Total pages in book: 124
Estimated words: 116046 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 580(@200wpm)___ 464(@250wpm)___ 387(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 116046 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 580(@200wpm)___ 464(@250wpm)___ 387(@300wpm)
I couldn’t help but grin. “Visiting, something I do quite often considering this is my childhood home and my parents still live here.”
A lovely flush filled her tanned cheeks as she turned to face my mother.
Clearing her throat, and shooting me a look that promised I’d be getting a lecture later, my mom gave a strained smile. “Joy, this is Ramón, my youngest son.”
“Hello, Joy. Nice to see you again.”
Joy’s gaze narrowed in on me as my mother arched her brows then smiled. “Oh, you know each other?”
“I wouldn’t say we know each other,” Joy said in a tight voice, obviously trying to hold her temper as she smoothed down the edges of her short green skirt, drawing my attention to her tanned legs. Fuck, even though she was short, she had great legs with plump, curvy thighs I wanted wrapped around me. “We’ve met once before. It was…memorable.”
Turning her attention to me, my mother tilted her head. “Ramón, why didn’t you tell me you knew Joy?”
“Like she said, we don’t really know each other. A couple months ago, we briefly met when I thought she was a gold digging whore trying to get money out of Jacob.”
“Jacob? Your cousin?” my mother echoed as she blinked at me in shock. “What does he have to do with any of this? And why in the world would you ever insult such a sweet young woman in such a foul manner? Really, Ramón, I raised you better than that. You should be ashamed of yourself.”
“I didn’t know she was a good woman. I mean look at her.” Inwardly, I rolled my eyes as Joy gave me a little evil glare that only made it harder not to have an unwanted erection. “I said I was sorry.”
“He threw money at me,” Joy added. The clouds parted, and sunlight turned her curls into gold as her little nostrils flared. Boy, she was pissed. And sexy.
And mine.
My mother gasped in genuine dismay. “You didn’t.”
“He sure did,” Joy said through gritted teeth.
Diego slowly shook his head while rubbing his jaw. “You threw money at her?”
“Look at her,” I said in frustration. Joy appeared just about ready to slit my throat. “She’s walking, talking, breathing sex.”
“Not helping,” Diego said in a low voice, filled with suppressed laughter.
“I didn’t want her to bother Aunt Doris. I was trying to be a nice guy and take care of the problem. How was I to know she was Jacob’s tutor? No tutors of mine were ever as hot as she is.” I sucked in a breath through my teeth as I drank Joy in. “Lord have mercy.”
“Right.” Joy marched up to me, the top of her head barely reaching my chin as we stood almost toe to toe. Energy arched between us like erotic, painful lighting. “You, being the misogynistic asshole that you are, looked at me and assumed I was a whore. Why? I was dressed in a conservative suit, I wasn’t wearing anything beyond a tasteful amount of makeup, and I wasn’t acting in a flirtatious manner. Where in that scenario do you get the idea that I was a prostitute?”
“I—”
She didn’t give me a chance to get another word in, instead shocking the shit out of me as she grasped her breasts, holding them up like an offering. My dick twitched as they jiggled slightly. “Is it these? Is it the fact I was born with large breasts? Something I have utterly no control over, something God decided to give me? Or is it the fact that you’re so narrow-minded that you can’t see past my body to even consider that I have a brain? That I might have a legitimate reason for being there?”
The world around me seemed to hold its breath as I stared down at this defiant little creature that consumed me. I lowered my voice, saying, “No, it was because the second I saw you, I would have given everything I own for the privilege of calling you mine.”
Her lovely eyes went wide for a second before I grasped the back of her neck and looped my other arm around her tiny waist, pulling her up so I could slam my mouth down onto hers.
Finally.
For one long moment I savored the feeling of her pillowy lips gently rubbing against my own. I gripped her full ass tight in my greedy hand, squeezing gently then growling at the lush feel of her. The moment our mouths connected, I knew I’d been right. She was the one. The woman I’d been waiting for. Guess my mom wasn’t full of shit about the ‘love at first kiss’ family legend. An immense sense of relief blended with the warmth and lust churning inside of me. Something settled in my mind, in my heart, as everything seemed to click into place.