Total pages in book: 47
Estimated words: 47176 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 236(@200wpm)___ 189(@250wpm)___ 157(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 47176 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 236(@200wpm)___ 189(@250wpm)___ 157(@300wpm)
Of course, he’ll save her.
They were together.
I’m just… the woman he had some fun with.
It doesn’t matter, I tell myself. None of that does.
Just Kelly.
It’s all too much to take.
I can’t think about those two things, which seem completely opposite…Jamie and I kissed, did other stuff, melted into lust, and now Jamie’s determined to rescue my sister, his ex.
How can they both be true?
I was going to tell her. That’s the worst part.
Standing, I gesture at the door. “I’m going to get some sleep. Can you wake me if there’s anything else? With Kelly?”
“Yes,” Jamie says. “I will.”
He said he would, him in particular.
I can’t help but imagine him prowling into my bedroom, leaning over my bed and gently taking my shoulders in his savage hands, shaking me awake and then guiding his smirking lips to mine.
No, he’d give me news of Kelly.
This isn’t about him and me anymore.
It never was.
CHAPTER
TEN
Jamie
I don’t really wake, as much as sit up and stare at the alarm clock on the bedside table.
Switching it off quickly – I’m not sure Patrick or Peggy are used to waking at 5:00 am. I walk to the window and look at Peggy’s large property.
A guard paces back and forth, hand near his hip, and I know there’s another at the rear of the building.
Peggy hadn’t asked why I feel the need for all the extra security here when I was willing to meet with Junior on my own.
The answer’s simple.
Jennifer’s here.
Taking my phone, I open the email app and navigate to Matt’s account.
It’s there, sent late last night, a video from Kelly.
Junior has included a note.
Day Two, tick tick tick…
After taking a quick shower, I get changed and walk into the hallway, pausing outside Jennifer’s room.
We’re right next to each other, hence my inability to get almost any sleep last night. There were some stolen hours, maybe two or three, but that’s it.
I kept thinking about going next door, reaching down and slipping my hand beneath the sheets, grabbing her bare thigh like I did in the studio.
My dick hardened against my boxers, my seed leaking as I thought about what we would do – the primal sex we would have – before we were interrupted.
Now, I pause outside her door, taking a moment to steady myself.
We haven’t even spoken about what happened. The kiss, the rest of it, anything.
She doesn’t even know the truth about Kelly.
Can I tell her?
I made a promise. I’ve always been a man of my word, ever since I promised Matt we were going to get through BUDs together, the initial wave of SEAL training.
I told him we would do it, and that was that.
We did. We made it happen.
But with the promise I made for Kelly…
I didn’t expect to fall so hard for her sister.
I didn’t expect to need her, my Jennifer, so badly I ache.
I need her so badly I can’t even knock steadily on her door—my fist trembles.
“Hello?” she calls, not sounding sleepy at all.
“It’s me.”
My body is tense already, all too aware we’re going to be alone for the first time since the studio yesterday.
“Can I come in?”
“Yeah,” she says softly.
Pushing the door open, I spend a moment greedily drinking in the sight of her. She’s sitting on top of the sheets, wearing a baggy T-shirt that shows her pert nipples, plus some high PJ shorts that give me a tasty look at her thick gorgeous legs.
Her hair is disheveled, her eyes alight, glistening as though she’s been crying. I almost feel guilty at still wanting her this hungrily, but I can’t.
There’s no way to get my body to stop its possessive intent.
“Have you slept?” I ask, walking across the room.
Like mine, the room is simple, with clean sheets and everything smelling like it’s recently been dusted. Peggy’s nothing if not neat.
“A little,” she says, keeping her voice low.
She glances at the door. I closed it when I walked in and did it without thinking.
Now I walk over to her, take the chair from the desk, and sit next to the bed.
“I’ve got a video for you,” I say. “From Kelly.”
She tugs at the fabric of her shorts, making my hungry body stir. It’s the way the fabric clings to her legs, reminding me of how her gorgeous thighs looked in my hands, squeezing, her skin turning a luscious shade of red….
I focus on her face, on the twist to her lips.
She nods quickly. “Let me see.”
I hand her the phone, then stand, meaning to leave.
Jennifer’s gaze snaps to me.
“Where are you going?”
“I thought you’d want some privacy. She’s your sister.”
Sassiness into my woman’s voice. She narrows her eyes.
“She’s your ex.”
I clench my teeth, almost roaring it all right now.
It’s difficult not to leap onto the bed, tear at her clothes – I’m guessing Peggy loaned her some, hence the T-shirt – and reveal her nakedness again.