His entire body shuddered as he climaxed, a jettison of hot come spurting along her soft tongue. Aubry’s throat worked to take it in, and he watched her swallow while he convulsed with pleasure until he was shaking with it.
Spent, he reached down to pull her up from the floor, then took her mouth in a kiss that tasted of him. She wound her tongue around his, her soft moans making him twitch despite the blistering orgasm she’d just given him.
Now it was time to give her a little taste of what she’d done for him. He bent and pulled her underwear down, then put his mouth on her.
She hummed in satisfaction as he rolled his tongue over her sex.
“Oh, yes, Tucker. Right there. I woke up so hot this morning. I’m so ready to come.”
He loved hearing her say that, loved knowing she’d woken up aroused and ready for sex. He found the spot that made her moan and kept his tongue there, pressing in, giving her what she needed. He added his fingers, sliding them inside of her, pumping her, fucking her, listening to her cries of pleasure as she came apart for him.
There was nothing sweeter than having her come for him, to taste her as she trembled against him. He got up and kissed her, held her while she shuddered through the aftershocks until she settled.
She laid her head on his shoulder. “Now I’m hungry.”
He laughed. “Let’s go take a shower, then we’ll get some breakfast.”
They cleaned up and headed out to a restaurant to eat.
“When’s your next game?” she asked as she dove into some oatmeal and fruit.
“Tonight.”
Her eyes widened. “Am I keeping you from getting to the ballpark?”
“No. I don’t head over until this afternoon.”
“Okay.”
“How about you? When do you work?”
“I have a shift tonight.”
“Now it’s my turn to ask if I’m keeping you from work.”
She laughed. “Trust me. Nothing keeps me from work or I get in trouble. I report at three.”
“Okay. Thanks for spending the night with me.”
“I enjoyed it. But, you know, we can’t make a habit of it.”
Interesting thing for her to say. “Yeah? Why’s that?”
She shrugged and finished her glass of juice. “You’re busy. I’m busy. It’s that whole career thing.”
He leaned back in the booth. “We’ve managed just fine so far, haven’t we? You haven’t missed work yet, have you?”
“No.”
“And I haven’t missed a game. So we’re doing okay, aren’t we?”
“I guess so.”
He studied her. “Unless that’s your polite way of saying you’d like to dump me.”
Her lips curved and she reached across the table to grab his hand. “Trust me, Tucker. I like what you’ve got.”
“Good. Then quit trying to end it. We’re good. We’re having fun together. So stop trying to complicate something that, so far, isn’t complicated.”
Now she studied him, before finally nodding.
“Okay. Uncomplicated it is.”
He wondered if she’d brought it up because of the work schedule thing, or if it was something else. Because, really, what they were doing was as uncomplicated as it could get. Sure, they both had busy schedules, but so far they’d been able to work around them. And he liked Aubry—a lot. He wanted to keep seeing her. But if she had reservations about it—about him . . .
He decided to shrug it off and just go with the way things were for now. Aubry was pretty upfront and outspoken. If she had issues, she’d tell him.
He definitely had no issues. He liked being with her, liked seeing her, touching her and having sex with her. He knew she didn’t want to complicate her life, and after that debacle with Laura, the last thing he wanted was a difficult relationship.
So far, the two of them were working well.
He intended to keep it that way.
AUBRY HAD HER HANDS FULL WITH A PATIENT WITH abdominal pain, another with a broken ankle, one with a bloody nose that wouldn’t clot properly and one with an upper-respiratory infection. She’d been running nonstop since she got to work this morning, which made for a good day as far as the passage of time, but it sure as hell had been hectic.
“Room twelve is vomiting blood,” Olivia, the nurse said as she passed her in the hall.
“Tell him to quit sniffling. He’s drawing all that blood down his throat. And is the clotting agent working yet?”
Olivia nodded. “It seems to be slowing down the bleeding. I’m heading back in there now to check.”
“I’ll be there shortly. I need to check the X-rays for the abdominal patient.”
She reviewed the X-rays, which didn’t tell her what she needed to know, so she found the intern in charge of her abdominal patient.
“What do you see on this X-ray?”
The intern, Max, studied it. “Not much, really. Nothing to account for the amount of pain the patient is in. We’ve ruled out appendix and gall bladder.”
She nodded. “What would you do next?”
Max looked at her. “I’d order a CT scan of the upper and lower abdominal region.”
“Good call. Get that done and go monitor the patient. Let me know when we have the results.”