It made my heart feel warm to hear him talk about Pam like that. I worried he wouldn’t be able to get comfortable with the idea of her as an ongoing part of our lives. He’d agreed to have Pam watch Willa that night and said he appreciated her, but there was a part of me that still worried he would try to phase her out. Now I knew he saw how valuable she was and would want her to be a part of our daughter’s life as much as I did.
“I’m going to take a shower,” I told him. “Get this bowling alley smell off me.”
“I’ll come with you,” he said. I gave him a look, and he held up his hands in mock innocence. “Purely for the sake of water conservation.”
“Of course. I’ve always known how important the cause of water conservation is to you,” I told him.
“It all starts with one drop,” he said.
I laughed and we headed down the hallway. After a few steps, a thought jumped into my mind, and I turned around. The sharp movement made Darren step back a bit, and he looked at me questioningly.
“Something you said before, it’s bothering me,” I said.
“What is it?” he asked. “Something I said tonight?”
“No,” I said, shaking my head. “Not tonight. You said it when we were talking about getting the DNA results about Willa. You said when you got the results if you found out I was telling the truth and wasn’t just after your money. I don’t really understand why you would say that.”
Darren looked at me incredulously.
“Are you serious?” he asked.
“Yes,” I said nodding. “I mean, I’m not rich. I don’t come from a lot of money or anything, but my family has always done fine. And now I work two jobs, the one at the garage and freelance working on mechanic manuals. So, I’m doing okay for myself. Willa and I always have what we need. So, it’s not that. Plus, I guess, I figured your parents were wealthy because they started the company, and Quentin obviously has money because he owns it now and has built it up. But I never really thought about you in those terms so much.”
Darren stared at me for a second before he started laughing. The sound burst out of him and kept coming until he had to reach out and hold himself up on the wall beside us. I was not amused by the reaction.
“What?” I asked. “What is possibly so funny about that?”
Darren got himself together and shook his head, taking me by the shoulders and giving me a quick kiss.
“You really don’t know?” he asked.
“I really don’t know what?”
“You seriously should have Googled me, sweetheart. I’m a millionaire.”
I felt like I was going to choke.
“You are?” I asked.
He nodded. “Yes. And I’ve had women try to sleep with me for my money before. All of us have. That’s a big part of why we haven’t been so great with relationships.”
All I could do was stare at him with wide eyes as I tried to process what he just told me. But I didn’t have long to think about it. Darren was staring at me with heat in his eyes. I shook my head. The money wasn’t important. But getting my hands on him was.
Our lips crushed together, his tongue parting mine to explore my mouth with a hunger for the taste of my breath. I returned that hunger, running my hands across his chest, ever downward to the bulge already formed in his pants. My hand clasped over it and squeezed gently, eliciting a moan from the mouth that covered mine, echoing in my cheeks and reverberating down my spine, lighting up every sensitive nerve along the way. I craved his body and wanted him buried deep inside me as soon as I could. His rock-hard cock strained at the zipper of his pants, and I slipped my fingers to ease it down.
Darren broke the kiss, moving down my jaw to my neck, and I lifted my head to give him more access. The zipper slid down easily, and I worked with the button of his pants, letting them drop to the floor unceremoniously as I ripped at the waistband of his boxers. His cock sprung out at me, and I took in a breath as its warmth and thickness brushed against my leg. Stroking it, I felt him groan under my touch before he pushed me back toward the bed.
The edge of the bed surprised me, and I fell onto it, but his hands were already lifting my shirt. As soon as it came off, I reached behind me to unhook my bra, and the growl that filled his chest when my heavy breasts tumbled out sent a direct line of heat through my center. I collapsed into his stomach, trailing kisses down the center of him, letting my tongue leave a line to his cock. I took him into my mouth and moaned. He returned the sound and filled his hand with my hair.
Guiding me in my motion, he pulled me to him, and I let his thickness slide as far down my throat as I dared. I relished in the salty-sweet taste of him, and my fingers wrapped around the base to stroke him into me as I bobbed back and forth. I forced myself to open my eyes and looked up into Darren’s. Delight filled me as I watched his face contort in pleasure as my mouth worshipped his body. He leaned his head back and closed his eyes as I increased my speed. Suddenly, Darren looked down and gently pulled me away from him.
“Not yet,” he whispered, and a new wave of desire scorched through my core.
I wiggled back on the bed, pushing at the waistband of my pants as I did so they came down my legs, and he pulled them away before I got to the pillows. I rested my head on
