Free Angel's Halo: Guardian Angel by Terri Anne Browning

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Chapter 6
    Willa
    The feel of warm lips on my neck woke me up in more ways than one. Blinking my eyes open I saw the clock beside the bed and groaned. I didn’t know whether to be pissed that he’d woken me at two in the afternoon or to take him up on the very tempting offer he was silently offering me by pressing his hardness against my bare ass.
    “Happy birthday, baby.” Spider kissed my neck again, his facial hair tickling my sensitive skin.
    I groaned again, having completely forgotten that it was my birthday. I was twenty-two today. I’d never really cared about birthdays, mine in particular. My mom would always make it a special day¸ but I’d always considered it more for her, the woman who had spent so many agonizing hours pushing me into the world, than for myself. Really, shouldn’t it be for her because she’d went through all that work getting me to the nine-month mark and then going through all that damn pain?
    Last year had been the first year without her and I hadn’t celebrated at all. Sure, Bash had gotten me a goofy little card and he and Lexa had attempted to make me a cake. It had been sweet, but it had only made me sad that my mom was gone. She should have been there to celebrate my twenty-first.
    I didn’t want to celebrate this year either, but Raven now considered me one of her family and was throwing me a party. Lucky for me Bash had warned me in advance and I’d been able to get Spider to convince her to have a much smaller get together than what she had originally planned. A simple dinner out with just a few of us and then back to the Hannigans’ house for drinks.
    That was it. I didn’t want more than that.
    “Come on, Willa.” Spider nuzzled my ear before sinking his teeth into the lobe. “Wake up. I want to give you your present.”
    “If it’s anything but your dick, I don’t want it.”
    With his bare chest pressed so close to my back, his chuckle vibrated through me. One large, questing hand traveled from my stomach, lowering to cup my pussy. “I can definitely make that happen. But I still have something else for you.” He parted the lips of my sex with his fingers and thrust his thick middle finger inside of me.
    I moaned, unable to hide just how much I wanted him as liquid pleasure flooded my entrance and dripped onto his hand. “James…” When he pulled his hand away, I whimpered in protest and turned onto my back. “You are a cruel man, James Masterson.”
    “You can have my dick as soon as I give you your first present.” He pulled a small wrapped box out from under his pillow and sat it on my stomach. I blinked at the little box, knowing that it couldn’t be anything other than jewelry from the size of it.
    I glanced down at my left hand where my engagement ring shimmered in the light coming through the curtains of the apartment. I wasn’t much for jewelry, but that ring was any woman’s dream come true. That the man I loved had given it to me with the promise of making me his wife…
    Yeah, that was everything I’d ever wanted wrapped up in a sparkling diamond.
    I pulled the string of the ribbon and took the top off the little box. When I lifted my head to look inside I couldn’t help the gasp that left my mouth. It wasn’t jewelry, but a key.
    “What did you do?” I whispered.
    “I gave you my heart four years ago, Willa.” Spider dropped a soft kiss onto my lips and I had to blink back my tears before they fell. “Now I’m giving you everything else. I’ve had my mom working on getting us that house that was for sale on the same block as Raven and Bash. She’s good at haggling a good price, and she got us a good deal. As soon as you’re ready we can move in.”
    “But…don’t we have to wait for the sale to close?” I breathed, confused and so utterly happy that I didn’t know how to contain myself. I would be just down the street from Lexa. I could see her every day if I wanted to. And I definitely wanted to. Up until recently