"You mean fighting spirit, Nolan. The expression is fighting spirit and it doesn't apply here."
"I meant fucking spirit."
"Because we'll be fucking?"
I nod. "That's the spirit."
She glances behind me. "Dino heard that. He's looking over here."
"That's because you're stunning." I kiss her lips softly. "I'll be at the shoebox by ten, Ellie."
She takes my key fob when I offer it. "I'll go there and nude study. I might order pizza."
I love when she teases me. I hope that she's teasing me. "Don't let the pizza delivery guy see you naked."
"You're the only man who sees me naked." She pops up to her tiptoes to wrap her arms around my neck. "I like it that way."
I love it that way, and I never want it to change.
Chapter 46
Ellie
"I had no idea that nude pizza was a thing." He pushes his jeans down his legs. "We should do this every Saturday night."
"I'm game." I take a bite of the large cheese pizza I ordered thirty minutes ago. "I hope you like plain cheese. It's my favorite."
"Mine too." He sits on the edge of the bed in his boxer briefs. "It's not technically nude pizza unless we're both totally naked, right?"
I look down at my pale pink bra and panties. I had taken off everything right after the pizza was delivered, but that only lasted three minutes. I pulled my bra and panties back on as I waited for Nolan to arrive.
"I'm a messy eater and I don't want any hot sauce to burn my nipples."
His eyes fall to my bra and the outline of my nipples. "If I haven't told you yet, your nipples are incredible, Ellie. They're pink and puffy and when I suck on them, they get so hard like they're aching for more."
"You make me feel really beautiful."
"You are a stunning woman." His fingers brush over my chin, tilting my head up to his. "I crave you. It's not just your body but all of you. Your mind and your spirit. There's this thing about you, Ellie. It's this sense of goodness that just is in the air whenever you're near. I feel it. I know other people can too. I just want to soak in that and in you."
I lean forward to cup his cheeks in my hands. "You have that too, Nolan. That sense of goodness. I felt it when I first met you. You protect the people you care about and you care about people you don't even know."
His eyes close for a beat. "I haven't always been a good person."
"You are now." I kiss him softly. "The past is the past. What matters is right now and you're a great dad and a wonderful lover and a pretty good boss."
He huffs out a deep laugh. "I'm a pretty good boss? I'm a fucking fantastic boss."
I kiss him again, harder this time, my tongue skimming over his bottom lip. "You were right. Your employees do bitch about you when you're not around."
"Tell me who." His arms circle me pulling me close. "Tell me their names and I'll fire every last one of them."
I gasp when he opens the clasp of my bra with one hand. "If I tell you all their names there won't be anyone left working for you."
He smiles against my mouth, his breath mingling with mine, his teeth brushing against my bottom lip. "Make me forget all of them, Ellie. Make me forget everyone in the world but you."
***
His mouth eats at mine, his tongue pulling, taking, making me want even more than he's already given me. He fucked me once on the bed before we took a shower together.