His hand tightened lightly against my waist afterward.
“You’ve barely let go of me since I got back,” he murmured.
Heat climbed slowly into my face, but I didn’t move away.
“I know.”
“I’m not complaining.”
The way he said that sent heat through me so quickly it almost annoyed me. Honestly this was becoming embarrassing at this point. One look from him and suddenly I couldn’t think properly anymore.
Ridge noticed the change in my breathing immediately.
His fingers slid lightly along my jaw before he kissed me softly. The kiss stayed slow at first. Careful too. Then my hands moved into his hair and everything changed after that.
The tension from the rest of the day disappeared somewhere between his mouth against mine and his hands pulling me closer. Ridge shifted me fully into his la
