7
ELLIS
I set her feet on the floor, and she almost fell over. Her knees buckled. I caught her in my arms and supported her. She swayed and sighed against my chest, all floppy and vulnerable and sweet the way I remember. Her fruity aroma still clung to my clothes and hands and my bear inhaled deeply. He wanted more of her, as much as he could have. I would dream about her again tonight, only now I could dream about the real thing.
I held her close until she raised her head and shook her golden hair out of her face. Her eyes still hovered at half-mast from the screaming orgasms she just had. Her skin glowed brighter than ever. I couldn’t get enough of a woman like her.
I zipped up while she straightened her dress. She gathered her tits back into her bra and pushed her cleavage into place. She caught me gawking at her. She locked her drunken eyes on me and gave me a twisted grin.
“Is that what you wanted to talk to me about?”
I had to laugh. I shook my head and kissed her. “Come back to my place. Spend the night with me. You know you won’t regret it.”
“Regret it?” She cocked an eyebrow and spread her dress down over her hips and thighs. “I already do.”
“You do? What for? Didn’t you like it?”
“Oh, I liked it. I liked it a lot. That’s why I regret it.”
I started to ask why, but she moved toward the door. “I better go.”
“You didn’t answer me. What do you say to coming back to my place?”
“I’m not coming back to your place. No way.”
“Why do you say it like that? You had a good time here. You could have a great time there.”
She rounded on me. “Is that all you ever think about—having a great time?”
“No. All I ever think about is you. I told you that, and it’s true. If you don’t come back to my place and spend the night with me, I’ll be thinking about you the whole time until you do. I’ll never leave you alone. Is that what you want?”
She snorted. “You’ll never leave me alone either way.”
I put my arms around her. “You’re right. I can’t get enough of you.”
She pried herself loose. “You were fine without me for the past seven years. I think you can go back to that with no trouble.”
I froze. “Why do you keep saying things like that? What’s bothering you?”
“Nothing’s bothering me.” She picked up her coat. “Everything’s just fine.”
‘Everything’s just fine’ my fucking ass. Everything’s just fine as long as I don’t look at her or come near her, and now that we just did it in the coat closet, she was getting weird again. I couldn’t figure it out for the life of me.
She popped the door lock to walk outside, but I held her back. “At least wait until I check the coast is clear. We don’t want anybody spotting us, especially not Brayden.”
I went out first. When I saw the hall empty, I signaled her to come out after me. I would have put my arm around her and kissed her again right there, but I stopped when I saw Brayden coming the other way. “There you two are. Come on down to the living room. I need your help with this wedding.”
“Don’t you have the whole thing planned out?” I asked.
He shook his head. “We have a taste test with the caterer tomorrow at the venue. Julia has to go to the dress shop, and we need some more opinions at this tasting. I have my tux fitting in the morning. Could you two go together?”
She started to say something, but I jumped in first. “Sure. We’ll go. I’ll give Mckenna a ride.”
She glared at me. “I can’t go. I have to go to the dress shop with Julia.”
“I already cleared it with Julia,” Brayden replied. “She’s already got the other five bridesmaids going with her. Besides, this is just a fitting. You were already there when she picked out the dress.”
“But…” Mckenna started, but Brayden interrupted her.
“Guys we really need people we trust at this tasting,” Brayden said. He looked straight at me. “Don’t make me pull the groomsmen card on you.”
I laughed, but she pursed her lips. “I’ll do it for you,” I said.
“Great.” Brayden pinched her arm and hurried away.
Mckenna bared her teeth at me. “You didn’t have to do that.”
“I didn’t have to offer to help your brother? Now you’re not making any sense.”
“You didn’t have to offer to take me in your car.”
“What was I going to do—take you on the handlebars of my bike?”
She took a step toward me and hissed through her teeth. “Don’t start making your stupid little jokes. You knew I wanted to go with Julia, and I just said I didn’t want to see you again.”
“You never said anything of the kind,” I shot back. “You said you didn’t want to spend the night with me at my place. If you really don’t want to see me again, you’ve got a strange way of showing it by fucking me in the closet back there. If you didn’t want to see me, all you had to do was say so.”
“You knew I planned to go with Julia tomorrow,” she spat. “Now you’ve ruined everything.”
I stood my ground. “Oh, silly me. I thought I was helping your brother with something he needed to be done for the wedding.”
“Will you knock that off?” she growled. “Stop being so all-fired helpful, and stop acting like you’re not doing this to get close to me because I know you are. You’re trying to get this thing started up again when I don’t want it to. There. I said it. Are you happy now?”
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. “What is wrong with you, Mckenna? Did I just imagine that we had the best sex of our lives in that room? Can you really blame me for trying to get this thing started up again? Why are you getting so nasty toward me all of a sudden?”
She ran her hands through her hair. “Forget it. We’re not starting up again, and we’re not doing it again, and I’m not going to the tasting with you tomorrow. So, get that through your head.”
She spun away and marched off down the hall. I didn’t try to follow her. My head still buzzed from exploding all over her in that closet. I couldn’t stop watching her ass jump right and left when she walked away. She was, without doubt, the sexiest, most mind-blowing woman I ever met.
No matter what she said, I would never stop trying to get her in the sack again. My bear would do anything to have her again. I didn’t believe her, either. She wanted to do it again. For some reason, she didn’t want to want it, but when the chips came down, she would want to. She would give herself to me again. She would wrap herself around me and scream in my ear. She would pull my hair and bounce on my lap.
Her eyes hovered before my mind. That erotic shine burned into my soul right before she collapsed into my embrace. Her fingernails raked up my back, and she sucked her breath between her teeth when I touched her.
Brayden came back, and I snapped out of my daydream. I couldn’t let him know I just screwed his sister in the closet. He wanted my expert consultation on some other emergency detail of the wedding plans—like I ever got married before.
I let him lead me back to the living room, and I never left it again. I didn’t go hunting for Mckenna. I already had her, and I would have her again. I never knew if she was still in the house.
I gave Brayden my undivided attention. I made jokes to entertain the other groomsmen, and I used all my business acumen to help him solve whatever logistical hiccups came up for the rest of the night. I made myself the best best friend a guy ever had. That was the least I owed him.