Jill sipped the glass of wine Andrew had poured her and watched as he simmered sauce and stirred pasta into boiling water. If anyone had asked Jill an hour ago if there was any way an apron could make Andrew Weston look sexy, she’d have thought they were nuts.
But damn, what an apron did for that man. Everything Andrew did was sexy though. It shouldn’t have come as a shock that cooking would look so good on him.
Jill had just finished telling him that Nora and Lydia had invited her to tea that morning.
“Uh, oh. Did Nora have anything to say about us?” Andrew asked as he slathered garlic butter on the French bread and popped it into the oven to toast.
“Oh, you bet she did. What I don’t get is how she knows about us? I was hoping she didn’t have a clue!” Jill said.
“Oh, that woman knows more than a voodoo priestess gifted with the sight. Nothing gets past Nora and if it does, Lydia is there to pick up the slack,” he answered over his shoulder.
Stirring the pasta sent the muscles on his broad shoulders and taut back into motion, mesmerizing Jill. She remembered grabbing those muscles as Andrew drove into her over and over and suddenly she was more than just distracted. She was hot and flustered.
Thankfully, the thought of her conversation with Nora and Lydia quickly brought her back down to earth.
“Well, she knows about us. Nora was rather blunt about us. Wanted to know if I was helping you get over your fiancée.”
Jill saw the sliver of a moment when Andrew froze at the mention of his former fiancée. His hesitation was so brief, it was barely noticeable but she had been watching for a reaction, wondering if it would be there.
She wouldn’t ask him to explain about his fiancée or ask what happened, but she wanted him to know that she knew. She waited quietly, to see if he would say anything. She was beginning to think Andrew was going to pretend that she had never said the ‘f’ word when he finally spoke up.
“She told you about that, huh?” he asked. He plated up their dinners and joined Jill on a stool at the center island to eat.
She decided to gloss over the fiancée, redirecting the conversation to give Andrew an out if he wanted it.
“Nora asked me what my intentions toward you were. When I told her we were just spending time together, she told me you have a reputation for being – and I swear to you, I’m quoting here: ‘good in the sack.’ It was by far the most uncomfortable conversation I’ve ever had,” Jill said.
Andrew’s fork hung in midair as he stared, open mouthed at Jill, a horrified expression on his face. “She did not. Please tell me she did not say that to you. Of course she did. Who am I kidding? This is Nora we’re talking about.”
Jill just laughed as she watched Andrew try to process her conversation with Nora.
“At least you didn’t have to sit there and figure out how to explain our relationship to her,” she said.
Andrew grinned at that. “‘Spending time together,’ huh?”
“I couldn’t think of any other way to tell her I was banging her grandson.” Jill blushed furiously as the frank colloquialism left her mouth.
She picked up her wine glass and sipped to try to cover her embarrassment, but Andrew leaned in, moved the wineglass out of his way and kissed her soundly on the cheek.
“I like banging you, Jillie Walsh.”
As they finished their dinner, Andrew felt his body go from relaxed with laughter to intense with heat. And that heat was directed at Jill. It amazed him that she could affect him so strongly. With a look, she could twist his body into a tight, tense coil ready to explode. Needing release.
He put down his wine glass and reached his hand across the table toward her. She placed hers in his and let Andrew draw her up and around the table. He pulled her down onto his lap and buried his head in her neck, breathing in her scent as arousal filled every cell of his body.
This was quickly becoming his favorite place to be.
“Watching you in these boots at Jack’s house was pure torture,” he whispered to Jill. His voice was throaty and hoarse with desire.
When Andrew’s mouth met Jill’s she kissed him back with her whole body. She pressed herself close to him, as if willing him to take her upstairs.
He responded quickly to her silent demands, to her quiet plea with her body. In one smooth movement, he lifted Jill and carried her up to her bedroom. He lay her on the bed and took off his clothes.
As Andrew pulled off his shirt and unbuttoned his pants, Jill watched him, making no move to remove her own clothes.
He needed her naked, now.
“Sweater. Off.” Andrew ordered Jill to remove her clothes with the patience and sophistication of a caveman, bringing a smile to Jill’s lips. He couldn’t muster any more control right now. The way she responded to him, the way she pressed her body into him sent him to the edge of control so quickly, he couldn’t breathe.
She pulled the sweater dress up over her head and exposed her incredible body. She wore matching white lace bra and panties and the sight of her in pristine white – virginal white – almost sent Andrew over the top.
He groaned as Jill reached behind her back and unhooked her bra, slipping it off her shoulders and letting it drop to the bed beside her.
She reached for her cowboy boots but he had other ideas.
“Those stay on. Get rid of the panties, Jill.”
He saw her swallow and hesitate, but she never moved her eyes from his.
“Now, Jill,” he said quietly. He was hanging onto his control by a thread.
He froze as he watched her slip the small scrap of white lace down her hips, over those heavenly thighs. She pulled her panties down over the sexiest fucking cowboy boots Andrew had ever seen.
Jill lay back down on the bed and Andrew swallowed a curse as he crawled up the bed to her, predatory in his need for this woman.
He couldn’t taste enough of Jill. His hands could never hold enough of her and his erection all but screamed her name as it strained toward her body.
“I can’t wait, sweetheart. I’ll make it up to you, I promise, but I can’t wait.”
Her laughter answered him as he slipped on a condom but she quickly lost her laughter and her breath when he buried himself in her in one swift, powerful stroke. Jill’s arms and legs, complete with cowboy boots, came around his hips just as he’d pictured them. He heard her breathe his name in his ear and any scrap of control that was left was torn away.
He brought them both to release faster than he’d ever imagined possible. In tandem.
He lay on top of Jill, desperate to catch his breath and regain the balance that she’d taken from him. Taking her with him, he rolled to the side and they lay tangled together as they both fought to recover.
“I’m sorry.” Andrew grinned at Jill. “From the moment I saw those boots on you, all I could think about was having my hands on you again, tasting you, feeling your muscles around me, your nails clawing at my back. I thought I’d go mad waiting. Give me ten minutes and I’ll make this up to you.” He closed his eyes as he finished his rushed apology.
“I’m not complaining. That was perfect. You sure have a way of bringing back a woman’s confidence.”
Her breath was still coming faster than usual and she ran her hands over his chest. She moved them over his arms in a greedy gesture that showed Andrew she’d be ready for more just as soon as he was.
He grinned in response. “I aim to please. After all, confidence is what this is all about, right? Well, that and showing you things Jackass never did.” He had given up using her ex-husband’s name and now referred to him solely as ‘Jackass’ or ‘the Ass.’
“I think I’m a little in love with those boots,” he said as he caught his breath.
Jill laughed. “I have a little bit of an addiction to boots and handbags. There are probably nine or ten pairs of boots for us to work our way through and I’m always willing to buy more when we run out.”
Andrew’s answer was a low groan as he began to kiss her neck again, exploring the soft curves and eliciting tiny moans of pleasure from Jill.
“I’ll give you my credit card. Buy as many as you want.” He talked as his mouth roamed her body.
Her heated hands soon had his body springing back to life and they made love again, with Andrew worshiping her body slowly, but no less hungrily this time.
He took his time bringing her to orgasm, first with his hands, then his mouth, before finally entering her. He brought her to a final lazy, long orgasm that he joined her in before they collapsed in a tangled mess in the middle of Jill’s large bed.