Propositioning Mr. Raine (Riding the Raines Book 1) Read online

  “This is really scary.”

  “I know.” His hand tightened on hers. “Take a chance with me.”

  She found herself nodding as she stared into his eyes. “Okay but we’re being totally honest, right? If one of us needs a break, we’ll speak up.”

  “We’ll be totally honest.”

  “Okay.”

  “Tomorrow, bring your clothes here.”

  Reality sank in for Trina at that moment, the full weight of it making her heart speed up. “We’re really going to do this, then? We’re really going to try to live together?”

  He nodded. “We sure are.”

  The moment of panic that hit her started to ease. This was Navarro and he wanted her. This was her chance to be happy with a man she’d fallen in love with.

  “So what do you want me to do around here to help out?”

  He laughed. “You could always bake, but if you do, you’re going to have to help me work it all off or you’re going to have to put me on a diet.”

  “I’d lo—” She slammed her mouth closed, horrified at what she’d almost said.

  Navarro’s eyes narrowed. “What?”

  “Nothing.”

  He arched a black eyebrow. “Total honesty. Finish what you were going to say.”

  She looked away from him, her cheeks warming as she blushed.

  “Trina… Don’t make me get it out of you.” He smiled and hit the button on the remote.

  She jerked at the startling sensation of the vibrator against her clit on the strongest setting. She closed her eyes, bit her lip, and let the pleasure grip her. The vibrator turned off suddenly. Her eyes opened.

  “That was mean.” She smiled.

  “Babe, if you don’t tell me what you were going to say, I’m going to hog-tie you and do that over and over until you finish that sentence. We’re being totally honest with each other, remember?”

  “I was going to say…” Her eyes met his and she blushed again. “I’d love you even if you gained a ton of weight.”

  She waited for him to tense, frown, or react negatively to her words but instead he smiled, his eyes lighting up. He dropped the remote on the bed, reached for her, and his hand cupped her face.

  “Do you love me?”

  She tried to look away but Navarro moved closer, putting his face inches from hers, holding her immobile as she gazed back at him. She loved his eyes, could stare into them all day long, she decided.

  “Say it to me. Please?” His voice lowered to a husky tone.

  Trina knew he had her, and she had given herself away by a slip of the tongue. She took a deep breath and expelled it slowly. He had asked for the truth so she’d give it to him.

  “I…love you. I don’t know how it happened so fast but I do.”

  “Thank God.”

  Her eyebrows shot up in surprise. “Thank God?”

  He nodded, grinning. “You think I just wanted you to live with me for sex every night? I’m so nuts about you that it isn’t funny. I knew I loved you the night you let me rope and brand you. I suspected that I was falling for you hard and fast, but I’m a fighter. I resisted, but when you straddled my lap to let me brand your skin with that rope… Damn, Trina, you branded me right back.”

  She reached up to grip his jaw. “Say it to me.”

  He moved closer so their lips almost brushed. “I love you.”

  She threw herself at him, her body slamming into his. He laughed and caught her as they tumbled back on the bed, his body cushioning hers as they fell flat. Trina ended up sprawled on top of him as she kissed him. Navarro reached for something, his arm stretching out, and suddenly she cried out into his mouth as her clit started to vibrate hard. He’d found the remote.

  Navarro rolled them so he was on top of her. He spread her thighs, entering her in one hard motion, burying his cock deep. He pinned her under him with the vibrator on high. Trina tore her mouth from his so she didn’t bite him and threw her head back from the sheer pleasure he was giving her. Navarro started to ride her hard and fast, his body powering inside her.

  “Oh God.”

  “Say my name,” he ordered as he twisted his hips, changing the angle of his cock, driving into her over and over.

  “Navarro!”

  She cried out his name as she came minutes later, feeling him coming with her as he jerked, groaning softly.

  When she opened her eyes after recovering from the intense orgasm, Navarro was smiling at her. He still had her pinned under him and she realized he’d turned off the vibrator. She reached up since he’d lifted his chest a little off her body to give her plenty of breathing space and teased his nipple. Their gazes locked.

  “You know this is crazy, right?”

  He chuckled. “So?”

  She nodded. “We’ll be crazy together.”

  “It is going to be a hell of a lot of fun.”

  “Yeah. It will be. I have the best time with you.”

  He slowly withdrew from her body to sit up on his knees. He gripped hers and pushed them up. “I love that you’re flexible.”

  She laughed. “Is there a reason you’re shoving my knees to my chest?”

  “You said this thing wasn’t comfortable enough to sleep in.”

  She laughed as she shifted around to help while he unhooked the vibrator straps. He winked at her and leaned over to set the small vibrator on the table by the bed.

  “You get the light.”

  “Me?” He grinned. “I did the work.”

  “You’re the big badass who used to play with bulls. I hear you have rodeo championship buckles. Someone said you were some rodeo star.” She was never going to stop teasing him about that.

  He laughed as he climbed off the bed. “I think we need to install one of those sound-activated, on-and-off controls in here for the lights.”

  Trina rolled on her side, laughing. “We can’t.”

  He stopped by the light switch and turned to face her, smiling. “You’re only saying that because you’re over there and my ass is up to shut off the light.”

  She rolled to her knees. “Imagine this. You have already installed that device on the light…”

  His grin widened and he nodded. “I’d be imagining it from the bed since I wouldn’t be standing over here.”

  She laughed. “So it’s installed and we’re in bed. We’re going at it.” She bent over, bracing one hand on the bed to balance her upper body. “And you’re behind me.”

  “I love this. Keep going. I can totally picture it.”

  She slapped her ass—and then slapped it again, then again. She started to laugh. “Remind you of a sound we make?” She dropped down. “The light would be turning on and off so fast it would blow up.”

  He threw back his head and laughed. His eyes sparkled with amusement as he stared at her. “Maybe that isn’t such a hot idea in the bedroom after all.”

  “Or the living room or the dining room.”

  He flipped off the light. “Okay. No sound-activated lights in our house.”

  Trina laid down on the bed and it dipped as Navarro climbed on it with her. He curled next to her, pulling up the covers to tuck them both in, and then he tugged her into his arms. Trina placed her hand on his lower stomach, loving the feel of his warm skin. His arm was wrapped around her back and his hand rested on her hip.

  “I’m glad you’re here. This feels like the most right thing in my life.”

  Hot tears pricked Trina’s eyes. “I know, but I feel a little guilty.”

  “Why?” He rubbed her hip as his other hand curled over her hand on his stomach, holding it.

  “I loved my husband. I really did. It’s just that…”

  “You can tell me anything, Trina. I know how much he meant to you. It’s okay. I’m a little jealous but I know it’s possible to love more than one person.”

  “I feel more for you. I never curled up with him at night and felt like it was the one and only place I really belonged.” She hesitated. “You feel like�€