Read Online Stony Creek Hero [Stony Creek 2] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Taylor Berke - Free Book Online

she found the people in Stony Creek to be just charming if a bit more open than she was used to. She would just have to adjust to the change, she whispered.
    “So you like a spanking. Ask him for another one,” Maddy said, making it obvious to Lizzie that she wanted the whole table to hear so she wouldn’t have to be the focus of the conversation.
    Beth just stared at her, smiling as though she thought it was a good idea, too. “I support you wholeheartedly. I support the Lizzie refurbishment, I support you needing to feel happy, and I support the ‘get Ben to spank you and fall for you proposal.’”
    “But, girls, I don’t want to have to ask. He is going to have to come to me. It’s all part of the new being myself project. I want to feel secure, in all ways. I don’t want to wonder if it is because I asked or because he really wanted to be with me.”
    Billie turned her head and whispered conspiratorially, “I think you are about to get your chance, Lizzie, because look who has just entered the building.”
     
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    Ben stood in the doorway of the café, his hand pausing in midlift to take off his black cowboy hat as he felt the eyes of almost a dozen women staring in his direction, with not a sound in the room. He raised his eyebrows in complete confusion as he heard Julia clink her water glass with the other ladies at her table as they all turned their chairs to watch the start of a show. What the hell was going on? Darned women, they were all nuts. He shifted his gaze over the room mostly filled with very few men, save for three big guys he didn’t know, for support. He caught his breath as Lizzie started to stand up.
    She was always gorgeous with her rich chestnut long hair and blue eyes but something was different. She had a more, well, sensual look to her since yesterday. She wore a wrap V-neck blouse that accentuated the fullness of her breasts as they pressed up into his view and the small span of her waist. She almost looked coy and appeared slightly nervous as she momentarily returned his gaze before she almost stumbled, if not for Beth hooking her arm while shaking her head mischievously. Ben felt his body tighten in anticipation as she almost sauntered over his way, with her hips gently swaying. Who was this vixen and where was Lizzie? It was as if she wanted him to know that she wanted him. Did it mean that she accepted his offer, that he had seen all her delicious charms that had been accidentally but thankfully displayed for him, or was he hallucinating after spending the morning cleaning out horse dung and listening to his family’s inane conversations? He had to lower his hat over the evidence of his now raging arousal as his mouth watered. Ben suddenly had an urge to plunge his hands into her hair as he pulled her to his body. Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, he just waited for her to walk his way.
    In the sultriest voice he had ever heard her use at him he heard her say, “Hello, Ben.” Hello, Ben, yup, that was all it took for him to go from really aroused to needing to fuck her senseless against the nearest hard surface. Wow, something had gotten into her and he liked it. He hoped that soon he would give himself leave to be the one getting into her. Ugh, he had to stop thinking like that or go mad.
    “Hello, Lizzie. You are looking positively beautiful today. Well, you always look beautiful to me. So, are you going to torture me with only small glimpses of the bountiful charms I was privileged to see yesterday?” he said as he deliberately lowered his hot gaze to her abundant cleavage. He felt his heart clench as she began to blush at his reminder. Ah, so she was still a bit shy with him about that intimacy. He liked it. He liked it a lot.
    “Shall I seat you at your usual table or would you like to sit with Mabel and the girls?” she questioned him saucily, giving her head a tilt.
    “The only girl I am interested in sitting with is the gorgeous owner of this