“So what do you think of the place?” Gunner asked. He moved away from the door and leaned against the back of the love seat in his bedroom’s sitting area.
Trinity stood in the bathroom doorway. “It’s nice, but I have to be honest with you. Don’t you think it’s a little excessive? You’re just one person. Why do you need all of this space?”
“You have to understand,” he started without looking at her, “I grew up dirt-poor, living in the projects with my parents and my two sisters. We barely had a roof over our heads, let alone three meals a day.” He finally glanced up when Trinity moved closer to him. “It’s not that I need all of this, but when I was a kid, I had vowed that there were two things that I would have when I made a little cash. A nice, big house and the coolest car money could buy.”
Trinity laid her hand on his arm and an electric charge shot through him, making him want to pull her to him and never let go.
She quickly snatched her hand away. “Gunner, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to offend you. I have no right to judge you on how you spend your money.”
He shrugged. “No harm done. What I have might not be necessary, but it’s what I wanted. And sweetheart, I always get what I want.”
Gunner tossed and turned. Despite his fatigue he couldn’t sleep, couldn’t get comfortable and he knew why. Trinity. He’d left her three hours ago to get settled in and familiar with his home. From the moment he spotted her at the airport, his body responded and the tightness in his groin hadn’t let up. He would admit that he had been with his share of women, but he could honestly say that none affected him the way she did. There was something about her. He’d felt it years ago and now the web of attraction was stronger than ever.
He jumped when a loud crash came from downstairs. What the... He leaped off the bed and hurried into his jeans, not bothering with his briefs or a shirt. His overactive imagination took him on a wild ride of trying to determine what had fallen, hoping Trinity was okay. He rushed out of the room and down the stairs, taking them two at a time.
“Stop!” Trinity stood and dropped the broom.
“What the hell happened?” He froze on the step leading down to the foyer, where Trinity was standing over a pile of broken glass. “Are you all right?”
“Yeah, yeah, I’m fine. I wanted you to stop because when I knocked over your vase, glass flew all over the place. I didn’t want you to step on any since you don’t have on a shirt.” She shook her head. “I mean since you don’t have on any shoes,” she said, flustered. She quickly turned from him and went back to sweeping up the glass near the large round table in the massive entryway. “I don’t understand. You have very little furniture down here, yet you have a table in the middle of the foyer with what was
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