Sutton

“I can’t share your bed, Miss Landry.”

I rolled my eyes and repeated myself one more time. “Listen, Mr. Williams, you have a head injury. That means you need to be monitored. I voted for calling an ambulance, but you voted me down. It’s fucking late, or actually hella early, and I need to sleep. So, your option is to share the couch with me or the bed.”

Mr. Williams coughed, and I could have sworn the man blushed. “That is highly inappropriate!”

“I am not going to ravish you.” I was starting to enjoy this a little too much. “I am exhausted, and I am going to sleep. Now, get your ass in gear. We are going to bed.”

Instead of waiting for him to decide, I grabbed his hand and began to pull. To my surprise, the giant of a man followed me into my bedroom. He looked completely out of place. The mattress was fairly new on the old double bed. I had saved up for almost two years to buy it. It wasn’t top of the line or anything, but at least it wasn’t sagging in the middle.

“What side of the bed do you sleep on?” I asked, yawning.

Mr. Williams was looking everywhere but at me. “What?” he said distractedly. “Oh, um, look I am going to just go back out to the couch.”

It looked like I needed to take matters into my own hands. With brute force I pushed him down onto the mattress. “Lay down, cowboy.”

He turned toward me, and I noticed once again how close we were in my small bedroom. Clearing my throat, I climbed over to my side of the bed saying, “You need to relax and lay down.”

He let out a long-defeated sigh, so I reached up and gently pushed his shoulder until Mark laid back on the bed.

“Are you okay?” I asked hesitantly, my voice sounding louder in the dark.

“Of course, I am.” His reply in that dry tone of his somehow comforted me.

A loud yawn escaped me, and despite the fact that I had a complete hottie in my bed, I was almost dead to the world. All I wanted to do was get some sleep. Sadly, his large body took up a lot of space in my double bed. I found myself rolling into his space no matter how hard I tried to hang on to the other side.

After three attempts at hugging the edge, Mr. Williams gruffly pulled my body into his so that my head was resting on his chest, and his muscular arm surrounded me. I didn’t move, speak, or even breathe. But I did feel. I could feel every inch of him—and it was magnificent.

“Neither one of us will be getting any rest, Miss Landry, if you don’t relax. Come on, let’s get some sleep.”

Rest? Shit, I am now wide awake!

With a gulp I replied, “Yes, sir.”

I could somehow feel his smile against the top of my head.

“Smart ass,” he quipped, and I giggled. I couldn’t help it. “Relax, Sutton, get some sleep.”

“Okay,” I said softly.

“Good, no more talking.”

be able to sleep with a man as sexy and powerful as Mr. Williams in my bed. Hell, I worried that I would spontaneously combust just by his sheer sexual attraction. So, imagine my surprise when my eyes grew heavy, and I drifted off to

***

hard body driving insistently against my softer one. He pinched my nipple, tugging on the tip and then flicking it with his finger. Shit, I loved to have my nipples played with. I

seconds away from oblivion. Just a few more thrusts of my hips and… nothing.

Damn it all to fucking hell. This was the worst part of sex dreams, when you woke up before the big finish. I closed my eyes, trying to force myself back into a deeper

I moaned out, “No, fucking hell. I was almost there.”

man cleared his throat and I

a man in my bed?

caused goosebumps to appear across my

bearing down on me. It was then that I realized the true implications of where I was and who I

No!

My tank top was pushed up and over my breasts, and my leg had been straddling Mr. Williams thigh.

was lying there like a board. I swiftly tore away from him whilst tugging my top down. Scrambling out of the bed, I nearly fell on my

smiled. “Sutton, are you alright?”

Mortification drenched my soul. What if he thought I was trying to seduce him? What if he thinks that I am the kind of girl that brings strange men home from

blurted out, turning abruptly and grabbing something out of my drawer. I didn’t even know what

to…” Mark began again, but I cut him off.

was almost

sake, Miss Landry,

not wanting to turn around.

very least turn around so

thing to help my embarrassment begin to fade. By being his highhanded, bossy self, I noticed that I was feeling a little

I raised my chin a fraction. “Did

that you aren’t upset. You seemed as if the hounds of hell were at your feet. You didn’t do anything wrong.”

and lust raced through my veins as I remembered the dream. Had his hand been on

was the dessert on the

to climb back into bed with the luscious Mr. Williams, I knew it would have been a bad idea. With a bravado I didn’t feel, I answered. “There is nothing the matter with me. I was only going to take a quick shower so that the bathroom could be free for

for a moment. “Yes.”

left me without any doubts as to what he wanted. However, his next words surprised me.

not speak of

a brow. “We won’t speak of what?”

eyes went to my breasts and

I had my way, we wouldn’t have spoken of it now. So, if there isn’t anything else?”

my hands. “Are you wearing that?”

whipped back around to find a short denim

I passed Earl drinking a beer at my table. He

a nod he said, “I put my things in your washer, Sutton. I hope that is okay with

had been a fixture in my life for as long as I could remember. He grinned at me with those yellowed teeth, and I felt a surge of fondness for the old man. “Of course, Earl. You know that you are always welcome. Sit tight for a moment. After my shower I will be out

He nodded happily and turned to the newspaper that he likely picked up off my front porch. I knew

I hadn’t yet rinsed the conditioner out of my hair when I heard Martha screeching, “Earl, I know you are in there. Open the damn door. You always go to that whorehouse!”

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