I Paid a Stranger Fifteen Hundred Dollars to Be My Boyfriend for My Father's Birthday Weekend, and He Obeyed Every Order I Gave novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: No Orders

"What's the second thing?" I said.

It was seven on Tuesday morning.

The light through the blue curtains had turned the whole guest room the color of the inside of a shell.

Ben lay facing me on the pillow, close enough that I could count his eyelashes.

He had slept with one hand on my hip all night, and he hadn't moved it.

"You said to ask you in the morning," I said.

"I did."

"It's morning."

"So it is."

He was quiet.

His thumb moved on my hipbone, once.

"I want to do this with the light on," he said. "I want it slow. I want us face to face the whole time, and I want you not to tell me one thing to do."

I looked at him.

"That's three things."

"Is it?"

"You asked for three."

"I'm greedy this morning."

"Good," I said. "I'm not going to tell you anything."

"Okay."

"I'm going to ask you."

"Okay."

"I'm asking you to kiss me, Ben."

He did.

It wasn't an order, and it wasn't a rehearsal, and he didn't wait to be cued.

He kissed me, slow and soft and thorough.

His hand moved up my side and into my hair.

I kissed him back.

The kiss went on until the room went quiet around it.

His mouth moved to my jaw, and my neck, and the soft place under my ear.

I turned my face to give him more of it.

"I love how you smell in the morning," he said.

"Like what?"

"Like warm bread. Like clean sheets."

"Like your mother's pie?"

"Don't talk about my mother when I'm kissing you."

I laughed against his throat.

I slid my hand down his chest, over the scar, over his stomach, and wrapped it around him.

He was already hard and hot in my palm.

He drew in a breath.

I stroked him once, gently, and let go.

"I want to touch you," he said, with a half smile. "Asking is what I do."

"I like it when you ask."

"Then I'm asking."

"Yes."

His hand slid between my thighs.

I opened my leg and hooked it over his hip, so we lay on our sides, pressed together.

His fingers found me slick and ready.

He touched me softly, with the lightest circles, and watched my face.

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