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I smiled at him. “Yeah, I think they are.”
When I got to Harley’s house a few minutes later, I could tell she’d been thinking about my earlier proposal. She had a hard time looking me in the eye, and kept twisting her hands together like she was nervous. It was weird. We’d spent hours together earlier in the day talking, but now it had gone back to being awkward. At first, I wondered if I’d done something wrong. I assumed that she was still trying to figure out how to act around me.
I was pulling the containers out of the paper bag in the kitchen when I asked, “Are you okay?”
“Huh? Yeah, why?”
I leaned against the counter. “You know, this whole shy, unsure, timid thing you’ve got going on is cute.”
She frowned. “What does that mean?”
I nodded at her hands. She was twisting and untwisting the hem of her T-shirt. She glanced down and immediately stopped fiddling with it.
“The thing is, I’ve seen you naked, Harley. I know what your moans sound like. After all that, I don’t know why I still make you nervous.”
Her face went scarlet, and her jaw dropped slightly. She finally grinned. “I was drunk, okay.”
I laughed. “You weren’t that drunk. But if that’s the excuse you want to use for all the dirty things you did, then I’ll let you have it.”
Harley gasped but was smiling when she did it; her face grew even redder. “What a jerk.”
I laughed and went back to the food. “I got the garlic bread and pasta with cream sauce, pasta with red sauce, and a side of meatballs too. I wasn’t sure if you wanted some protein to go with your carbs. And there’re two pieces of cheesecake for dessert.”
“Oh god,” she groaned as she saw the food. It was an almost sexual sound, and I was immediately aroused.
I shook the thoughts away. “When I checked on your car, it actually looked pretty good. It was all just surface damage. Nothing mechanical. It should be good as new once they’re done.”
“Thank you again, Tate. For everything. I don’t know what I would have done without you.”
“No problem at all. I’m happy to help with everything.” Changing the topic, I said, “The girls were at the restaurant when I picked up the food.”
“Yeah? I guess that makes sense.”
“Mariah came up and told me she knows.”
“Oh,” Harley said. “Yeah, she told me she knew, too.”
“Are you going to tell Jordyn soon?” I asked.
She sighed and slumped into a chair with her plate. “I want to, but she’s so young. I’m not sure she’ll really be able to get her head around the situation.”
I sat beside her with my own plate and nodded reluctantly. “I can see that, but do you really want her to be the only one in the dark? The longer it goes on, the more likely she’ll put it all together. She may be hurt if she realizes she was the only person who didn’t know. Even small secrets can hurt a family. Mine, for example, was big on secrets. It was part of what drove us apart.”
I didn’t elaborate on the biggest secret they kept. The fact that they’d planned a mating ceremony without my knowledge or consent. Had demanded I mate with the girl they’d picked for me, and then disowned me when I refused. Secrets were not a healthy thing. Thankfully, Harley didn’t pry.
“I guess you’re right. I can’t have her stumbling around in the dark while the rest of us knows. I’ll have to find the right time to tell her. It’ll take me some time to figure out how to explain it.”
“Well, I’ll be there with you, so that should make it easier,” I said.
She seemed surprised by my offer. I smiled and shook my head again. “We
are working on being together. If I’m in your life and the baby’s life, then that means I’ll be in Jordyn and Mariah’s life. It’s only right that I’m there for things like this. I’m not just in this for you or the baby. If this works out, I want to be what those girls need, too.”
Harley’s eyes misted over, and I had an overwhelming urge to comfort her—in fact, my dragon demanded it. I lifted her and set her on my lap, gently wiping away the tears that had spilled down her cheeks.
“I’m sorry. I’m a big blubbering mess. I think it’s the hormones.”
I didn’t want her to apologize for something I understood. “It’s okay. You can cry whenever you need to. I’ve got a shoulder ready to cry on any time.”
Harley smiled and looked at me. Our eyes connected, and I couldn’t look away. She stared into my eyes, and it was like she was staring right into my soul. Neither of us spoke as the tension built. Our eyes stayed locked on each other as the seconds ticked by, and each second increased the feeling that something needed to happen. I knew exactly what I wanted. I stared into Harley’s eyes and remembered the way we’d been all those months ago in New York. The taste of her nipples, the sound of her moaning, her hand on my cock.
“Fuck it,” I mumbled and kissed her.
This wasn’t a quick peck on the lips like I’d done before. It wasn’t even the deeper kiss we’d shared earlier today. This was hard, wet, and intense. Our tongues twisting and fighting, our breath mingling as our breathing got heavier. Harley’s hands ran through my hair, and I picked her up and carried her to the couch.
The kiss broke for a moment as I laid her on the couch. She had a hungry, demanding look in her eyes that told me she wanted what I wanted. My dragon was ready to claw its way out of my chest if we didn’t get to it. I peeled her clothes off until she lay naked beneath me. The girls would be home soon, so this would need to be fast. I’d take my time to fuck her brains out next time. Right now, it was going to be all about her.
Sliding to my knees in front of her, I grabbed her legs and nudged her toward me. She laughed until I slid my face between her legs and slid my tongue along her pussy, flicking her clit with the tip of my tongue. Her laugh turned to a gasping moan. Her fingers dug into my hair as I slid my tongue in and out of her. One hand slid around and massaged her clit while another