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.”

bed. Hell, I worried that I would spontaneously combust just by his sheer sexual attraction. So, imagine my surprise

***

made me feel, his hard

few more thrusts of my hips

the

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

throat and I froze.

my bed? I didn’t do sleepovers.

“Sutton?” The deep timbre of his voice caused goosebumps to appear

eyes flew open, and to my complete horror, I found a pair of steel-gray eyes bearing down on me. It was then that I realized the true implications of

No!

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

cleared his throat once again and it was then I noticed how rigid he was. I was plastered all over him and he was lying there like

“Sutton, are

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

yeah. I think I am going to shower now,” I blurted out, turning abruptly and grabbing something out of my drawer. I didn’t even know what clothes I had snatched up. For all I knew there could be a tube

to…” Mark began again, but I cut him

was almost to the door when he barked out.

Landry,

paused, not wanting

“Can you at the very least turn around so I

embarrassment begin to fade. By being his highhanded, bossy self, I

raised my chin a fraction. “Did you need something?”

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

heated gaze reminded me that he was every bit as aroused as I had been. Fire and lust raced through my veins as I remembered the dream. Had his hand been on

at me like I was the dessert on

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

for a

his gaze raked over my body left me without any doubts as

not speak of this,”

I raised a brow. “We

with the shadow of beard that was growing there. His eyes went to my breasts and he

we wouldn’t have spoken of it now. So, if there

as he looked at my hands. “Are you wearing that?”

find a short denim skirt and a faded peasant blouse, along with a bra and underwear. Without a word, I darted out of the bedroom and raced to the bathroom.

Earl drinking a beer at my table. He just happened to be wearing my bathrobe.

things in your washer, Sutton. I hope that is okay with you.”

was eccentric and slightly nuts, but he 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 in a

front porch. I knew it was only a matter of time before

heard Martha screeching, “Earl, I know you are in there. Open the damn door. You always go to that whorehouse!”

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