Free Husband Stay (Husband #2) by Louise Cusack

against it, his breath hot and
his voice low, “You’re so delicious I want to gorge myself.”
    My legs started to
wobble, and my good arm clung to his shoulder for support.
    “You didn’t say no.”
He pulled back to look into my eyes again. “So I’m going to carry you into the
bedroom now.” He paused for a second. “Unless you don’t want me to.”
    I could have
wasted time telling him that I don’t do this normally—that I’m actually a good
girl. But there was no point, because in that moment I wasn’t any sort of girl.
I was a woman who wanted the wildest, hottest, most mind-blowing sex he could
deliver. I honestly couldn’t think past that.
    Whatever baggage
I’d been talking to Jill about was obliterated by the shockingly intense sensations
tingling over my skin and throbbing inside, waiting to be liberated, and I
didn’t care how.
    Since the moment
I’d started singing that first Renee Geyer number I’d felt incredible, like
somebody I didn’t recognize—somebody I wanted to be—and whatever was going to
happen between Jack and I was simply an extension of that.
    So I said, “I want
you. Too.”
    Which was honest,
and probably as articulate as I could manage at that point. But in the next
second, my phone burst into life with a musical ringtone.
    “You sexy thing
you. I believe in miracles...”
    That would be Jill.
    His hands slid off
my body and he stepped back, staring at me as if I was someone he was suddenly
unsure of.
    I swayed for a
second, then realized I had to answer it. Jill would be worried. So I scrabbled
around the long strap to find my purse which had fallen to my side. I pulled
out my phone, slid a finger across it to answer the call and immediately heard,
“ Ange, where are you?” in a loud voice with lots of background
noise.
    I pushed the phone
to my ear. “I’m with Jack.” I stared up into his eyes. He was frowning now.
    “ Oh. ”
    “At his house,” I
elaborated. “Possibly about to have sex with him.”
    “ Oh!”
    Jack’s frown
morphed into a smile that was so sexy I couldn’t breathe. He mouthed, “Definitely
about to have sex,” and I couldn’t help smiling back. A shaky smile.
    “ I just...so
you’re safe? ”
    Jack nodded. She
was shouting over background noise, so it would have been easy for him to hear
her.
    “Yes, I’m fine.
Can I ring you...later?” I’d been about to say tomorrow, but I wasn’t sure how
long Jack intended to ‘entertain’ me, and didn’t want to assume anything. Despite
the fact that I was about to get intimate with a virtual stranger, I still felt
constrained by manners.
    “ Sure. You know
where we’re staying. ”
    It was a local Bed
& Breakfast and I had my key in my handbag, so if Jack wasn’t planning to
make me breakfast, I could taxi it over there later.
    “Thanks for
checking in with me,” I said sincerely.
    “ Have fun, and
no faking it! ” she shouted.

CHAPTER SIX
     
    I blinked in shock,
and Jack’s delicious mouth fell open as he stared at me. I quickly ended the
call and put the phone in my purse, zipping it shut decisively before having
the courage to raise my chin and meet his gaze.
    “Faking it?” he asked
softly, and I felt so mortified my face could have lit kindling. I’d just been
thinking it was lucky that Jill’s call hadn’t killed the mood, until her last
comment. Now any sort of arousal I might have indulged in was thoroughly
derailed. I’d gone from feeling like a sex goddess to a lame duck in the space
of one sentence. Really, Jill had absolutely no discretion.
    “Angela?” He was
clearly waiting for an explanation, but I didn’t owe him anything. I barely
knew him. Besides, the sick humiliation swirling low in my belly demanded I
walk out with my dignity intact, and that was just what I intended to do.
    “This was a
mistake.” My voice was calm and I was proud of that. But as I turned to open
the front door, his hand landed on it, above my head, keeping it shut.
    “No,”