Laid Bare - Lauren Dane [72]
“Good for you! I hope you can meet some friends there. It seems like a good organization.”
She smiled for the rest of the afternoon, thrilled Ella had taken so many really positive steps in her life. If only the asshole would finally leave her alone.
A week later, Todd strolled in at closing time looking better than any man had a right to. She smiled as she took a slow tour from head to toe and back again. “My, you’re very pretty.”
He laughed and gave her a kiss.
“You should have woken me before you left.”
“You were sleeping so deep you were snoring. I didn’t want to wake you.”
“Are you free for the afternoon? Wanna go to a movie or something? I just found out I have to go back to Boston. I’m sorry, it’s all the disability stuff. There’s an administrative hearing I need to be at. My dad is going along; he wants to go fishing afterward. DJ and Joe are meeting us in Yellowstone. I’m taking a road trip from Boston to Montana with my father, god help me.”
She laughed. “So you’re taking me to a movie to assuage your guilt?” She wiped off the counter and set the dishwasher as she came back out into the main room. “I’m kidding, jeebus, don’t look so guilty.”
“I hate leaving you. I won’t be seeing Sheila or anything.”
“I should hope not.” Erin laughed. “Todd, I don’t suspect you of trying to cheat on me with your ex. And I like that you’re going to do something with your dad and brothers. It’s a good thing.”
“I don’t want to be gone for two weeks. But Ben will check in on you. I expect Cope will too.”
“Two weeks?” She pouted. Just a little bit. “I suppose it’s a good time of year and all. And I have work to do at Adrian’s that I’ve been neglecting. I like to tend to his yard in the back.”
She paused and looked at him. It was the perfect time to do something she’d wanted to do for a while now.
“When are you leaving?”
“Tuesday.”
“All right then. Don’t make any plans Monday night. But you and I need to have lots of sex before then.”
He caught her, pulling her close. “That’s not a problem. What do you have planned?”
“I’d like to get my clitoral hood pierced. You’re not supposed to have sex for three days, and then there’s a two-week healing period. My nipple piercings healed really fast; I have a superquick metabolism. I had to do it twice, you know. I took them out when I was nursing Adele, and they closed up, so I did it again.”
His breath caught and his cock pressed against her belly insistently. “Did it feel good?”
“The nipple piercings? Yes. I like a little pain. You know that. I feel a bit more worried about the hood piercing pain-wise, but there’s always ibuprofen. And you’ll be gone, so there won’t be any action in that area anyway. I want a vertical piercing so the ball sits right on my clit. Raven says it’s amazing.”
He scrubbed a hand through his hair. “Christ. If your brother wasn’t next door, I’d fuck you right here.” He pulled her hand, drawing her to the front door, and she grabbed her bag.
“Hang on there, speedy. You can’t fuck me if you yank my arm out of the socket.”
He laughed. “My place is closer and currently empty. I’ll meet you there in a few.”
When Erin walked through his back door he was lying in wait, grabbing her around the waist, pulling her shirt off before they’d even made it to the living room, where he promptly bent her over the couch arm.
His mouth met her shoulder, hot and wet as he laid a kiss there, then a bite. He kissed down the line of her spine, pulling her pants off as he did.
Todd pressed the pad of his middle finger over her clit. “Here? Is this where the jewelry will touch?”
She arched into his touch, undoing him completely.
“Yes. It makes me wet just thinking about it,” she murmured.
He groaned. “Touch yourself for me. I want to watch.” He sat back