Chapter 19
AN: Thanks so much, everyone, for the reviews. You all make me feel so dang good! It's Independence Weekend for us here, so I am out and about, having a good ol' time. Therefore...I am posting two days worth in one big ol' chapter (This sucker is HUGE)...My treat to all of you! Hope you like it...I got a little carried away when I was writing...*blush*. I'm mixing the sweet with the spicy...makes it extra tasty, right?
Penelope entered her room through her beaded curtain and took a seat on the edge of her bed. She smiled at his handful of goodies.
"What are we going to try first?" she asked, a slightly nervous, but equally excited grin on her face. She reached for the items, but he moved away with them.
"Oh, no." Derek grinned at her, and then placed the items far away from her on the other side of the bed. "I wanna see what's in your drawer already...what turns you on...gets you off."
As he spoke, Derek was tugging his shirt off over his head and unbuttoning his jeans.
"You," she whispered huskily, staring at his body with no small amount of lust.
Derek paused in unzipping his pants and looked up at her. She noticed that he began to color up, just a little bit. That made her smile.
"What?" she asked, teasing him as she began to remove her skirt. "You asked what turns me on and gets me off. That's the logical—and truthful—answer."
He smiled then while he shrugged off his jeans. "You're good for my ego, sweetheart. I bet that's one of the million reasons I love you."
Again, Penelope's heart did that strange quake it did whenever he mentioned love to her. Then again, he'd said things like that before in the past, even while she'd been with Kevin. It was so damned confusing; her brain, much less her heart, couldn't wrap around and decipher it.
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