Book One: Young Love
Young Lovers
“Hey, Josh!” Melissa answered the door one Sunday afternoon.
“Hey, baby.” He leaned in to kiss her softly. “Ready to go?”
“Mmm…no.”
“No?” He looked at the sleeveless blouse and shorts she wore, then noticed her feet were bare. She looked good to him, but she didn’t look ready to sit in an over-air conditioned movie theater.
“Mind if we stay in?” She took his hand, bringing him in to the living room, closing the door behind him. “Aunt Liz is gone until late tonight. We have the house to ourselves.”
“Mel?”
Leading him down a short hall, she stopped in front of a room that held a twin bed. Obviously, her bedroom.
“Mel?” JC felt himself getting aroused at the very thought of Melissa and a bed.
She stretched out on the bed, patting the comforter beside her. “Join me? But take off your shoes.”
Immediately, he kicked off his sandals and went to her. He watched as she toyed with the top button of her blouse. That button slipped the hole, the next one, then the next. The valley between her breasts was exposed to his hungry gaze – and she wasn’t wearing a bra! He wanted her to continue, but she stopped. ‘No!’ he wanted to yell, ‘Keep going! I want to see all of you!’
“Josh? You said you thought I’d taste sweet…”
“Unbutton the rest of the way,” he commanded huskily.
“Not just yet, blue-eyes.” She stroked his hair and neck, making him purr like a big cat.
“I love it when you touch me like that.”
“I love it when you touch and kiss me,” she hinted.
The first kiss was slow and seductive. Catching fire, the kisses grew hungry and demanding. JC’s hand slipped into her blouse to reacquaint himself with the feel of her breasts. Melissa boldly opened the front of his jeans to fondle the hard bulge beneath the zipper.
“Oh, God, Mel!” he moaned, pushing himself against her pleasing hand. “Baby, I’m gonna—Ah, damn!” Embarrassingly, he lost his load in his shorts; he’d been too excited to hold back. It was a powerful experience – someone else getting him off.
When he recovered, Melissa kissed him softly. “Come on. Let’s get you cleaned up.” Her voice was gentle with sympathy for his dilemma. She led him to the bathroom across the hall. He waited, but she made no move to leave him alone.
“Uh, Mel, I’ve gotta take my pants off,” he reminded her, blushing.
“I know.” She leaned against the door, her eyes on him, giving him no privacy.
“Mel…”
Pushing away from the door, she came up to him. With one hand, she brought his head down for a hot kiss; with the other, she caressed the front of his shorts.
“Mel, I’ll lose it again,” he whined.
“I know, baby, but not in your shorts this time.”
“Wha?…”
“Take off your pants,” she told him huskily.
He stared at her – disbelieving.
Taking his hand, she went to the toilet. She flipped the lid down and sat down. She tugged the jeans off his lean hips until they hit the floor.
“Melly?”
“You expect that I’ll never see you naked? Isn’t that a little impractical if we’re gonna be lovers?”
“I don’t want to scare you.”
His briefs went the way of his jeans. His eager shaft stood prominent and proud. Again, he felt the blood rush to his face as she studied this newly revealed part of his anatomy.
“I’m not scared,” she murmured as her fingers stroked and explored him.
JC leaned back against the sink and closed his eyes. It was heaven to have her soft hands on him. “Ah, sweetness, that feels so good…” Just as he was adjusting to the feel of her warm fingers, he felt a new sensation. Opening his eyes, he glanced down to see her tongue licking at him. “Oh, God!”
So, there in her aunt’s bathroom, with her sitting on the commode and him leaning against the lavatory, Melissa gave her first blowjob and JC received his first. It didn’t matter how clumsy and awkward it seemed. For him, it was perfection. His beautiful baby took it all in.
“You’re amazing,” he whispered when he recovered enough to speak.
“Josh, can I ask a favor?” Her large, dark green eyes peered up at him.
“Like there’s anything I wouldn’t do for you, Mel.”
“Will you were a condom when we make love?”
“Jeeze, baby, of course, I will, if you want me too!” If she were saying they were going to become lovers, he’d do just about anything! “I’ll have to buy some…”
“No, you won’t. Not this time. I borrowed some from Aunt Liz.”
“You mean – Now?”
“Is that a problem?”
“Hell no!”
She giggled at his enthusiasm as she rose to her feet. “I’ll go get the bed ready. You can join me after you clean your shorts – Oh, and, Josh?”
He looked back at the door where she stood. “Yeah?”
“Don’t bother putting those clothes back on,” she said, then went to her room.
How could a seventeen-year-old virgin be so hot? JC asked himself as he wiped his shorts out with a fist full of tissue. Damn! He was at full attention just thinking of Melissa naked! How could she be so calm? He was practically leaping out of his skin! Grabbing the clothing he’d shed with her help, he returned to her room. The sight that met him there knocked the air from his lungs. Melissa lay on the narrow bed naked, her long auburn hair flowing over her shoulders, making her breast play peek-a-boo. “Mel, you’re too beautiful,” he said in a rush.
“Then why are you just standing there? Come in and close the door.”
He did just that, tossing his discarded clothes to the floor as he climbed onto the bed with her. “Are you sure, baby? I love you enough to wait,” he assured her. He was earnest; he would wait for her sake.
“I’m sure, Josh. I love you, too.” She ran a soft hand under his shirt, causing a little moan of pleasure. “One of us is wearing too much,” she teased.
“Oh?…Oh, yeah…” JC felt his face grow hot once more. He was acting like a bumbling idiot! Sitting up, he fairly ripped his tee-shirt off and sent it to join the rest of his clothes on the floor. Coming back to her, he told her huskily, “I want to touch you and taste you, every inch of you. And what you did for me? I wanna do that for you, too.”
“Another time, Josh,” she said quietly as she took one of his large hands and placed it on her breast. “Right now, we have to learn each other.”
He wanted very much to please her. His baby was so giving, so open. They spent forever exploring each other with eager hands and mouths. When she finally reached for one of the foil packets on the nightstand, she showed him how to sheath himself, saying, “Aunt Liz showed me. She said if I had to do it, to do it right.” Then she guided him to her. It took every bit of his willpower not to slam into her; he was so excited. But this was his little Mel; she was small and tight and untried – and he loved her so. He moved into her heat a little at a time. When he nudged the barrier, he stopped.
“What do I do, Mel? I don’t wanna hurt you.”
She smiled bravely, stroking his hair. “I think it has to hurt the first time. Just go ahead.”
“But you’re so tiny—“
“Just do it, baby.”
With that, he closed his eyes and pushed into her to the hilt. Oh, God! It felt so great to be inside her! Opening his eyes, he saw big, fat tears roll down her cheeks. Some of his pleasure dissipated, knowing he had caused her pain. “Ah, Mel, I…”
“It’s okay, Josh. Just give me a minute,” she whispered, almost as if she hadn’t believed it would hurt as much as it had.
JC exerted self-control he hadn’t even known he possessed, holding himself off of her on fully extended arms, not moving, waiting for her to adjust to his invasion.
“It’s okay now,” she told him. “Go on.”
Tentatively, he drew back then slid back in. At her wince, he stopped again. “Mel…”
“Go ahead, baby. I don’t really expect much the first time.” She gave him a wicked, little smile, adding, “But I do anticipate we’ll get better with practice.”
He couldn’t help but respond to her light-hearted taunt. “This is practice? An undress rehearsal?”
They both laughed and the tension flowed put of them – and that was the break they had needed. JC set a slow, steady rhythm that had Melissa gasping for air.
He frowned. “What’s wrong, Mel?”
“Nothing’s wrong. I need you to go faster.”
He changed the pace of his thrusts and she gripped his forearms as if to anchor herself.
“Josh – Oh, God this feels good!”
He knew it did for him. “It does?”
“Oh, yeah, baby…Faster?”
“If you need it.” Years of athletic dancing gave him the stamina to do as she asked. “You’re really feeling it?” He was incredulous when he realized she seemed to be enjoying it as much as he was.
“Mmm…Yes, just a little more…Ah!” She had gone tight and her fingernails were digging into the flesh of his arms.
“Melly?”
“Josh!” Melissa arched into him as she shattered into bliss.
“Damn, baby!” JC groaned when her walls clenched him, causing his eruption of pure pleasure. Going limp, he collapsed upon her. “Man, that was fantastic!” he panted.
She stroked his damp, wavy hair. “You’re pretty good there, Chasez.”
“I must be crushing you.”
“No, I’m good. I like the feel of you – all hot and sweaty,” she mused.
He laughed. “Melissa Madison, you never leave it alone, do you? You gotta add that jibe.”
Looping her arms around his neck, she taunted breezily, “But you love me anyway.”
Grinning down at her, he murmured, “Yeah, sweetness, I do.” He kissed her softly. “I love you a lot, baby.”
JC woke up some time later. He and Melissa were pressed closely together in the narrow bed. He didn’t recall falling asleep or the sheet being pulled over their cooling bodies. He gazed down at her as she slept. His sweet, beautiful Mel was now his lover. How was he lucky enough to give his heart to such a fantastic girl? She was everything he could’ve asked for! Smart, confident, sexy, loving, open – adoring, as she was adorable. If anyone had told him a girl like Melissa would fall in love with him, he would have told him he was crazy. Guys like him didn’t get girls like her! But she was his! It was in his arms she had fallen asleep after making love.
“Mmm…Josh…” Melissa murmured as she came slowly awake.
“Hey, baby.”
She smiled drowsily. “Hey, yourself, handsome.”
“You’re beautiful when you sleep.” He smoothed her sleep-tousled hair. “You’re beautiful when you’re awake, too, but you look like an angel when you sleep.”
“You say the sweetest things.”
Melissa looked at the window, noticing the dimness outside. “What time is it?”
He looked at his watch. “Nearly six.”
“So, Mr. Chasez…” She rubbed her hands on his chest. “Wanna try it again?”
He shook his head.
“No? You didn’t like it?”
“It was fantastic, Mel.” He pressed his lips to her forehead. “But I’m thinking of you. I don’t wanna make you sore.”
If she were truthful, she was a little tender. JC seemed too big for her. She only hoped that would ease in time. “You are such a darling. I’m one lucky girl. Most guys wouldn’t let that matter.”
“I love you, sweetness.” That and the fact it seemed prudent not to hurt her. If she thought of lovemaking as a painful duty, then she would be less willing to participate in the future. He wanted both of them derive pleasure from their physical love.
“Well, what do you want to do then?” she asked.
“I like what we’re doing,” he said honestly. “It feels good just to hold you like this, nothing between us.”
“Josh?”
“Yeah, Mel?”
“I could fix us something to eat.”
“Why don’t we shower and I’ll take us anywhere you wanna go for dinner.”
“I have a better idea.”
“What’s that?”
“We can order in and have it delivered.”
JC didn’t know how smart that was. He’d be tempted to want to make love to her again if they lazed around there. She naturally turned him on by just little things she did – and now that he knew how wonderful it felt to be part of her… “We could end up in bed again,” he pointed out.
“That’s not a problem for me.”
“Mel…”
“You chicken, Chasez?” she teased, clucking at him.
He laughed at her taunt and rolled her to her back, coming over her. “You asked for it, you little witch!”
Melissa smiled at him. “It’s nice to get what you ask for.”
The new lovers were together whenever they possibly could. Usually, when Melissa’s aunt worked extra or had her own plans for the night. JC had found a quite little cove along a deserted stretch of beach where they could be alone, making love on a blanket with the moon and stars as their only witness. He wanted to spend a full night with Melissa, but couldn’t see lying to his parents about where he would be. So, they made love, lingered briefly in the bliss of the afterglow, then he would leave her arms. JC died a little each time her left her to sleep alone.
JC lay there simply petting Melissa and giving her tender kisses. Tonight, he had felt no overwhelming urge to have her immediately. It was nice merely being together, touching each other. They didn’t need to fill the time with conversation; their hearts were doing the talking. This was how he knew it was real love. The sex was great and he enjoyed it tremendously; but the silences weren’t empty. They were filled with the sweetness of soft kisses, lingering touches, loving gazes, and listening to each other breathe. This…This was true love at it’s very best.
“Josh?”
“Yeah, baby?”
Melissa smiled, her eyes filled with adoration. “I just felt like saying your name.”
He returned her smile. “I know. It feels good, doesn’t it?”
“Mmm-hmm.”
He tipped her chin up to meet his gaze. “I love you, Melissa. This is how I know it’s love. We can be together like this.”
“I know. Sometimes, I can hardly wait until we’re making love; then other times, I just want to be with you.”
“Mel…are you in the mood to let me try something?”
“I guess that depends on what it is.”
“I wanna go down on you.” JC blushed profusely. “I don’t know exactly how it’s done, but I wanna try…”
“Shh, blue-eyes. You let me do it to you—“
“You’re good at it!” He loved it when she took him in her mouth.
“What I was going to say…I can’t think of anything that says ‘I love you’ more than giving the other pleasure without asking anything in return.”
“Then you’ll let me fumble through?”
Melissa stroked his hair. “No. But I’ll let you give me pleasure.”
“I want it to be good for you.”
“Then it will be.”
JC reached for the buttons on her blouse. One by one, inch by inch, he revealed her body. He smoothed the top off her shoulders and slid his hands behind her to unfasten her bra. Then she was bared to the waist. “You’re so beautiful, Mel,” he sighed. He loved just looking at her.
“Josh, do me a favor.”
“Anything.”
“Take off your shirt, too.”
“Sure, baby.” He sat up to remove his shirt, then lay beside her once more. “Better?”
“I know I’m being silly—“
“No, you aren’t silly.” He lightly traces her facial features with the tips of his fingers. “Even if I couldn’t see you, I’d know how beautiful you are.” He kissed her soft cheek. “You taste so sweet. Your skin is like warm satin. You are so perfect, Melissa.”
“I’m far from perfect.”
“To me, you’re perfection.”
The first kiss was achingly tender. The next was a little rougher. The third was greedy. Their tongues dueled and mated. His large hands molded her body to his, their skin heating with slow burning passions. His mouth left hers to blaze a trail from her neck to her shoulder to the swollen buds of her breasts.
“Oh, Josh!” she gasped when he flicked his tongue around one nipple until it beaded, the he suckled hungrily. “Baby, that feels so good,” she whispered as he treated her other breast to the same delight.
From there, JC placed damp, opened-mouth kisses down her body. Encountering her navel, he teased it with the tip of his tongue, eliciting a giggle from her. He lifted his head and grinned at her. “Ticklish, sweetness?”
“I guess.”
“Where else?”
“I’m not telling!”
“Then I’ll just have to investigate.” With eager hands, he unfastened her shorts and slid them off with her panties. He sat back on his heels, admiring her naked beauty. “Venus musta looked like you,” he murmured reverently.
Melissa felt self-consciousness sweep over her again. He was so adoring – he didn’t see the flaws. Her hips and thighs were a little too generous. She wasn’t model thin. How come he didn’t see that?
He lifted one dainty foot and gently massaged it.
“How do you know a girl likes her feet rubbed?” she asked quietly.
JC kissed her instep. “My baby girl dances. Of course, her feet get a little sore.” He performed the service on the other foot. This time, when he kissed her foot, his mouth skated up her ankle, over her calf. His light touch behind her knee made her squirm. “Another ticklish spot?” he teased, sending a hand behind her other knee.
“Josh!” she gasped and giggled at the same time, drawing her legs up to prevent his torture. As she pulled her legs back, another part of her anatomy was left open for attack.
He caressed his way up her inner thighs. He had never really taken the time to investigate her womanhood. Her body was more secretive than his. Leaning forward, he nibbled and tasted the soft flesh of her thighs, moving ever closer to his ultimate destination. He stroked a gentle finger along her feminine slit until the petals parted, already glistening with dew. Lowering his head, he placed tender kisses along them, nuzzling her.
“Oh, Josh…” she purred her approval.
He continued until the inner petals parted for his touch. He hesitated. Now, what did he do? “Mel?”
Melissa reached down to pet his hair, trying to encourage him. “Go ahead, baby. You’re doing beautifully.”
“My tongue?”
“If that’s what you want.”
JC tentatively pushed his tongue into her. Her little gasp of pleasure let him know she liked it. Nudging her legs further apart to accommodate his shoulders, he began licking around the little nub he knew was the key to his success. “Melly, I love the way you taste.” And he did. She was sweet and musky.
“Mmm…I love what you’re doing…”
Her words encouraged him further. He flicked the tip of his tongue at the little bud.
“Oh!”
He knew enough about the sounds of her pleasure to know she had liked that, too! He swirled his tongue around that jewel until she was moaning and arching up. He placed his lips around it and sucked ever so gently as his tongue continued teasing it.
“Oh! Josh, that’s—Ah!”
He was rewarded with a flood of her love juices as her body tightened, then quaked. Eagerly, he lapped up her offering.
“Oh, baby, that was so good,” she purred as she floated down from the high he’d sent her on.
JC quickly shed the remainder of his clothes. “I wanna love you now, Mel.”
Smiling, she reached for a condom and made quick work of the protection.
He lowered himself into her tight, heated center. “When I’m an old, old man, I don’t think I’ll ever get over how this feels.” He leaned in to kiss her. “Or how you taste.”
Melissa ran her hands up and down his chest. “And when I’m an old, old woman, I’ll still want you this much.”
“I’ll never stop loving you, sweetness.” He rocked into her slowly, until he felt the now familiar tightening of her walls. His thrusts came fast and hard as she went taut.
“Josh!”
“C’mon, baby,” he panted. “Come for me, Melly!”
Her blissful explosion triggered his and a flood of pleasure carried them both away. In the trembling afterglow, they nuzzled and pet each other, comforting and calming the other.
Finally, JC rolled away to discard the protection and check the time. “I gotta go soon,” he told her unhappily.
“I know.”
“I hate leaving you like this. I die a little when I leave you after we make love.”
“Josh—“
“One day, I’m not going to. We’ll make love and sleep together. We won’t have to watch the clock and worry how much time we have left.”
Melissa put a finger to his lips to hush him.
He nipped at her finger. “I mean it, Mel. I’m gonna marry you and we can share a bed.”
“Do I have a say in this?” she teased. “If that was a proposal, it left a lot to be desired.”
Taking her hand, he placed a kiss in the palm. “It isn’t a proposal just yet. I have to wait awhile before I get down on my knee and ask. I wanna get you a ring and have something to offer you before I can ask.”
“What you already give me is pretty awesome, blue-eyes.”
JC shook his head and smoothed the hair away from her face. “I mean a real future. I need to be able to provide for you.”
“Josh—“
Sensing she was going to argue the point, he kissed her in that special way that left her breathless so she couldn’t speak. “I love you, Melissa,” he told her softly, then rose to dress.
She watched him, admiring his lean build. He was losing some of his shyness – at least with her. She had met a boy but was loving a very caring, considerate young man.
He caught her gaze and smiled. “I like looking at you, too.”
When he sat on the bed to tie his shoes, she moved to hug his back. “It’s more than that, Josh. I can’t believe how amazing you are.”
“I’m not the amazing one, Mel. You are.”
“I disagree. I’ve never met someone who is so decent and gentle and caring.”
Twisting around, he brought her onto his lap. “Let’s just agree we love each other and that we think the other is pretty spectacular.”
“No argument there.”
He cradled her against him for a long while, loathing to leave her. When she snuggled happily against him, his heart swelled with pride and love. “It gets harder to leave you every time,” he whispered in her hair.
“I know.” Melissa tipped her face up to meet his eyes. “I love you, Joshua Scott.”
“Thanks, baby. You always make me feel good when you say that.”
With one last tender kiss, he set her back on the bed and rose to his feet. “I’ll call you tomorrow. Maybe we can find some time together.”
“Good-night.”
“Sleep tight, baby.”
JC came to the Disney World stage where he was supposed to meet Melissa. The show was closed for the evening and he didn’t much like the idea of her riding the bus after dark.
“I said ‘no’,” Melissa told her dance partner Mark. On break from college, the good-looking 20 year old thought she should be flattered by his attention. “It’s a short enough word – even for a college boy.”
“Mel, I can stay up passed midnight—“
“What?” She had stepped out onto the stage with Mark on her heels.
“Junior has a curfew—“
“Junior? How dare you? He’s my age!”
“You don’t act like any seventeen year old girl I know. You’re hot, baby.”
She rounded on him, furious. “I hope you mean ‘hot’ as in angry. I certainly am that.”
“Problems, Mel?” JC asked from the ground when he heard the argument.
Hearing his voice, Melissa smiled. “Nothing I can’t handle, Josh.”
Unconvinced, JC hoisted himself onto the stage and went to stand behind her. Resting his hands on her shoulders, he was a little surprised when she leaned back into him. “Ready to go home, sweetness?”
“More than ready.”
She looked up at him with such adoration, JC forgot they had an audience. His hands slid down her arms to her waist. He pulled her body back, tightly against his, knowing full well she could feel how much he wanted her. She reached back to urge his head down to hers. He kissed her in that special way that made her whimper with pleasure. Then he thrust his tongue into her mouth, taking in all her wonderful flavor.
“Christ! Rent a room!” Mark grumbled.
Melissa broke the kiss, looking at the intruder with love-dazed eyes and murmured breathlessly, “You’re still here?”
“I get the picture. You want a boy, not a man.”
“You call yourself a man? You sound more like a spoiled, petulant child to me. Actually, it is much simpler than that. I want Josh. I don’t want you.”
Mark stomped off much like the brat child Melissa had named him.
“C’mon, Mel.” JC led her to the edge of the stage. He lithely jumped down, then reached up to assist her. When her arms stayed around his neck, he kissed her again. He made to straighten – she hung on. Laughing, he grabbed her thighs so she could wrap them around his waist. “Feeling frisky tonight?” he asked.
“Do we have time?”
“If we hurry.”
Melissa grinned. “Then let’s hurry!”
JC parked his car along side of a rarely used path. Reaching into the backseat, he grabbed the blanket they used for such occasions. It was kind of a wicked feeling, making love on the beach. The cove was secluded enough, but anyone could decide to take a moonlight stroll and discover the young lovers.
“C’mon, baby.” He scooted out the driver’s side and towed her along with him.
Helping her down a large dune, he kissed her hungrily once they reached the bottom. His hands were at the buttons of her blouse as she backed him towards their rendezvous spot. Melissa tore at the buttons of his shirt, scratching her nails sensuously down his chest. His moan of pleasure made her smile.
“He was right about one thing,” JC murmured as they reached their destination. He shook out the blanket and urged her to sit in the center. Kicking off his sandals, he knelt beside her.
“What’s that?” she asked as she removed her own sandals.
“You are probably the hottest seventeen year old in Orlando.”
“I thought you were,” she retorted.
“We’re hot together.” Shoving the blouse from her shoulders, JC reached around her back to unclasp her bra, releasing the bounty of her breasts.
“Together we’re more like an inferno, blue-eyes.” She tossed her bra aside and her hands moved to unsnap his shorts.
“Impatient, baby?” he taunted when she lowered the zipper.
“It’s been more than a week.” She caressed him through his briefs, making him groan and buck against her hand.
“And if you do that much longer, I’ll lose my load.”
“Come love me, Josh.” Melissa laid back, her arms out to him.
JC moved to lie above her. “I do, sweetness. I love you so much.” He cupped and teased her breast as he kissed her again and again. “I’ll never get enough of you. If I live to be a hundred, I’ll still want you this much,” he promised. His lips traveled to her breasts, licking and sucking at the hard buds until she squirmed beneath him. One hand went to the front of her shorts, unfastening them. His fingers slipped into her panties to find her wet and ready. “I wish we had more time. I’d lap up all that sweetness.”
“Josh, I just want you. Now, please,” she begged.
At her plea, he removed her remaining clothes. He stared down at her, naked in the moonlight. She was so beautiful! And she was his – that never ceased to amaze him. Pushing his shorts and underwear down, he located the condom he kept for emergencies and sheathed himself. Moving between her thighs, he lowered himself in to her hot center. She was still tight and small, so he waited for her to adjust to him before he began to move.
“You’re so big,” she whispered.
“You’re tiny.”
She smiled, stroking his hair. “Whatever. It feels wonderful.”
JC took her hands, entwining his fingers with hers. “It’s us, Melly. We’re magic together,” he told her softly. “Pure magic.”
JC finished tying his shoes, then looked back at Melissa who lay propped up on the pillows, the sheet primly tucked over her breast as she watched him prepare to leave. God, it got harder to leave her! Each time they made love, he felt like he became more a part of her and she of him.
“One of these days, I won’t have to leave you in bed alone, sweetness,” he told her firmly. It had been five months since they had met, four months since she had become his girl – and two months since they had become lovers. He could count on his hands the number of times they had been together as lovers. It wasn’t enough for either them. It certainly wasn’t enough for him!
“Maybe one day,” she hedged.
“It’ll happen, Mel.” He smiled. “And it’ll have to be a bigger bed.”
“You’ve never complained before.”
“I’m not complaining now. I just know I’ll fall on my butt if we sleep together in this bed.”
Melissa laughed. “It’s the only bed we have.”
“And I’m grateful for that much.” He leaned in to kiss her. “I love you, baby. Sleep tight and I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Good-night, Josh.”
“Something was amiss, but JC couldn’t put his finger on it. He shrugged it off as that ominous feeling he got from leaving her alone after they made love.
That wasn’t it.