Total pages in book: 137
Estimated words: 135696 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 678(@200wpm)___ 543(@250wpm)___ 452(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 135696 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 678(@200wpm)___ 543(@250wpm)___ 452(@300wpm)
His chest expanded.
Feeling his friend’s eyes on him, he turned his head.
Murph had a look on his face Riggs had never seen, but seeing it then, his chest expanded even more.
Then Murph tipped the bottom of his beer Riggs’s way, and looked to the women, saying to Maribeth, “Trade you pics of our kids.”
They both pulled their phones out.
“We could use music, baby,” Nadia said softly to Riggs.
To which, Riggs shouted “Son! Go get the Bluetooth!”
“On it, Dad!” Ledger shouted in return.
Riggs settled back.
And life was good.
THIRTY-THREE
She Shed
Riggs
The next day, Murphy was in town, visiting some of his other friends, and Riggs was in his workshop, getting some work done, when Nadia showed.
He looked at her through his mask, killed the blowtorch, set it aside, tossed off his gloves and pulled off the mask, and then dropped it to the workbench before he headed her way.
“All good?” he asked.
“Murphy in town?”
He stopped in front of her. “Yeah.”
“Ledger fishing with Kirk and Dustin?”
“Left first thing this morning.”
“Maribeth is in the shower.”
Riggs grew still.
They hadn’t fucked since Tuesday.
“She takes long showers,” Nadia told him.
Riggs jumped her.
They kissed and groped as he backed her to the couch.
He stopped them at the arm, she flicked off her ridiculous Birks, and he took care of her jeans and panties.
Then he leaned into her, and they both went over the arm of the couch.
He pushed her tee up, tugged the cup of her bra down and sucked hard at a nipple.
She sifted her fingers in his hair and whimpered his name.
He moved up to take her mouth again, dove a hand between her legs and encountered her sweet, hot wet.
She went after the buttons on his jeans.
She’d pulled him out and was stroking, tight and hard, at the same time he was finger fucking her, when it hit him.
He broke their kiss.
“Fuck, honey, my wallet is in the house.”
“You clean?” she breathed.
“Totally.”
“You sure?” Her voice was still wispy because he was still finger fucking her, and she was still jacking him.
“I’m active, Nadia, so I take precautions and get tested. So yeah, I’m sure.”
“I am too. Had my annual with my gyno before I left Chicago. And I have an implant.”
Fucking fantastic.
“Ungloved?” he asked.
She slid her hand down his dick, holding him tight at the base, and…fuck. That felt good.
“That’s up to you,” she whispered.
He stared into her blue eyes.
She stared into his.
Then he slid his finger out and jerked his jeans over his ass.
“Legs,” he grunted.
She let his cock go and rounded him with her legs.
He used his hand to guide him, caught, and slipped inside, for the first time feeling her wet as her usual heat and tight closed around him.
Christ.
Gorgeous.
He dropped his forehead to hers and saw the tears in her eyes.
She felt it too. All of it. How important this was. The trust he just gave her after what happened to him. What this meant for them both.
Then he slanted his head, kissed her and fucked her.
After he took care of them both, they didn’t have time to keep at it or do much aftermath making out and feeling each other up. She had to get back to her friend.
She slid out from under him.
He rolled to his ass and stayed seated as he yanked up his jeans and did the buttons, his eyes tracking Nadia while she extricated her panties from her jeans and pulled them up.
She’d been hungry for him.
She probably had fifteen, twenty minutes, and she’d hightailed her ass down the trail to spend it with him.
It was time.
“I’m falling for you, princess,” he declared.
Her head snapped his way one second, the next, she was astride his lap, doing her best to stick her tongue down his throat.
He cupped her ass in both hands and kissed her back, but she ended it when she realized he was doing that while laughing.
“I hope that’s happy laughter,” she warned.
“What else would it be? Since you used your tongue to communicate direct with my larynx you feel the same,” he replied.
She slapped his arm and ordered, “Stop it, Riggs.”
He gave her ass cheeks a squeeze and belatedly answered, “Yes, it’s happy laughter.”
“Good,” she murmured, her eyes moving all over his face like she was drinking him in.
“Can’t express how thrilled I am you’re there with me, Nadia, but it isn’t lost on me this is complicated,” he warned.
“The most foolish thing a woman can do is uproot her life for a man,” she replied.
His whole body got tight.
“But most women don’t have an occupation where they can find a job practically anywhere, and a massive bank account to fall back on should things go awry,” she continued, and put a hand to his cheek. “It’s too soon to make this decision, but I want you to know, I’m falling for you too. I’ve already fallen for Ledger. Gia won’t like my apartment as much as she likes this lake, and Ledger may never forgive me for taking her away from him. And I like Misted Pines, although I’m uncertain about Kimmy, but she seems harmless. So you should know, I was already considering it.”