Sugar Creek 2(6)

“Yeah, we can tell you are feeling much better. That’s why your face has gone as white as a sheet and you’re trying not to pass out,” Damian said. “There is no way in hell you are in any condition to drive, Melissa. You could be putting yourself and other people at risk if you got behind the wheel of a car today. Don’t be so damn stubborn.”

“But…”

“No buts,” Luke said.

“You are going to go back to bed right now. You’re not going anywhere until Doc Jonas has given you the all-clear. Do you understand?” Damian scooped her up into his arms, not giving her a chance to reply or argue, and carried her to the bedroom where he placed her gently on the bed. She was asleep within seconds without voicing any more protests.





Chapter Two




Melissa felt so much better when she woke later that day, and even though she knew she should go home, she didn’t want to. She was drawn to Luke and Damian and craved to be near them. She’d never felt that way before and couldn’t understand why she was reluctant to leave.

After what she’d just been through with Wesley, she should be a lot more wary, especially of men she didn’t know. It wasn’t that Wesley had hurt her physically—now that she thought about it he came across as weak and insipid, a real mommy’s boy, and she never should have gone out with him in the first place—but he had really hurt her feelings and her confidence as a woman and she didn’t know if she wanted to put herself through such a humiliating experience again. After a quick shower and brushing her teeth, she found her clothes draped over a small sofa along the wall, and when she picked them up she realized that they had been cleaned. She wondered if Luke and Damian had washed her clothes or if they’d had someone else do it for them, but she didn’t remember seeing anyone else in their home. With a shrug of her shoulders, she got dressed and then went in search of Luke and Damian. She was just glad that it was the weekend and she didn’t have to go to work.

Damian was just coming out of the kitchen and he had what smelled like a cup of coffee in his hand.

“Hi baby, how are you feeling?”

“Much better. Thank you.”

“Here.” Damian passed the mug to her. “I heard you get up and thought you would like a cup.”

“Thanks.” Melissa took a sip of coffee and sighed. It was made just the way she liked it. Wait a minute. Did Damian say he heard me get up? Melissa looked back down the long hallway and frowned. Would he really have been able to hear me? Maybe he heard water running through the pipes?

Melissa inhaled through her nose and was about to ask Damian a question, but the words went right out of her head. She drew in another deep breath and groaned when her body reacted to that amazing scent. When she looked up into Damian’s brown eyes, she could have sworn they were glowing, but after blinking and looking again she figured she had imagined it. But there was no way to mistake the lust in his gaze.

“You feel it, don’t you, baby?” Damian moved closer.

“What?” Melissa felt like she was being enveloped in a haze of lust and couldn’t seem to get her body to move back. Not that she really wanted to. In fact, she wanted to be as close to him as possible.

“You feel the attraction to Luke and me, too, don’t you?” He took another step forward and she frowned up at him.

Why is my head so foggy? Why do I want to jump your bones? You are so damn sexy, all I want to do is touch you and your brother.

Melissa frowned and, finally getting her body to cooperate with her mind, took a step back, and then she bumped into the wall. Damian kept right on coming until there were bare inches separating his body from hers. He was so damn handsome she couldn’t take her eyes off his face. She loved the stubble along his jawline and wanted to reach out to see what it felt like. She hadn’t even realized she started to do just that until her hand moved in front of her face, and she quickly dropped it back down to her side again.

Damian clasped her hand in his and then brought it up to his face and flattened her palm against his cheek. “You can touch me anytime and anywhere you like, baby. Don’t be shy with me.”

She drew in a ragged breath when he moved her hand on his face and she had to push down the giggle forming in her chest when his whiskers tickled her skin.

“Do you like touching me, Melissa?”

“Yes.”

“That’s real good, baby. I would love to touch you all over and have your hands all over me.”

It took a moment for her to register what he’d said and when she did, she tugged her hand from his face. “What are you doing to me?”