returned with a beer for each of them.
Now that they were no longer eating, Sage decided to bring
up the subject of how she’d met Grady. So far, she hadn’t seen any sign of the
nasty head wound he’d received. He seemed to have recovered rather quickly.
“How’s your head?” she asked.
“Fine.”
“Did you end up going to the ER?”
“Actually, no. It wasn’t as bad as you thought it was. Even
though it bled like a bugger, it was only a scratch.”
Sage frowned. Having taken a metal pipe to his head, Grady
would have been pretty lucky to only end up with a mere scratch. The light from
her flashlight hadn’t been the best, but what she’d seen when she’d checked his
head the night before was a lot more than that. Yes, head wounds bled a lot,
but the amount of bleeding he’d done, it hadn’t been something as minor as
that.
“Really?” she asked. “Then you won’t mind if I look at it.
And I never did get a chance to ask if you knew who your assailant was before
you took off.”
“I thought you were off duty today,” Grady said with a short
laugh.
“I am, but that doesn’t mean I stop being a cop. I take my
job very seriously. Some of the guys I’ve dated in the past have said I’m too
uptight about it. But that’s the way I am. So are you going to let me look?”
“There’s nothing wrong with that, and I’m fine. As for the
guy who hit me, it was dark and I didn’t see his face very well.”
“Do you normally walk around that area alone late at night?
The buildings there are mostly industrial. I thought it was kind of strange.”
Grady looked at her, not showing anything on his face. He
then said, “You ask too many questions.”
Sage didn’t get a chance to say anything else before Grady
closed the gap between them and took her mouth in a heated kiss. A small voice
inside her said he was using it to distract her from what they’d been
discussing, but the rest of her didn’t give a shit. She quickly lost herself to
the sensations coursing through her as his lips moved over hers. It became more
so once he pushed his tongue inside and stroked hers, tasting her.
Things quickly heated up after that. Sage basically said the
hell with it, wrapped her arms around Grady’s neck and tugged him even closer.
She wanted him. She didn’t know if what they started here would last, but right
now her body craved his touch—bad. She’d just feel and enjoy what he could give
her.
Grady reached between them and palmed one of her breasts.
His thumb stroked back and forth across Sage’s taut nipple. It immediately
tightened even more. She kept hold around his neck, shifted and fell back flat
onto the couch cushions, taking him with her. His heavier weight stretched full
on top of her with his hips wedged between her spread thighs, which had her
moaning. His erection landed right on her pussy, rubbing against it, driving
her arousal higher.
Soon Grady stepped things up a notch. He lifted his upper
body off her, breaking contact with her mouth, and pushed her sweatshirt to her
chin. He stared down at her bra-covered breasts, his gaze filled with hunger.
With one finger he traced an invisible line from the hollow of her throat to
her cleavage. It then hooked into one of her bra cups and tugged it to the
side, exposing her nipple.
“Beautiful,” Grady said on a sigh.
A noise that sounded like a true cat’s purr pushed out of
Grady as he bent his head and kissed the tight bud. Sage arched her back,
pushing herself closer. Her heart beat faster and an ache built inside her
pussy. She panted in anticipation, silently begging him to touch more of her.
Once again in a man’s arms, she now realized how much she’d missed it, how much
she craved it.
Grady rubbed her nipple along his cheek, then opened his
mouth and took it inside. He rested his weight on a bent arm as he used his
free hand to caress Sage’s side. He thrust his hard cock against her pussy,
making her wish there weren’t