since she wasn’t feeling well. Her brother and his wife Tammy had spent the holidays with Tammy’s family.
Erin couldn’t believe how fast the past couple of months had flown by. She and Dave had dated like they had when they were teenagers, and they’d had so much fun together. They’d gone to drive-in movies and had sex in the backseat of the king club cab of his truck, went to pizza houses and ice cream parlors, had dinners at fine restaurants, spent time with his cop friends watching games, drinking beer and eating munchies, and got together with some of her coworkers as well.
She sighed and her skin tingled as she thought about all the fun they’d had in Dave’s bondage room. He could take her into custody any time. So long as they made sure the door to the bondage room was locked.
It had been no problem whatsoever in getting over what’s-his-name. And she considered the friendship she’d thought she’d had with Wendy not a friendship at all.
Friends don’t fuck friends’ boyfriends.
But if it hadn’t been for them, she never would have been pulled over by Dave…
59
Cheyenne McCray
Erin shifted on the floor as she looked up at the sparkling tree in Dave’s family room. Beneath the tree were two more presents they hadn’t unwrapped. One was from her to Dave, and the other from Dave to her. She wondered what was in the box he’d wrapped in red foil with a metallic green bow. It was about the size of a shoebox, and she just had no clue what was in it.
The living room lights dimmed and the Christmas lights sparkled even brighter.
She heard footsteps crossing the carpet and she looked up to see Dave with two cups topped with a mound of whipped cream. He looked so handsome that she wanted to put whipped cream on him instead and eat him all up.
He smiled as he handed her a mug. She took a sip of the cocoa that was just the right temperature so that she didn’t burn her tongue. She caught the taste of something strong and glanced up at Dave.
“Okay, what’d you put into this?”
Dave laughed. “You have a whipped cream mustache,” he said just before he leaned forward, kissed her and darted his tongue out over her upper lip.
“Mmmmm…” Erin sighed as he drew away. “I think I’ll make sure I have whipped cream on my face all the time.”
Another kiss was her reward before they went back to drinking their hot chocolate laced with brandy.
When they were finished, Dave took their mugs and set them on an end table near the leather L-shaped couch. He settled on the floor next to her and took the two presents from beneath the Christmas tree.
“I want you to open your present last.” His expression was serious, but there was a spark in his eyes.
“What did you get me?” she said with a grin. “My own flogger?”
“How did you guess?” He met her lips again in a soft kiss before moving back and looking at her with his dark, intense gaze.
60
Taking on the Law
Erin handed him his gift. “I hope you like it.”
“You could give me a pair of socks and I would love it.” He pulled off the gold bow and tore off the silver wrapping paper. For a long moment he was quiet as he looked at the framed photograph she had given him.
“Thank you, angel.” His voice sounded thick when he wrapped his arm around her shoulders and squeezed her close to him.
It was a photograph of the two of them together—him in his football jersey, and Erin in her team spirit shirt. They looked so young, so in love as they stared up into one another’s eyes.
How could she have let that go?
Dave kissed her, a soft loving kiss that told her how much he appreciated her gift.
When it was her turn to open the present from Dave, her hands shook. She didn’t bother taking it off slowly, she ripped off the paper with enthusiasm.
It was a shoebox beneath the wrapping paper—hers, in fact. She looked up at him and cocked her eyebrow.
“Open it,” he said, gesturing to the box.
Erin lifted the lid—to find
Elena Aitken
Marc Eden
Mikayla Lane
Richard Brockwell
Lorelei James
George Ivanoff
Dwight V. Swain
Fleur Adcock
Francine Pascal
K.D. Rose