Total pages in book: 119
Estimated words: 113056 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 565(@200wpm)___ 452(@250wpm)___ 377(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 113056 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 565(@200wpm)___ 452(@250wpm)___ 377(@300wpm)
“Baby, give me a second to apologize.”
“Let me go. I don’t wanna hear it right now.”
“Tia, I’m sorry.” I put my mouth against her cheek as I said it. I rubbed my nose up her cheekbone. “Okay?”
She stopped struggling, but she was still pissed. I put my lips to her ear.
“I’m sorry. Anyone before you meant nothing. Not a fucking thing. You just threw me off when I was half asleep. I’m not sleepin’ well. I’m edgy.”
Her body relaxed a little bit but her eyes were still fiery.
I kissed her mouth and palmed her face. “I’m a dick. Forgive me.”
She shook her head and rolled her eyes. “You can’t boss me to forgive you.”
“Yes, I can,” I insisted and started to kiss her neck, tracing the curve of it with my tongue.
She shivered and her breath quickened, but she was still trying to resist me.
“Forgive me,” I ordered and took one of her tits into my hand and squeezed, nibbling on her earlobe.
She shivered again, but she was trying to fight that pull. She was chewing on her juicy lower lip.
“I have to talk to you. After I fuck you. Gonna fuck you now.” I smiled against her lips.
She tensed up.
“You don’t want me to fuck you?” I asked.
“No. No, I don’t.” she said, turning her face away but I could feel her resolve melting against me.
“No?” I teased and grabbed her hair and used it to bring her mouth to mine again.
“Tommy, I can’t.”
“Hm?” I got a hand under the shirt, into her panties, and to her ass. I squeezed and tongued her throat.
“You don’t have to, because I can. You just gotta take what I have to give you.” I grinded against her.
“Tommy, I really don’t think I can. All I can think about is poor Tess, and–”
“I have news. She’s okay. She’s in Zack’s hands by tonight.”
“Huh?” She jerked back and looked at me, wide-eyed.
“We’ll go to Vegas tonight, meet with Zack, get Tessa.”
The rest of the tension and anger in her locked tight body melted away, totally forgotten with this news.
“She’s okay? Thank God. Oh my God, ohmygod!”
“She is now, but I don’t know what she’s been through.”
“Where was she?”
“Mexico. Nephew of Juan Carlos Castillo has her.”
Tia jolted.
“Someone else took her but he got her back as a goodwill offering to us. Long story, can’t get into it right now. I would’ve told you last night, but you were dead asleep. Pack for us? Shit for three, no make it five days, just in case. Something formal, too. We’ll need formal for the Fete opening so pack my black Boss tux. If you want, you can buy your dress there. Up to you.”
She stared at me.
“Sarah and Tessa’s boys are coming so Tess can see her boys right away. Talked to Sarah last night.”
“Uh, wait. Um…”
She looked stunned. I knew she was trying to absorb all the facts I’d just spewed, but she was also thinking about being in Mexico, when Earl Johnson had taken her from me and put her through that hell.
I rubbed her shoulders and kissed her forehead.
“Gotta stay there a few days. It’s strategic. She’ll need to see her boys so we’ll bring them and Sarah can look after them. I’ll get someone to bring racks of dresses in to the hotel for you two to go through, if you want?”
“I’m not going to the Fete opening.”
“Yeah, I need you on my arm. I want Tessa there, too. I’m booking a hotel suite for all of us to stay together and it’ll be under heavy security.”
“I want nothing to do with that. I’d rather just stay home. I also don’t even want you to go but whatever.”
“Huh? What’s all this?”
“If you have to do Vegas, can you do Vegas alone, please?”
“Because you’re worried you’ll be sick the whole time?”
“Because I don’t wanna go. How on earth can you expect your sister, after being kidnapped, to go to a sex club opening?”
“I need to be there; I need you with me. And it doesn’t matter the venue; it’s strategic.”
“Huh?”
“I don’t wanna get into it. It’s about who took her, why, and all that shit. You don’t need the details but her being there will send a message to the little fuck that took her.”
“Tommy,” I whined and rubbed my eyes.
“Tia, I need to fuckin’ know you’re okay. Do this for me.”
“Last time we were there, things were kind of rough.”
Understatement.
“It was rough, yeah. But it was also beautiful, baby girl. Vegas was where you told me you loved me that first time, where you told me you were mine. It’s also where I knew how important it was for me to fix what’s broken in me.”
My heart swelled. “You and me are both a little bit broken, Tommy. But we’re like puzzle pieces that fit together.” I linked my fingers with his and tightened them.