Hunks: Opposites Attract (17 page)

If Brian didn’t put a stop to Sapphire’s wandering touch the two of them would be doing something that didn’t involve learning about each other’s childhood hopes and dreams. He laid his hand on top of hers stopping the movement.

He wouldn’t be able to focus if Sapphire kept touching him like she was. She might not be aware of how the slightest touch from her turned him on faster than a light switch bringing light into a room.

“Come on,” Brian encouraged, brushing his thumb over the back of her hand. “Give me all of the juicy details of your life before I met you.”

“I have two older siblings, a brother and a sister. They both think the world owes them something.” Sapphire sighed as her eyes looked off into the distance instead of at him. “Sometimes, it’s very hard to even be in the same room with them.”

Brian heard the hurt in his woman’s voice making him wonder if there was more going on with Sapphire’s siblings than she was telling him or would let him know about. Didn’t she understand he was trying to become the shoulder she could rely on?

“Do your brother and sister expect you to help them out a lot? Are they not successful as you are?”

Sapphire glanced back at him with shocked eyes. “No, Terrell and Tamara are very successful. Both of them have very good degrees. My brother is an engineer and my sister is a divorce attorney. They both just think I should jump at their every whim because I’m the youngest.”

“My parents had me after my siblings turned fifteen years old. My mother’s doctor had informed her that her getting pregnant again after having such a hard delivery with the twins was highly unlikely. She’d gotten some scarring and she believed him. One day my mother started feeling sick and she thought it was just the flu because my dad had gotten it the week before. Imagine her shock and disbelief when she went to the doctor and got back her blood work telling her she was two months pregnant.”

No doubt her mother was thrown, Brian thought to himself.

“How old was your mother when she found out about you?” He got the feeling Sapphire’s mother wasn’t as young as he thought she might have been.

“My mother had just turned forty-two the day before she found out about me. Of course, she was totally scared and then happy at the same time. However, it took my father a little longer to come around she told me, but my parents were very loving and a big part of my life when I was growing up.”

Sapphire placed her head on his shoulder and Brian resumed stroking her smooth back. “How was your childhood with such a huge gap between you and your sibling? I can’t believe they were too thrilled about a baby coming into the family.”

Sighing, Sapphire shrugged her shoulder. “I guess it was okay. I mean my brother and sister weren’t home much because of our age differences. Plus once they graduated from high school both of them rushed off to college. I don’t think it was to get away from me, but it could have been. Every once in a while back then my brother took me places with him but not that often.”

“So are you closer with your brother than your sister?” Brian loved how Sapphire was telling him more about herself.

“I think I can tolerate Terrell for a longer period of time than Tamara. My sister is always trying to give me advice about the way I dress or how I didn’t make the right career choice. She hates that I became a dentist and I never really found out why. But if I had to guess, she didn’t think I had what it took to become anything really important. She was Daddy’s little girl until I came along and she thinks I stole the title away from her.”

Frowning, Brian glanced down at Sapphire wondering why Tamara had a problem with her little sister. She was so amazing. How could anyone not love her? He wasn’t sure if he would be able to spend five minutes with Terrell or Tamara. Neither one of them seemed like they loved Sapphire at all.

“Why does your sister care if you’re a dentist? Doesn’t her job keep her busy enough so she’ll stay out of your business?”

Moving away from him, Sapphire sat up on the bed wrapping the sheet around her body. Brian couldn’t get over how beautiful Sapphire looked with her hair falling down around her shoulders messed up like a woman who had been well loved by her man.

Sapphire brushed a strand of hair away from her cheek. “My sister feels like she’s always right. I remember when I was a little girl and Tamara tried to teach me how to ride a bike. Well, she thought I was too old to have someone holding the seat for me. So, she let go and I crashed my bike into a fence. Thank God, I didn’t get too hurt.”

“Oh baby, I’m so sorry your sister was so mean to you,” Brian said. Sitting up in the bed, he rested his back against the headboard tugging Sapphire to him. “Did you always have a bad relationship with Tamara? Did your parents try to do anything to fix it?” His parents wouldn’t have stood for any of his brothers or sisters being mean or cruel to the other ones.

“I don’t have problems with my sister,” Sapphire denied. “We just butt heads because Tamara has a strong personality and so do I when I need it. I don’t blindly follow behind her and she hates it.” Sapphire moved back from him and Brian instantly saw the change in her body language.

“That’s enough about me. Why don’t you tell me more about you? What makes you tick? Why did you decide to become a mailman? Fill me in on your life story.”

Brian wasn’t fooled by the sudden change in conversation. Sapphire was trying to distance herself from him. He might have gone too far too soon, but he would get himself back on the right track before the night was over.

Chapter Twenty-Nine

“I didn’t think you would be into pillow talk,” Brian teased, watching as Sapphire moved away from him and got out the bed. His eyes followed her around the room loving how her full breasts swayed with her confident movements.

Never in his life had Brian felt this content after making love to a woman. Sapphire had brought peacefulness into his life, something that he wasn’t used to having around him. So he wasn’t about to let it slip through his fingers. Not after waiting so long to finally have it.

“What woman doesn’t want to talk after making love?” Sapphire questioned him. Picking up his shirt, she slid her arms through the sleeves and then buttoned it up.

“You don’t mind if I wear your shirt, do you?” she asked, coming back across the room rejoining him in the bed.

The mere thought of something that was on his body earlier was now against Sapphire’s silky skin turned him on more than seeing her naked had a few minutes ago.

“Sweetheart, you can wear anything of mine anytime you want,” he whispered as he tugged Sapphire closer to him before planting a soft kiss on her lips.

“Hmmm,” Sapphire moaned then moved back from him. “I’m not going to let you sidetrack me with your kisses. You aren’t going to use them to get out of telling me more about yourself.”

Talking about himself wasn’t something Brian loved doing because most of the time he was a pretty private person and didn’t put his personal life out there for everyone to know about. It wasn’t that he would consider himself shy because he wasn’t. He got along well with people and especially women. But some things about his life Brian liked keeping to himself unless he knew the person long enough and well enough to tell them more.

Yet, if he wanted to move forward with Sapphire, Brian guessed he would have to open up further to her.

“What do you want to know?” he asked, running his finger down the side of Sapphire’s face. He loved touching her even the smallest contact.

“Anything you want to tell me is fine with me,” she encouraged.

“Like you, I have a brother and sister, but my sister is the oldest while my brother is the youngest. Both are married with two children and we get along pretty well with each other. My mother is still alive and got remarried about five years ago. My step-father is a pretty good guy. He treats her right, so I don’t have a problem with him.

“Like most mothers, my mother is pushing for me to get married like my siblings and of course she wants grandkids. However, I’m not thinking about marriage yet. I know I should be since I just had another birthday last month.”

“Why aren’t you thinking about marriage?”

Brian raked the question over in his head for a few minutes. For the longest time, he believed marriage wasn’t for him because he couldn’t see himself committed to the same person everyday for the rest of his life. However, now since he was here with Sapphire, he was beginning to see his future in a very different way. Marriage might not be so bad after all.

“I haven’t found the right woman yet.”

Laughing, Sapphire shook her head at him causing her thick hair to brush across her shoulders. “I can’t believe you said those words.”

“Why are you laughing?” Brian uttered. “I gave you an honest answer.” His mind was filled with thought after thought why Sapphire could be laughing at him.

“Come on, that’s the same excuse every guy uses. You know I’m right. How many times did you hear Nash say those same words before Shauntie came into his life again?”

Something clicked inside of Brian’s brain. Sapphire was telling him the truth. Nash and Chance both told him those same words a lot. He just never paid any attention to them before because he agreed with them.

The harder he tried to ignore the truth the more it persisted. Brian didn’t know how it was possible or even if Sapphire was feeling the same way but he was falling in love with her. The fact was undeniable.

He was falling...No, he had already fallen hard for Sapphire. Now, his only problem was what could he do about it? Could Sapphire see herself with a working class man instead of a man who worked sixteen hour days or longer?

“What has you in such deep thought?” Placing her hand on his knee, Sapphire leaned closer to him.

“Truthfully, I was thinking about you,” Brian admitted.

A surprised looked passed over Sapphire’s pretty features as she moved back from him. “Really...why?”

The question had been asked, but was Brian ready for the answer. His confidence was pretty high when it came to other women, but this was his first time giving it a go with someone like Sapphire.

Brian opened his mouth to answer her, but at the very last second changed his mind. He wasn’t ready to go down that unchartered road yet. He couldn’t chance messing up what he had going this week with Sapphire.

They still had plenty of time to talk about things before New Year’s Eve came. He would bide his time until then.

“It was nothing,” Brian lied. “How about we try to get some sleep? We can talk more in the morning.”

“Are you sure?” Sapphire asked as she crawled back underneath the covers with him.

“Positive,” Brian answered as he wrapped Sapphire up in his arms. He was finished talking for the night. Tomorrow was a new day and they could resume their getting to know you conversation again over breakfast.

Chapter Thirty

Moving Brian’s arm off her body, Sapphire eased away from him hoping not to wake him. Last night had been such a turning point for the both of them. They opened up to each other more than before. She knew these little things about him and his family now that she hadn’t known before. Sapphire couldn’t wait to see what else Brian was going to reveal to her the longer they were here.

Slipping out of the bed, she glanced over her shoulder making sure Brian was still asleep and a soft smile pulled at her lips. He was curled up on his side with her pillow tucked against his chest. She never saw a more appealing sight in her life. If she wasn’t overdue for her blog update she wouldn’t have left that big, comfortable bed for any reason.

Sapphire walked the short distance to the desk and her laptop. Sitting down on the chair, she folded her leg up and left the other one to dangle above the floor. Pushing the small button at the top of her laptop, Sapphire let her computer come to life while she thought about Shauntie and Emerald.

Since she came to the cottage she hadn’t spoken to Emerald once which was very surprising because Emerald loved checking up on her and Shauntie like a nosy mother hen. Emerald couldn’t help herself from wondering what was going on in the lives of her best girlfriends.

God, if Emerald knew she was out here with Brian all alone her girlfriend would break every speed limit known to man to get out here to check out Brian in the flesh. Luckily for her, Shauntie must be too busy with Nash to have informed Miss Busybody about her current living arrangements which was for the best.

Sapphire already had her hands full with Brian so adding her friend Emerald to the mix just wouldn’t work, at least not right now.

Glancing at her laptop, Sapphire noticed it was up and ready to go. She went through the steps of getting onto the internet and then maneuvered her way to her blog. A huge sense of accomplishment filled her chest when she spotted more comments than the last time.

Her personal blog was becoming a hit and her followers were looking for more and more from her which she had no problem giving them at all as long as she stayed somewhat anonymous. Sapphire clicked on the comments and began reading through them one by one.

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Sapphire’s World

8 Comments: (new)

Keli Babe:
Make the next move. What are you waiting for? This guy sounds super hot! I mean what is holding you back?

HorseLover1743:
I say you should wait for him to make the next move. Some men don’t like overly aggressive women.

Tina Stripes
: You just teased us with his looks. Give us more of a description. Is he Hugh Jackman or the guy from White Collar with the killer blue eyes good-looking? I need more before I can give you any kind of answer.

Daredevil Guy:
Being a guy, I think it takes some of the pressure off when a hot chick makes the move. I’m assuming you’re hot so let him know you want him. It’s a turn on!

Honesty Girl:
First ignore Dare Devil Guy. Go after him. Looks aren’t everything to everyone. Please, let us know how it goes. I love following your life through this blog. It’s so much fun. Thanks again for sharing.