True. She shook her head. “I mean, you’re you…and I’m me.” She motioned to her body, wincing when she realized that meant they were staring at her bare curves once more. “I know you hired me because I wasn’t beautiful enough to fuck.” They both jerked at her words. She smiled, a self-mocking smile that never reached her eyes. “I heard your friends discuss it one day.”
“Shit,” Drew muttered under his breath, clearly taken aback.
“We’re sorry,” Scott instantly countered, his hands braced in the air in front of him as if he wanted to prove his good faith.
She was getting cold, she thought somewhere in a corner of her mind, noticing her skin had broken into goose bumps. The water was still going, but it was definitely lukewarm, the shower having lasted too long for the house’s old furnace.
“That’s okay. I understood the rules from the start. What I meant was…why do you want to break them if you don’t even find me attractive? Can’t you find someone else? Two someone elses?”
“We could,” Drew answered after a quick look at his friend. “But we want you.”
“Why?”
“Why what?” he asked, his brow furrowed.
It looked as if they hadn’t expected her to say no. Or even question them. She tried to explain, “We’ve become good friends now, haven’t we? You want to throw all that away because you suddenly want sex? And why, because you stumbled upon me in the shower?”
“You don’t understand, baby,” Scott said, his tone brooking no nonsense. He didn’t say anything else straight away but grabbed a towel from the nearby rail and opened the shower door.
Steam escaped, cold air rushed in. Kris shivered, the feeling replaced by mixed emotions as he gestured her to step forward. “I don't think so."
He smiled, almost as if he were trying to reassure her. “I just want to wrap you up in this. You’re getting cold, and I don’t want you to get sick.”
“Oh.” That sounded reasonable. Right?
She turned around, the towel falling around her, covering her from her shoulders to the tops of her thighs. His arms snaked above the material, pulling her back until she was snuggled into his embrace. Her arms were stuck inside the towel, making it impossible for her to move.
“Better?” he whispered in her left ear.
She stilled. It’d been him in the kitchen the day before! It was there in the way he was holding her to him, in the way he’d murmured to her, too. That soft voice. Those long-fingered hands. “Oh my God.”
His embrace lessened, but it was only so he could turn her around so she faced them. “What’s wrong?”
“It was you.”
She saw the moment it hit him. His eyes widened then darkened to a forest green. “Yes.”
“You didn’t stumble upon me in here, did you?”
“No.”
Thoughts slashed through her brain. “You’ll be able to fix my bathroom in no time, won’t you?”
He barely blinked at the insinuation lacing her words. “It shouldn’t take too long, no.”
Unbelievable!
“Is that a yes then?” Drew’s question threw everything into a spin.
Chapter Five
Even though Drew knew she wanted them, he wasn’t sure how this would go. Would she run away like she had only a few days before or would she give them a chance? He had no idea.
He also couldn’t wait any longer.
Grabbing her shoulders, he pulled her out of Scott’s embrace and made her fall against him. She flailed, the towel opening up just in time for her breasts to become cushioned against his chest. He hissed at the feel of her plush body so close. Unable to stop himself, he let his hands fall down to rest on her ass. One hand per cheek. Perfect! He grinned down at her.
“Drew!” he heard his friend groan.
But he didn’t care. Because you know what? She wasn’t complaining. No, instead, she looked up at him with a weird expression on her face, almost as if she didn’t know how to react. Maybe she needed another little push…
He lowered his head and brushed his lips on hers. It was just a small kiss, nothing remotely major in the grand scheme of things, but she reacted as if he’d just licked her clit. She moaned, the sound ringing in the tiled bathroom. His cock hardened even more, and he was sure Scott’s did as well.
She was so fucking ready for this. She might not know it yet or maybe she didn’t want to acknowledge it yet, but she wanted this. She really did.
Intent on proving it, he bent his head once more and took her mouth in a deep kiss. He was thorough, a lot more than he usually was during a first kiss. His tongue tangled with hers, his hands squeezing her butt while he was at it.