“Let me love you.”
The words were simple, but they touched her heart, made it shiver with an emotion she didn’t want to face. Not now, not after what she had just been through. But she knew that both of them needed this.
“Yes.”
He smiled as if she had given him the world and bent his head to brush his lips over hers. It was a simple kiss, one that shouldn’t have sent a lick of fire through her blood or made her knees weak. Like she had said to Cynthia, he made her melt. No man in her life had ever been able to do that with just a kiss.
He slipped her robe from her shoulders and then urged her to the bed. He pulled off his shorts and she couldn’t help the desire that shifted through her. He was gorgeous. Lean, sculpted muscles, with various tattoos, the piercing, the solemn expression. And underneath, God, underneath was the best man she had ever known. He was so hot, sweet, kind…she was seriously losing herself to him fast.
“Lay back.”
She did as he requested and he lifted her leg. With skill, he massaged her foot, his talented fingers moving over her arch. She moaned and closed her eyes. He gave her other foot the same treatment and then moved up her legs, caressing and kissing her skin. His tongue darted out every few kisses and then dipped into her belly button.
She laughed and he smiled at her. Then, slowly, easily, he moved closer. He took a nipple into his mouth as he took the other between his fingers and tugged on it. She felt it all the way to her pussy. Wet heat breathed through her blood. Leisurely, he built her up, with his tongue, his hands. It wasn’t crazy, she thought as he slipped down her body, not like before. She felt his hot breath on her sex the moment before he touched her. She dug her fingers into the sheet as he drew her orgasm from her.
While she was still shivering, he grabbed a condom and slipped into her. When she went over the edge again, he went with her.
Chapter Eleven
“You beat me here this morning,” Cynthia said as she walked into the kitchen of the bakery. She was pale again, her hair a tangled mess, and she had dark circles under her eyes. “Wait, weren’t you supposed to be off?”
Jocelyn smiled and shrugged. “I wanted to come in. Big question is how did you ditch my brother?”
Cynthia snorted. “It was a bad morning. I was up at three gagging, and hence…well you get the drift. He’s so worn out. And stop laughing. I’m really starting to worry about him.”
“Sorry. It’s so much fun to hold over him.”
Cynthia sighed as she tossed her purse into the office. “So tell me why you’re here?”
“I told you, I just felt like coming in. I’m kind of worried about you.” Even to her own ears it didn’t sound truthful. It wasn’t that she wasn’t worried about Cynthia. She was a bit, but she knew morning sickness, along with the fatigue, were normal.
Cynthia crossed her arms beneath her breasts and tapped her foot. “Jocelyn.”
She smiled. “I had to bring Kai back.”
For a second, Cynthia’s mouth opened and closed, twice, then she said, “It’s about damned time. You’ve been here over a month. I never expected that boy to move that slow.”
Jocelyn laughed. “There is nothing slow about Kai, except the good things.”
“Oh really? That sounds so…naughty. I want some details.”
Jocelyn shook her head. “No.”
“Ah, come on.” Cynthia was whining now and Jocelyn knew it was out of character. The hormones were really starting to get to her. “I’ve heard rumors about him of course. He has a bit of a reputation.”
“If it is about the fact he has the stamina of ten men, then I would say it was pretty close to the truth.”
“I’m happy for you, Jocelyn.”
She glanced at her and recognized the gleam in Cynthia’s eyes. She had seen it more than once in her mother’s eyes through the years. “Don’t go planning anything. Kai isn’t the kind of guy who settles down, and I’m not sure if I can handle anything past taking things one day at a time.”
Cynthia frowned. “I didn’t say anything. But I have never seen him wait this long to ask a woman out.”
“It wasn’t like we haven’t been on dates.”
“Yeah, but well, Kai usually can talk a woman into bed on the first date.”
Jocelyn shrugged. Lord knew that after that first turn around the island, he could have done. She had all but offered herself up to him that night, but he had held back. “I’m sure being linked through Chris and May made a difference.”
She nodded as she grabbed the pink apron with the word Cynthia’s splashed across the front of it. “I can see that, but still. He’s been kind of on his own since Keisha and he broke up. I just think he might be looking for something serious.”