Free Latched (Coronado Series Book 1) by Lea Hart Page B

kissed her fingers. “I had fun too baby. Thanks for coming out with me.”
    They were parked in front of her house and they were making out like a couple of teenagers. She was afraid that she was going to break down and invite him in and pulled away. “I have to go in before I lose my resolve and invite you in.”  
    He ran his mouth down her neck and kissed her right under her jaw and could feel her shudder. “I don’t want you to lose anything, Birdie.” He kept the assault up and licked the side of her neck where he could see her pulse hammering away. He nipped her shoulder and then kissed it.  
    “Time to go - see you Saturday!” Birdie murmured.  
    “Why the rush baby?” He ran his hand down the side of her body and gently ran his fingertips over the top of her dress right under the swell of her breast and heard her take a deep breath in.
    Birdie moved away to the door, “I am one second away from inviting you in. I don’t want to be a tart.”  
    “Ok let me come and help you out.” He held out his hand and helped her down. She slid down the front of his body, “That’s not fair Birdie.” She could feel the effect she was having on him - maybe it wasn’t fair to either of them.  
    She put her hand on his face and brought his lips down to meet hers, “Thanks for a great evening, see you Saturday.” She gave him a sweet kiss and walked towards her front door.
    “Be ready Birdie, Saturday is when you get to use me any way you want.” She kept walking and waved goodbye. He got in his truck and looked over at her house. He still couldn’t believe what came out of that woman’s mouth. I don’t think she has a filter between her brain and her mouth. Which was working out for him, there was not going to be any game playing with this one . He felt damn lucky that he was the one she chose to break her rut….. damn lucky. The words from the song they danced to kept running through his mind. “I’m latching on, babe, now I know what I found.” He was definitely going to latch on to Birdie, he just needed to find a way for her to latch on to him.

CHAPTER SIX
    FRIDAY
    Birdie laid in bed exhausted. She had delivered the flowers for the wedding that was taking place tomorrow at the Hotel Del. Her client decided they wanted to have everything a day early. She scrambled to get it done and charged them an additional 20% for the inconvenience of hustling over the last two days to complete everything. She watched mindless TV and was almost asleep when she heard the phone ring. She picked it up, “Birdie girl, I’m at your door. Can I come in please?”
    “Sure, sure, wait a second.” She got out of bed and looked down at her jammies. She didn’t look great but what could she do - it was 10:00 at night. She ran down stairs and opened the door, Mark looked awful. She drew him into the house and wrapped her arms around him and gave him a big hug. “Bad day at the office?”  
    He held on to her and took a full breath for the first time in forty eight hours. “If you could make this day go away for a while I would be really grateful.”  
    “Are you hungry, do you want something to eat?” She closed the door and was walking him to the kitchen then they stopped at the foot of the stairs.
    “I’m not hungry, I haven’t slept in 48 hours. I didn’t want to go to my empty condo, so I came here.”
    “Are you ok? You look so tired.”  
    “The training exercise was a goat fuck from the beginning. Everything that could go wrong, did. I also got news today that a buddy of mine from a team on the East Coast has been injured and it doesn’t look good.” He wrapped his arms around her tighter, “I just want to go to bed with you wrapped around me. I want to wake up in the morning and work on breaking you out of your rut. How does that sounds?”  
    “I wanted to be wearing something sexy and look good when all of this happened. Do I have time to transform myself?”  
    “I think you are plenty