him a week after their first encounter at the diner.
This party had only made her face reality and an admission to herself that she was in deep. “I came here tonight to fix Addison’s computer. I didn’t know she was having a party.” She cupped Cody’s face and caressed his cheeks with her thumbs. “It was only when I saw you walking through the house wearing nothing but a smile that I considered staying.”
She bit her lip and looked beyond his shoulder to where her hostess stood kissing her husband. Trent sat beside Phil at the bamboo bar. “This was a first and a last for me. You and Phil were amazing, but I’m a one-man woman. I don’t plan on doing this again.”
Cody leaned forward and captured her mouth with his. Her palms glided across his wet rib cage, then flattened against his back. He slid his tongue into her mouth and the evidence of his excitement pressed on her abdomen. Soft moans escaped his throat, turning her on more than his roaming hand slipping between her legs.
His wet, silky skin touching her breasts and her fingers gliding through his damp hair made her want him inside her. This time alone, with no Phil. Sex and booze had done their job with helping her to temporarily sooth the pain of her past. Now she couldn’t help wonder what lay ahead.
Could Cody be part of her future? If not, then she needed to stop kissing him. Otherwise, he would kiss her heart out of her chest and take it with him the second their lips parted.
She broke the kiss and rested her forehead against his. “I’ll never forget this evening, but I can’t be with you again, Cody.”
“Hey, now.” He used his thumb to swipe a tear off her cheek as he met her gaze. “I wasn’t quite honest with you either.”
A relationship was based on trust and his admission to lying felt like stones being thrown at her glass heart, shattering it into small tiny pieces. She wasn’t sure she could handle a rejection. But it was best to get things out in the open to know where she stood. “Here comes the heartbreaking truth. Let’s have it.”
“You first. Why do you not want to do this again?”
“Because I’m a selfish woman.” She had to continue with her honesty. “I agreed to this hoping it would fulfill all my sexual fantasies I’ve been having about you.”
“And did it?”
She nodded. “And then some. Phil was an added surprise. But it also made me realize that I want you and no one else. When I mentioned no strings attached , I hadn’t expected our intimacy to affect me this way.”
“I never agreed to that statement.”
“You didn’t dismiss it either.”
He laughed and pushed himself off her, sank deep into the center of the hot tub, and surfaced wearing a large smile. He sat beside her and scooped her onto his lap so now she straddled him. “You have the most beautiful green eyes I’ve ever seen.”
“Trying to get on my good side?”
“Sounds like I’m already there.” He pressed his lips against hers.
She couldn’t refuse his kiss. Inviting his tongue inside was more than she should accept at the moment. As much as she would enjoy joining more body parts, she would thank herself in the morning for the discipline. The more of him she had, the harder it would be to let him go.
Instead, she teased her pussy along his long, thick shaft and waited to hear what he had to say.
He broke the kiss and groaned. “Damn, woman, you have me hard all over again.”
She pushed her hips forward. His cock separated her folds. “Are you wearing a condom?”
He nodded.
She’d hate to see a good rubber go to waste. “I guess if tonight is our only night, maybe we could spend some time alone. But can we agree on one thing?”
“What’s that?”
She still felt the need to share the newest gossip with him come Monday morning. “We can’t let anything that happened here change our talks.”
He shook his head. “I can’t do that.”
“Well then, you’ll be missing out on the latest