Ignoring his dick, which was throbbing once again, Dirk rose between Ryann’s legs and wrapped his arms around her before he rolled to his back, taking her with him. She ended up sprawled atop him. The perfect place where he wanted her.
Slowly, Ryann’s breathing returned to normal. She ran her fingers up and down his sides as she lay there with her head pillowed on his chest. He moved his hand in circles on her back.
Ryann eventually lifted her head and looked at him. “Are we stopping?”
“For now.” Dirk then laughed at the disappointed expression that formed on her gorgeous face. “Don’t look at me like that.”
She wiggled, his erection trapped between them. “Do we have to? You’re still ready to go, if you know what I mean? The oral sex was great and all, but you’re looking at a woman who’s done without it for far too long. You woke the beast up, so you have to feed it now.”
He chuckled. “The beast?”
“Yeah, you know, my urge to have sex. I’ve kind of suppressed it for the last couple of years, being busy raising Tyler on my own and all. But after this, I don’t think that’s going to work anymore.”
Dirk cupped her face in his hands and brought her mouth to his. He kissed her thoroughly before he let her up for air. “Well, the beast is going to have to be satisfied with the taste it got. I want us to spend more of today together, talking, before I take you to bed and not let you out of it for maybe a day.”
Ryann groaned. “Do you have any idea what you’re doing to me? We’ve done nothing but talk to each other for the last two weeks.”
“Yeah, but only over the phone. Plus, we really didn’t discuss anything personal, mostly about the website. And I still want to take you out for dinner. If I let this go any further, that won’t be happening, I can assure you.”
She sighed dramatically. “All right, you win. What do you have in mind to fill the rest of the time?”
Dirk kissed the tip of her nose before he slid out from under her and got off the bed. He quickly tucked his still hard cock inside his jeans and did them up, then turned to face Ryann. She lay on the mattress in all her naked glory, making him almost rethink what he’d just told her. Almost.
“I thought we could work on some ads for the launch of the website,” he said, doing his best to hide the fact that seeing her like this, stretched out on the bed in open invitation, made him horny as hell.
She smiled coyly. “Are you absolutely sure that’s what you’d rather be doing? We could always work on them sometime later.”
Ryann didn’t know it, but she was playing havoc with his good intentions of easing her into his world first, before taking her as his mate. She had no idea how much he wanted to climb back on that bed with her and finish what they’d started. Already, his mating urge had dug its claws even deeper into him because he’d only come in her mouth.
Instead, Dirk forced those thoughts away. “Positive. I’m not going to mess up what we’ve started.”
“Fine,” she said with a pout as she climbed off the bed. “Have it your way. But all I have to say is that we’re off to a pretty good start, in my opinion.”
He was about to answer her when his cell phone started going off. Dirk reached inside his front jeans pocket and took it out. Seeing the number, he silently groaned to himself. It didn’t take a brainiac to figure out why she was calling.
He hit the “send” button to answer, and said, “Hello, Roxie.”
“Good, you answered,” she replied. “That must mean I’m not too late.”
“Too late for what?”
“To make sure you don’t forget about my rules when it comes to mortal mates. I know Ryann is yours. Since you’re the last of the Protectors to get matched up, I’m going to make sure you do everything by the book.”
He sighed. “So far so good. Okay?” Dirk followed Ryann’s movements as she gathered up her clothes before she put them back on. With each bit of skin she covered, he wanted to groan in disappointment.
“I guess, but the question is, how long will that last?” Roxie asked. “All your brothers-in-arms caved. Are you with Ryann now?”
“Yes.”
“What are the two of you doing for dinner?”
“I’d planned to take Ryann out somewhere.”
“Come to my place. Have dinner with Beowulf and me. Jager and Daylen will be here as well.”
“I don’t know, Rox. I promised I’d take her someplace nice.”
He was met with a short silence before Roxie said, “Are you insinuating my house isn’t? Or that I’m not a good enough cook? You’ve eaten enough of my meals to know that’s not the case.”
“You know that’s not what I meant. Gee, don’t bite my head off or anything.”
“Then you two will come over. And just so you know, that’s an order from the foretold one.”
“I guess my answer has to be yes, doesn’t it, since you really haven’t given me much choice. But I’m still going to ask Ryann first if it’s all right with her.”
Dirk covered the mouthpiece of his cell with his hand and spoke to his soon-to-be mate. “It’s Roxie, and she’s invited the two of us to come over and have dinner with her and her husband, Beowulf. I know it won’t be just the two of us going out for a meal, but it should be fun.” Not. He had a feeling Roxie would be watching him like a hawk to make sure he followed her rules.
Ryann nodded. “Sure, I’d love to. I know she’s a good friend of yours, and that she helped you set up Mate Connection.”
He pulled away his hand, then said into his phone, “Rox, Ryann said she’s fine with it. So I guess we’ll see you for dinner. What time do you want us over?”
“How about we have a late meal, say around seven? That way, I can get the baby to bed beforehand, so I can eat with no interruptions.”
“Sounds good. We’ll be there. Bye.”
Dirk ended the call and put his cell phone back into his pocket. He closed the distance between him and Ryann and wrapped his arms around her waist to hold her close. “Thanks for agreeing to go over to Roxie’s. She was really quite insistent about it. Knowing her, if I refused, she would’ve just kept calling until she’d worn me down. She really does want to meet you.”
Ryann laughed. “No worries. So what time are we going over there?”
“She wants us to arrive at seven.”
Ryann went on tiptoes and kissed his chin. “Then we’d better get cracking on those ads you want to work on. And maybe we should have a little something to snack on now to tie us over until then. I make some mean nachos.”
Dirk smiled. “I’m not one for turning down food.”
As he walked with Ryann out of the bedroom, he hoped Roxie wouldn’t hover over him too much this evening. He loved her like the sister he never had, but the state he was in, he’d only be able to stand so much.
Chapter Five
Ryann sat in the passenger side of Dirk’s BMW convertible with the top down, enjoying the wind in her hair as he drove them to Roxie’s place. Since it wouldn’t be dark for another couple of hours, when Dirk had asked if it were okay if he took it down, she’d quickly agreed. She’d never ridden in a convertible before, or a BMW, for that matter. Ryann had had a feeling that her new boss had money, considering some of the things he’d said while they’d talked on the phone. The first and foremost giveaway had been the fact he lived in Marin County.
Dirk sent a quick look her way before he focused back on the road. “Is it too windy for you?”
Ryann tucked her hair behind her ears. “No, it’s fine.”
“Just let me know if it is, and I’ll put the top up.”
“I will.”
They drove in silence for a little while until Ryann noticed the neighborhood they were in. “Ah, I take it Roxie’s rich like you.”