She blinks. Once. Twice. Then a slow smile creeps across her face. “I’m not sure yet.” She lays her hand lightly on my chest. “We’ve got an angsty, emotional teenager and a semi-bossy ex-wife in our path, not to mention an overanxious mother who’d like nothing more than for me to marry the first man I meet and give her grandbabies.” She pats my chest. “Once we overcome all that, I guess we’ll see what else this could be.”
I nod, resting my hands on my hips. “Stay. Stay with me tonight.”
She shakes her head, regretfully. “I can’t. I drove two of the girls. But I’m looking forward to our date tomorrow.”
Chapter 15
Quinn
“Well in that case, I’m not quite done with you yet.” Liam draws me to him, holding my head between his hands, thumbs skimming over my cheekbones. His hands are rough, and I have a flash of how they’d felt holding onto my ass as he plunged inside me. Pure lust zips right down my spine and skitters along all my nerves.
He stares into my eyes, like he’s trying to figure me out. Only I’m not hiding anything. I’m kind of an open book where he’s concerned. In fact, I feel like maybe my heart has been too visible on my sleeve when it comes to him.
After all, until tonight, most of the advances have been made by me. I’m the one who tracked him down, not once but twice. And I won’t deny it—I’d been after his hot, well-muscled body, wanting to know what he’d feel like under my hands, needing him to put a stop to the rather pathetic relationship I was developing with my vibrator.
These days it’s just so difficult to make time for dating. Actually—no, wait. What is difficult is finding the right person to date. That’s actually the worst. But, yeah, between school and helping Mom out at the bakery and at home, I’m really busy. So, while I’ve never before done anything like what I’m doing with Liam now, I’m not at all surprised that when I saw an opportunity, I hopped right on him, err, it. I’m not ashamed. I’m a woman in need, dammit.
I will admit, though, that I’m glad he’s asked for a date. I guess I would have been okay if he’d only been interested in my body, but more and more it seems like he’s looking for the relationship part, too. I don’t know if that should scare the shit out of me or not, seeing as how he’s already been married once. The overriding emotion I get when I’m with Liam is contentment. Well, unless we’re having sex, and then it’s just bliss.
Liam’s masculine lips cover mine, coaxing me to respond. I can’t ever help myself when I’m with him. My lips part, and I invite his tongue inside to tangle with mine. My heart begins to pound behind my rib cage, threatening to burst from my body. One kiss turns into three, and those turn into an all-out grab fest. Liam’s hands are all over my ass as my hand sneaks between us to cup him. He growls from somewhere deep in his chest. That’s what finally snaps us out of our lust-induced haze.
We stop, foreheads touching, and I pat his chest. “I really should get back to
my friends now.”
“Think they’ll know what we were up to back here?” He shoots me the cutest grin ever.
My heart melts into a puddle at my feet. I’ve got to get out of here before I lose my mind.
“Once you get to know them, you won’t even have to ask that sort of question.” I wink over my shoulder as I leave Liam in his office. I am truly excited for our date tomorrow night. But right now? My friends are waiting. And I have no freaking clue how long I’d been preoccupied by Liam and his soft, sensual lips and magical-as-fuck fingers.
Five pairs of eyes track me as I enter the main room and make haste to the table. I tuck my hair behind my ears and sit, giving everyone a glance and a red-faced, apologetic smile. “Sorry. Liam had some questions. What’d I miss out on?”
The silence is deafening right before Sophia snorts. “Nothing more interesting than what was going on back there.”
I sputter. “I didn’t. We didn’t …”
“Sweetie, you sound a little dick dizzy,” Hadleigh says with an amused laugh.
I shake my head. Maybe there’s something to what she’s saying. My brain feels a little like mush right now.
“Well, if you didn’t, then your mind is on it. That’s all.”
Madison slaps the table. “Good for you, Q. No one else is more deserving of a little Liam lovin’.”
Madison holds up her hand for five and Piper slaps it. “Hell yeah.” She grins at me, her eyes lit up with humor from the increased hilarity around the table.
“Oh my God, you are so bad.” A burst of laughter escapes my lips, and I cover my face with both my hands as my shoulders jerk up and down.
After we all calm down, I notice Zoey nibbling on her bottom lip, the only one showing even slight concern at the entire notion of whatever they think Liam and I were doing back there. “You like him, right, Quinn?”
Heat hits my cheeks again as he walks into the room and nods at us with a wink. “I do. Why?”
“I was just wondering what his daughter thinks. Don’t you have her in class?”
“Oh. Um, yeah.” I glance down at the table. “Liam is talking to her about it this weekend when she comes home from her mom’s.”
Zoey smiles. “Good. That’s a good idea if you plan to date him.”