StriporTreat
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How could she feel so edgy, so excited, so overwhelmed and unsure of what he was doing all at the same time?
“You don’t have to do this,” she mumbled half under her breath.
“But I do,” he disagreed as he kicked off his shoes. The sight of him standing there with no shirt, no shoes and his pants unsnapped almost did her in. Could she take much more? She wanted to taste him, kiss him, know he was real and hers.
He was baring his soul. But in his kiss she’d know. Know if he was truly giving his heart to her.
She started to stand but he shook his head. “Uh-uh. Sit down, Sophia. This is for you.”
She wanted to argue that if it was for her, she wanted it her way. His mouth on hers. Apparently, this was something he needed to do. She slid her hands back beneath her quivering thighs.
With exaggerated motions he slid off his pants. Have mercy. Had he been wearing underwear? If so he’d managed to remove both in his suave movements.
The music’s tempo picked up and Gray danced to her and took her hand, pulled her to her feet.
“Say my name,” the lyrics demanded.
“Kiss me, Gray.”
Uncertainty clouded his eyes for a second. As if he really wanted to finish his dance but then he smiled and she knew everything was going to be all right. That she didn’t have to find herself, because from the moment her soul had connected with Gray, her heart had known exactly who she was.
The other half of something beautiful. Something special and unique. The other half of Gray.
“I love you, Sophia. With all my heart and all my soul,” he told her before covering her lips with his.
Yep, she’d known his kiss would reveal all. And it did. Gray loved her. It was there in the reverence of his touch, the tremor that passed through his body at the contact, her responding tremor.
“I love you too. So very much,” she told him when his mouth lifted from hers.
“You forgive me?”
She nodded. “You aren’t the only one needing redemption. I had some growing up to do. I’m not sure I could have done that with you by my side. Don’t take me wrong. It’s not that I didn’t want to be with you but it took these past months of being on my own to make me realize what I’d found in my relationship with you. To realize that I do trust you with my heart.”
“A part of me knew you needed time away from Atlanta and even Nashville. Time to assimilate everything you discovered about yourself, both past and present.”
“You sensed that?”
“Deep inside, yes. On the outside I was hurting that you hadn’t trusted me. But I didn’t deserve your trust because I was holding back. No more. All that I am, I give to you.”
He kissed her again. Slowly and sensually.
“Gray?”
“Uhm?”
The lyric hit a crescendo in the background. “Say my name. Say my name.”
“I want you to finish stripping in the bedroom.”
Looking confused, he dropped his gaze to the tops of his feet. The only covered part of his body.
She smiled. “Better yet, I’ll finish stripping you but…”
“But?”
“No buts about it.” She smiled again, knowing all would work out for her and Gray. “Those socks have got to go.” She leaned in and breathed in his rich masculine scent. “Maybe, I’ll take them off with my teeth.”
“That’s something we haven’t done.”
“Not yet but we will.”
Oh yeah. During the next fifty plus years, she imagined she and Gray would do a lot of those “not yet” things. Nothing was impossible now that she and Gray had stripped away all the unimportant things and knew that the real treat in life was sharing each moment together.
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