “Finding a better language to apologize in.”

You would think it would get old, using each other like this. But even as Saturday night turned into Sunday morning and then afternoon, no part of having Alta Fernandez in my arms could ever get boring. The more I had the more I needed, even when I was clearly exhausted.

I must have been dozing on the couch, because the last thing I remembered was sitting there with Alta’s thigh under my palm as she read something on her phone and the next thing I knew I was being brought back to this plane by the gentle caress of warm lips along my skin.

Peeling my eyes open and having her as the first thing I saw was officially my favorite way to wake up. Feeling that her sweet thighs straddling my waist had already worked their magic in waking up another part of me was even better.

“Baby,” I groaned, thrusting my hips unconsciously up into her as my body came to life at her touch. “Do you ever rest?”

“I’m very high energy,” she said, hips coming down to grind against mine. “And you’re very inspiring.”

Sliding my palms up the expanse of her body, I realized there was a whole lot of skin I was feeling. My hands moved up higher and my previous groan expanded as I found her completely naked underneath another one of my shirts, a button down this time that was barely closed.

Leaning forward I took one side of her into my mouth, the softness of her flesh contrasting with the hardness of her nipples.

“What the hell are you doing to me?” I rasped.

“Whatever you let me.” Proving her own words, she reached between us and pulled me free of my briefs.

Sinking herself down, I could feel she was already wet as she began to slide herself over me, teasing as she let me feel her but didn’t go any further.

She liked kisses. So she peppered me with them, all along my face until finally taking my lips and exploring my mouth until she’d worked both of us up into a frenzy .

Ripping my mouth away, I looked at her, panting. “You’re going to wear me out.”

Something gleamed in her eye, and she leaned back. At this angle I could see all of her spread wide and bare for me to witness. And witness I did as she moved her hips in a way that brought me up and down along her folds for the both of us to clearly see.

I shuddered. Shit, she was sexy. Too sexy for either of our own goods. And she was teasing the shit out of me, my dick weeping it was so hard.

“Stop playing with me, baby,” I groaned. “Come up here and do something about it already.”

She smiled. It was one of her prettiest ones, all triumph and pride and confidence. And when she lifted, she leaned close to my face, close enough to kiss me but not quite getting there. “Say it pretty, how I like.”

This fucking girl .

She took my breath away. She lit me up from the inside out.

She called to all the parts of me I didn’t know I had.

All the parts that tried to convince me I was better off alone, better off not opening myself up for the possibility of being left behind—better off without a someone.

Everything about her was screaming at me that she was my someone.

And I must be going crazy because I was starting to listen.

“Ally, baby.” I said nicely, just as she requested. “Please?”

That smiling kiss came down on me at the same time her hips sank down and down and down, and she gave me everything I wanted.

Not just her body. But her.

All I wanted was her.