He Let Her Rip Our License, So I Married Another Man novel · Chapter 14 of 24

Chapter 14: The Lake House

Benedict stopped in the front hall and looked at my feet.

"You're bleeding on your grandfather's floor," he said.

"The gravel did it."

"Sit."

I sat on the kitchen counter in the blanket and my ruined dress, and he found a dish towel and ran it under the tap.

He knelt in front of me in his good suit trousers.

He took my left ankle in one hand and held it still.

No one had ever knelt to do that for me.

He cleaned the cut on my heel with the wet cloth, slowly, and my breath caught.

His thumb pressed the arch of my foot, and a hot line went straight up the inside of my leg.

He felt me jerk.

He did not look up.

"Benedict."

"I'm almost done."

"I'm not talking about my foot."

He looked up then.

His eyes were dark in the light over the stove, and his hand stayed where it was, warm around my ankle.

I put the ring down on the counter beside me.

"I need to ask you something, and I need you to answer it plainly," I said. "If I take you to bed tonight, will you think it's because of Cade?"

"Will you?"

"No. I thought about him exactly once, on the walk down the road, and it was how little I wanted to."

"Then I won't think it."

"Good," I said. "Because I want you on the porch."

He stood so quickly the dish towel fell.

I slid down off the counter and took his hand, and I led him out through the screen door into the cold.

The porch swing hung from two chains at the far end.

I pushed him down on it and climbed over his lap, with the blanket falling off my shoulders.

"Zip," I said.

He found the zipper at my back and drew it down, one slow inch, and the night air touched my spine.

I shivered, and he put his mouth on the place between my shoulder blades.

"Cold?"

"No. Don't stop."

He pushed the dress off my shoulders and down to my waist.

I was not wearing a bra under it.

He made a rough sound in his throat and cupped my breasts in both palms, and then his mouth was on my nipple, hot against the cold, and I put my head back and gripped the chain of the swing.

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