Bleeding Out While He Said I Do novel · Chapter 18 of 32
Chapter 18: Stay
Morgan didn't move.
He stood one step below me, so for once we were eye to eye.
"You sure?" he said. "Say it plain. I'm a simple man."
"I'm sure. My doctor cleared me. Ruthann has the baby. I want you upstairs, Morgan."
"Copy," he said, very quietly.
I opened the door.
We went up my father's stairs in the dark, on the edges of the steps where they didn't creak.
I'd known which ones creaked since I was eleven.
Halfway up, behind the spare room door, Ruthann coughed.
Once. Loudly. On purpose.
Morgan froze on the step.
I put my hand over my mouth so I wouldn't laugh, and pulled him the rest of the way by his shirt.
The door clicked shut and I let my head fall back against it.
Morgan was already unbuttoning the last of his flannel, watching me with his eyes gone dark in the streetlight through the front window.
"Go ahead," I said. My voice came out in my dispatcher's register, steady and low. "I want to see you."
He pulled the shirt off and dropped it on my floor.
His chest was broad and solid, the hair dark, and his left arm had that shiny pink scar from the arc flash.
I'd touched it on the overlook.
Now I wanted my mouth on it.
"Your turn," he said.
I pulled my sweater over my head.
The air hit my skin and my nipples went tight under the plain cotton bra I'd put on that morning.
Morgan's jaw tightened.
He didn't reach for me yet.
"The rest," I said. "Go on."
"You're giving orders, Four."
"You're taking them, Nine."
He unbuttoned my jeans slowly, one button at a time, and peeled them down my legs.
I stepped out of my boots first, then the jeans.
When his knuckles brushed the bruise on my hip, I sucked in a breath.
He stopped.
His thumb hovered over the mark, not touching.
"Your truck's fault," I said.
He knelt.
He kissed the bruise, his beard scraping the thin skin of my hip, and I had to grip the door handle behind me to stay upright.
"Say it plain," he said against my skin. "I'm a simple man."
"Yes, Morgan. Yes. I want you in my bed. I want you to fuck me."
He stood and unhooked my bra and took it off.
My underwear followed, his fingers slow at my hips, and then I was naked in the streetlight.
Morgan dropped his jeans and his boxers and kicked them aside.
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