Adored by Carolyn Faulkner Read Free Book Online

could be a little dense.  It took her a bit to catch onto why he was dwelling on what was essentially the same question rephrased five different ways.  Laughing softly, she let her voice get all throaty and low.  “And what might you be wearing at this moment in time, Mr. Maddox?”
     
    “I’m dressed, dammit, but I can be undressed in a matter of seconds.” he offered eagerly, “Really I can.”
     
    That sounded about as close to pleading as she’d ever heard from him.  “Well, unfortunately neither of us has time to indulge in phone sex, not that I’m opposed to such things as a rule. But I don’t want to be late for work.”
     
    She heard his frustrated sigh, but was working on one of her own so she had little sympathy for him.  After waiting for several long beats, she said, “Did you have a purpose for calling me at such an ungodly hour, or was it just to find out whether or not I was dressed?”
     
    “Mmmmmmm,” he groaned, then forcibly brought himself back to the reason he was calling.  “My truck died.  Can you give me a ride to work?”
     
    “Of course.  I’ll be there in about a half-hour.”
     
    “Will you be wearing what you’re wearing now, please?”
     
    She leaned back a bit to see the thermometer through the sliding glass doors to the deck, “Sean, it’s three below zero out there.  Any parts of me that you might have any interest in will have frozen solid and fallen off by then.”
     
    Tessa liked the sound of his laugh, more so for its rarity.  It was warm and full and very deep, and it went right to her clit, somehow - like most of what he said or did, she was realizing.
     
    “I gotta ask you another favor, though.”
     
    “Yes?”
     
    “Can I keep the car for the morning?  I have to go into Portsmouth to get some special parts for a customer and I need transportation to do that this morning.”
     
    “Sure – I’m just going to be at the shop all day, as always.  You can keep it for as long as you need to, as far as I’m concerned.  Just pick me up tonight.  We were going out to dinner anyway, right?”
     
    “Yes.  Thank you.  You’re an angel.”
     
    Tessa flushed at the compliment.  “Just remember that the next time you decide to spank me .  .  .”
     
    Of course, it sounded easier than it worked out to be, especially for her.
     
     
    She didn’t hear from him at all during the day, which was a bit unusual.  They usually chatted at least once, usually more.  He called her or she called him, or he stopped by about the time she went to lunch and took her out, or brought her coffee.  But that day, nothing.  She saw neither hide nor hair of him from the time he dropped her off until he walked through the door just before eight o’clock that night.
     
    Since there was no one in the store, she had already done all the little things that she usually did once the store had officially closed, and she had been on the way to the front to lock i[.  Spying Sean, instead she threw herself into his arms and hugged him, and, although he did hug her back, she sensed that he was holding back.
     
    She really started to worry.  Was he going to break up with her?
     
    Before she could pull away from him, though, that hard arm had snaked around her waist, holding her fixed in place, as he twisted a bit to turn the lock on the door and flip the “Open” sign to “Closed”.
     
    “Is everything all right?” Tessa asked, a bit concerned by the serious look on his face, hoping that it was just a stupid mechanical issue that had put it there.  “Was your truck not fixable?”
     
    Sean maneuvered them so that he was leaning up against a wall, and she, in turn, was leaning up against him because he had so far refused to let her go.  “My truck was fixed within an hour of the time I dropped you off.”
     
    “Okay, then.  Did you have a hard time finding what it was that you were looking for in Portsmouth?”
     
    “No, it was waiting for me when