He whipped his T-shirt over his head, and Carlise practically drooled. The man was gorgeous, and he was all hers.
He leaned over, unlaced his boots, kicked them and his socks off, shoved his pants and underwear down his muscular legs, then climbed onto the bed.
She and Riggs didn’t get back outside to play with Baxter for an hour and a half. They also didn’t get the shower she’d suggested. But she wasn’t complaining.
No, she had not one complaint about Riggs making her feel like the most beautiful and desirable woman in the entire universe.
Chapter Fourteen
“Are you sure you don’t want to come with me?” Chappy asked for the hundredth time.
“Positive,” Carlise told him with a smile. “I’m behind on this translation because someone keeps distracting me by taking their clothes off and being too damn sexy.”
Chappy chuckled and pulled her into him. They were in the kitchen after a morning spent in bed. He’d woken up with her mouth on his cock, and he honestly thought he was going to die with pleasure. She’d ended up making him come that way, which was actually a blessing because it gave him enough control to thoroughly pleasure her before he needed to be inside her again. She’d come twice—once on his face and again on his fingers—before he’d pushed his way inside her and orgasmed a second time.
Chappy couldn’t stop thinking about having a child with Carlise. She was beautiful now, but she’d be even more so round with their baby. He had a feeling the first time he came inside her without a condom, he’d knock her up. Of course, life didn’t always work that way, but with how lucky they’d been so far, he was pretty sure they wouldn’t have any problems conceiving.
It was uncanny how well they fit together. From their desire to have four children to her love of the same kinds of books he liked to the way they were both perfectly happy hanging out at the cabin without a phone, internet, or TV. She was made for him, and he’d do everything in his power to treat her so well, she’d never want to leave him.
Four days had passed since she’d reached out to her mom and best friend, and as much as he wanted to continue to hide away from the world, the messages on her phone were constantly in the back of his mind. He needed to get the ball rolling on figuring out who was stalking her and make sure it stopped. Make sure both Carlise and her loved ones were safe.
“Riggs?” she asked. “Is everything all right?”
He forced himself to concentrate on the here and now. “Everything’s fine. I’ll probably be gone for at least five hours. Will that be okay?”
“I’ll be fine. And I don’t want you spending a ton of money on my car. I can pay for whatever needs to be done.”
Chappy nodded, but in his head, he was already making plans. She wasn’t paying for the repairs on her car. He didn’t want or need her money. If she wanted to spend it on Baxter or their kids or their friends, he had no problem with that, but the neanderthal inside him wanted to provide for her. Wanted to give her everything she wanted or needed.
“You’re totally ignoring me, aren’t you?” she asked with a roll of her eyes.
“I hear you,” Chappy told her.
“You hear me, but you aren’t gonna let me pay for my car, are you?”
“Nope,” he said cheerfully.
“You’re impossible,” she told him with a shake of her head.
“No, what I am is madly in love with you, and I want to treat you like you should’ve been treated in all your other relationships. It makes me happy when you’re happy, and I want to make sure your car is safe for you to be driving around in Maine.”
He loved the tender look on her face. It was obvious she wasn’t used to being taken care of, and he wanted to see her wearing that expression for the rest of their lives.
“Be careful out there. I heard you talking to JJ yesterday about the increased risk of avalanches because of the warmer weather we’ve had. And the snow isn’t all melted off the road yet. If you run off the road, Baxter won’t be there to lead you home,” she teased.
“I’ll be careful, because for the first time in my life, I have someone to come home to.”
“I love you,” she whispered as she went up on her toes to reach his mouth.
He lowered his head and kissed her with all the love he had in his heart. He pulled away long before he was ready. “If I don’t get going, I’ll never leave,” he said, running his thumb over her swollen lower lip. He couldn’t help but remember how her lips had looked stretched around his cock. His dick twitched in his pants.