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

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feel, his 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 ground my core harder against him and felt the familiar tingling racing up

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

woke up before the big finish. I closed my eyes,

a groan I moaned out, “No, fucking hell. I

his throat and I

there a man in my bed? I didn’t do

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

of steel-gray eyes bearing down on me. It was then that I realized the true implications of where I

No!

and my leg had been straddling Mr. Williams thigh. Great,

it was then I noticed how rigid he was. I was plastered all over him and he was lying there

nearly smiled. “Sutton, are you alright?”

I alright? Hell, no! I was all keyed up for an orgasm that wasn’t coming, and I just embarrassed myself with a gorgeous man. 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

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

Mark began again,

“Please excuse me for just a minute.” I was almost to the door when he barked out.

“For heaven’s sake, Miss Landry,

not wanting to

turn around so I am

right thing to help my embarrassment begin to fade. By being his highhanded, bossy self, I

raised my chin a fraction. “Did

“I need to know that you aren’t upset. You seemed as if the

I had been. Fire and lust raced through my veins as I remembered the

looking at me like I was the

my foot nervously. As much as I would have liked 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

eyes blazed for a

word was inauspicious enough, but the way his gaze raked over my body left me without any doubts as to what he

will not speak of this,” he said coldly.

brow. “We won’t

there. His eyes went to my breasts and he said in a low voice, “You

“If I had my way, we wouldn’t have spoken of it now. So,

looked at my hands. “Are you

cane scarf and cutoffs in my hands. I felt the color infuse my cheeks. “Um, no. Hold on.” I whipped back around to find a short denim skirt and a faded peasant blouse, along with a bra and

my table. He just

put my things in your washer, Sutton.

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

He nodded happily and turned to the newspaper that he likely picked up off my front porch. I knew it was only a matter of time before his wife

hair when I heard Martha screeching, “Earl, I know you are in there. Open the

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