Even with a man’s mouth on her cunt in a public dressing room she had a sense of humour.
He finished her with three fingers pressed deep, stroking her sweet spot, sucking her clit in and out until she came with a growl of his name.
He stood as she slumped onto the seat. ‘I’ll go pay for this while you get dressed, shall I?’
Licking his lips, he grabbed the dress and headed out, wearing a smile.
True to his promise, he did look down her shirt as she tried shoes on, but she barely noticed anything but the hard-on pressing against the front of his pants.
‘Keep looking at it like that and I’m going to pull it out and shove it into your mouth right here and now,’ he said as he took the packages from her to carry.
‘We move in together within the next few months. Once we find a house we like with enough room for all our combined baggage,’ she began as they walked back to the hotel. ‘I’ll put my condo on the market when we get back.’
‘Good thing I’m used to the way you just wander around between topics,’ he muttered. ‘Fine. Agreed. I’d like you to stay over at my old house when I have the girls with me. I know it’ll be a bigger hassle work wise for you, but aside from wanting you with me, it sends a very clear signal to Eve. You and I are together no matter where we are. And to the girls that you’re behind me being where they need me most when they need it. I know you don’t want to be an underline, but this is much more than that. This is the truth staring her in the face without letting her look away.’
‘Agreed. Although it’d be nice if I could just slap the shit out of her. I change my mind about the “no Eve calling our house” rule. I only want her contacting you that way. She’s like one of those yappy dogs who needs a very hard lesson. The lesson is this.’ Kate stopped and took his face in her hands. People walked around them but she heard and felt nothing but him. ‘You’re mine. She is nothing but the mother of your kids and that I respect. Otherwise, she better deal with the fact that I am your woman because I’m not giving her any way around that. I won’t interfere in your parenting of your kids, but for all other contact, she has to come through me. We’ll nip this little comprehension problem of hers right in the bud. Later, I don’t care, but for the next little while, Eve will know who is in charge. And it’s a woman who can open her own jars.’
He leant down just a bit, brushing his lips against hers. ‘And you’ll still marry me next year sometime?’
Kate laughed and jumped back, tugging him towards the hotel. ‘God, you’re like a dog with a bone.’
‘Here’s what I know, I’d be marrying you in five minutes if you’d go for it, so yes, I’m not going to give up.’
‘All right. October. I want a small intimate ceremony. Less than twenty people. Your daughters will be part of it. Then that night we get straight on a plane somewhere lovely. I don’t need pomp and circumstance. I want to make it legal, involve our closest loved ones and then party. This doesn’t mean you don’t have to provide me with a ring. That needs to happen soon. Let me advise you away from that monstrosity Pickles has. I like big, but I like tasteful too. Then again, I wouldn’t wear my engagement ring nearly a decade after I got dumped. But we’ve established I’m an order of magnitude above Pickles.’ She looked down at the ring he’d just given her for Christmas. ‘This is beautiful, you can keep going in this direction.’
He snorted a laugh. ‘I’d tell you to just pick something out and tell me what you want but I know that would be a violation of the code or whatever. I think I can manage something appropriately fabulous. October it is. I’ll talk to my travel agent when we get back to have him start looking into honeymoon ideas.’
‘If we hurry I think we can catch that elevator before the doors close,’ she said, pulling him along.
18
A SIMPLE BAND of gold. Nothing etched on it or inside it. No words. This wasn’t for anyone else, it was for them, and neither Brandon nor Leah needed a reminder of what the ring meant.
He’d never worn rings, not even for a high-school class or a sports team. He’d pierced his ears in college and worn silver hoops in both of them for a short time, but now he wasn’t even sure he could force an earring through the old holes. Brandon stood in front of the mirror naked, the hand with the ring on it on his belly. Staring.
Leah, wearing only a pair of filmy black panties and a matching bra, came into the bathroom as she slid on a pair of dangling earrings she’d bought from the same guy who’d made the ring. She paused. Her gaze met his in the mirror.
‘You’re not dressed,’ she said.
His cock stirred at the cool command in her voice and the no-nonsense look she gave him. Angry Leah was formidable to see, but she hardly ever got mad at him. Her discipline always came from a different place for Brandon.
‘We’re going to be late. You know I hate being late.’
He didn’t point out that by the sounds coming faintly through the walls, Kate and Dix weren’t exactly rushing to get downstairs, either. Or that it was still early evening, hours away from midnight. Or that they were in Vegas, where you couldn’t be late for anything, because
