Eve obviously hadn’t been toying with dirty thoughts as he had thought because she made a sound of surprise when he kissed her. That sound sort of got trapped there in between their lips, and it mingled well with the next sound she made.
A little purr of pleasure.
He knew that purr. Knew the feel of her body against his when she slipped right into his arms. It was like coming home, a birthday, losing his virginity and Christmas all rolled into one. Except this particular celebration was going to give him a raging hard-on. And regrets.
Best not to forget that part.
There’d definitely be regrets, and it wouldn’t be long before they arrived. Did that stop him? No. The hard-on in the making was in control here, and it convinced the rest of his body that if he didn’t kiss Eve, he was going to explode. And that was the justification Lawson used to keep on kissing her.
Thankfully, Eve kissed him right back, too. In fact, she was the one who deepened the kiss, and the purr turned to a hot, hungry, needy sound. As a general rule, it was what he preferred to hear after he’d gotten naked with a woman and not while he was making out with her on her porch. Still, it upped the speed of his full-blown hard-on.
Lawson couldn’t make himself stop kissing Eve, but he could do something about the porch issue. Without breaking the lip-lock or the grip he had with his arm around her waist, he maneuvered her into the foyer, and he kicked the door shut. Of course, being inside wasn’t necessarily obstacle-free, and he opened his eyes long enough to make sure Cassidy, the baby and no one else wasn’t around.
They weren’t.
Eve and he had the foyer to themselves.
Now that they had some possible privacy, Lawson went for a whole new level of stupid. He pushed her back against the wall and made the contact body-to-body with his chest against her breasts. Even after all these years, they still fit in all the right places. At least they did with their clothes on. Lawson figured it’d be the same if they were in their birthday suits.
Of course, that couldn’t happen.
It was one thing to kiss each other silly, but sex would complicate the hell out of things. His erection begged him to take on that complication, but there was still a glimmer of sanity left in his brain. And that’s why Lawson finally pulled back from her.
With her breath gusting, Eve stared at him and blinked. “Oh,” she said.
He had no clue what that meant or how to respond, so Lawson just stayed quiet while he tried to level his own breathing. It would have been better if he could put some distance between them, but he couldn’t walk just yet.
Eve didn’t move, either, but her attention did drift lower. At first, he thought she was going to look at the front of his jeans again—the very thing that had started the kissing. But she looked at the front of her own shirt.
It was wet.
Not an ordinary kind of wet. There were two circles of moisture right over her breasts.
“My milk,” she mumbled. She scooted away from him and folded her arms over her chest. “I’ve weaned Aiden to the bottle, but my milk still sometimes lets down. It’s a reflex action.”
Lawson wasn’t sure how that worked, but Eve suddenly seemed very uncomfortable. Maybe even in pain because her face was screwed up a little.
“I’m sorry,” he said.
That encompassed not just the possible pain but the kiss itself. Yeah, the regrets had set in. And when he heard the knock on the door, Lawson figured the regrets were going to skyrocket. Because now someone was going to see Eve and him like this. Of course, whoever it was might not know how to interpret the wet spots on her shirt or their heavy breathing, but unless they were blind, the erection straining against his jeans would be a no-brainer.
“Yoo-hoo?” someone called out.
From that single-word greeting, Lawson knew who was on the other side of the door. Hell. What was she doing here?
“Uh, is that your mother?” Eve asked, and she sounded just as shocked, and alarmed, by that as he was.
Because, yes, it was indeed his mom.
“Yoo-hoo?” Regina repeated, and this time the knock on the door was much louder.
Footsteps followed, and several moments later, his mom was at the window, peering into the family room. It didn’t stretch her gaze much to continue that peering into the foyer. She smiled and waved at Eve. She quit smiling and waving though when her attention landed on Lawson.
Judging from the sound Eve made this time, she was trying to choke back a groan at the sight of her visitor. Lawson didn’t bother choking back his, but he did move behind Eve when she opened the door. His erection was going fast, but he didn’t want his mom to see the remnants of it.
The moment Eve had the door open, Regina pulled her into a hug. “It’s so good to see you. I’m back for a visit and just had to stop by.”
It had been nearly six months since he’d last seen his mother, and there’d been some changes. For her last visit, she’d been a brunette, but today her hair was flame red thanks to the wig she was wearing. So were her skinny jeans, top, heels and earrings. And her nail polish and lipstick. Apparently, Regina didn’t believe in mixing it up when it came to color schemes.
As his mom had done at the window, she was all smiles for Eve until she looked at him. “Why are you here?”
Lawson didn’t have a good answer for that, but no way was he going to admit he’d been there to kiss Eve’s lights out. Mission accomplished, which meant he should get the heck out and go back home. He slid his hat over the front of his jeans so he could walk past Regina, but that only seemed to make her notice what he was trying to hide.
Regina hugged him but then put her mouth right against his ear. “What’s going on?” she asked.
“Nothing,” Lawson whispered, and it wasn’t a lie because nothing indeed was going on. Now.
She pulled back, and one of Regina’s needle-thin eyebrows lifted. “You really think it’s wise to get involved with Eve again?” she whispered to him. Of course, Eve heard it because she was standing right there.
No, it wasn’t wise, far from it, but that’s what happened when you thought with your dick.
Thankfully, his mom didn’t press him for an answer on that because she began to look around at the foyer and the family room. There were two boxes on the floor, and Lawson saw his name on one of them.
What the heck was that about?
Lawson wanted to know but not at the expense of staying there and having his mom also catch sight of the bulge around his zipper.
“Oh, you’ve redecorated,” Regina told Eve. “And you’ve gone with neutrals.”
Lawson moved past her toward the door but immediately encountered another obstacle, and this one was smiling at him.
Dylan.
“Why are you here?” Lawson snapped.