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“What do you do with your days, besides swim laps and proposition women in prison parking lots?” “I thought we had a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ rule.” “Yeah, of course. But I mean, the normal stuff. There must be something normal that you do during the day?”
“Well, I’m a night owl so I don’t usually come to bed until three or four, and I like to sleep in until ten or eleven.”
“You should walk around like this whenever you’re here from now on. Drop your clothes at the door. That should be a new rule.” “I guess you should have made that one of your terms then. It’s too late now.”
“There’s always next month, when we renegotiate.”
“It’d be worth it just to watch them die from jealousy. You are just …” His words fade as his eyes roam shamelessly. “I can’t believe you’re mine.”
My heart
I’ve been ogled by men before, but Gabriel’s the first one who makes me feel like this. Like I’m a gift from the heavens above, beyond perfect in every way. He must think so, if he’s willing to pay this much for me.
“My body is yours,”
“For now. But let’s be clear, I am not yours, and I never will be.” “Whatever you need to tell yourself.”
“But a month from now, the last thing you’ll be thinking ab...
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“That would require that I actually care about you.” “And that would be so impossible? ...
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“Come on, Gabriel. Let’s be real here about why we’re together, how we got together.”
“I could never love a man like you.” He chews his bottom lip in thought. “Even if a man like me were willing to change?”
“I’ll believe that when ...
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Then again, this would be one location. And we’d own the goddamn hotel. “Plus, I doubt Mercy would be willing to move four hours away while her father is still in prison, which he could be for years.” Caleb’s head whips toward me. He pushes his sunglasses down the bridge of his nose to penetrate me with his high-browed stare. “What. The. Fuck. Gabe?”
Oh my god
“I’m not an idiot.” “Says the idiot who bribed a woman to fuck him and is now falling for her,”
“I’m not falling for her.” “’Kay. Let me fuck her tonight.”
“What a lovely surprise!” I say in a derisive tone. “Let me guess, you were in the neighborhood.” “Something like that. Who’s the twelve-year-old?”
“A friend.” “A friend who wants to fuck you.”
“We agreed to no men.” “You’re kidding me, right?”
“Our agreement has nothing to do with talking to people, so don’t you dare try to pull this jealous crap with me,” I hiss, my anger flaring at this alpha bullshit. “Not unless you want to fire every female staff member you’ve ever fucked.”
Gabriel’s mouth crashes into mine in a hard kiss, his tongue pushing in to tangle with mine, stealing whatever words remain. It’s fast and forceful, and not appropriate for college curbside, but something tells me Gabriel doesn’t care. At the moment, neither do I. It’s all I can do to keep my books within my grip and my knees from buckling, the heat from Gabriel’s hand on my hip searing. Someone somewhere lets out a catcall, and I know it has nothing to do with the car.
“Every time you scold me, I’m going to do that,” he warns in a seductive purr. “And every time I catch another man eyeing you, I’m going to do this, so they know you’re mine.”
“And you are so fucking hot when you’re telling me off.”
“Don’t worry, baby. I can wake you up when I get home, if you want.”
“You’d rather chew your own arm off than let my brother’s dick anywhere near you, but nice try. Besides, he wouldn’t dare.” “Why not? I thought you shared all the time.” “Not you.”
“Plus I can afford to hire other smart people to do all the work for me. See you later, baby.”
“Why’d you come?” He frowns. “What do you mean?” “I mean you texted me the code to get into your house, and those other two things could have waited until later. So, why’d you come here tonight?”
“Like you said, I was in the neighborhood.” I bit my bottom lip to hide the smile that’s threatening to escape. No, he wasn’t. He just wanted to see me tonight. Knowing that brings a thrill that I don’t want to feel. A sexy dimple pops with his smirk. “I’ll see you when I get home.”
It was around six when I decided that I needed to find her on campus, after her class, and before I had to head to the match. She’s right, I had no legitimate reason to. I just needed to see her. I needed to feel her supple body against mine, to taste her sweet lips, smell her silky skin, even if for only a few minutes. I needed to insinuate myself in her life.
“It’s time for me to make you feel good.” I press flush against her, letting my cock line up with the crack of her ass. I can’t wait to take that. Not tonight though. Tonight, I want to look into her eyes when I sink into her. I want her to curl her arms and her legs around me; I want her lips on mine.
“Are you ever not hard?” Her limbs are relaxed, offering no resistance. “Around you? No.”
“Around you?” She sighs, almost with reluctance. “No.”
“I like you half asleep. You’re less prickly.” “I thought you liked me prickly.” “I think I might like you sweet even more.”
“You’re going to start sleeping naked every night from now on.” I guide her hips until she’s flat on her back and then climb on top of her. “Am I, now?”
“You’re an angel.” Like, a goddamn angel handcrafted by Zeus or some shit.
She shows it to me now, parting her thighs wide, beckoning me with a demure smile. And that look on her face? That’s the look of a woman who desperately wants it and, for once, isn’t hiding that fact from me.
“You have no idea what you do to me, do you?” My voice is full of awe.
“You just don’t get it, do you?” “No, actually I don’t, Gabriel. Help me understand,”
“You can have anyone you want. Why are you so insistent on having me?” “I …”
“Look at me,” I order, gently settling my forehead against hers until our eyelashes are fluttering against each other’s and the brown of her irises is blurred.
“I told you I wasn’t going to.” When I’m all the way in, I pause and take the opportunity to slip my tongue in to taste her mouth. Even after sleep, she tastes sweet. “You are the sexiest woman alive,”
“Your heart is beating so fast,” she whispers breathlessly. “So is yours.”
“Ask me nicely,” I whisper, dragging the tip of my tongue over her lips. Her eyelashes flutter as she peers up at me. “Please make me cum.” I roll my hips once in a circle, earning her gasp. “How badly do you need it?” Her fingers dig into my ass, squeezing almost to the point of pain, and she jerks me forward, pulling me deeper into her. “I’m begging you.”
“That wasn’t dirty.” “No, it wasn’t.” I chuckle. “Don’t worry, next time I’ll make it extra dirty, sweetheart, I promise.”
Gabriel isn’t capable of something so personal, so emotional, is he? But it was him on top of me at 3:00 a.m., him slowly rolling his hips, devouring my mouth, keeping the pace slow, like he never wanted the moment to end. It felt like … making love. And when we finished climaxing, he gazed down at me and the look in his eyes was one of complete adoration.
He doesn’t stop his appraisal until he reaches my stilettos, and when his eyes lift again … They’re as dark and stormy as they were that first day in Fulcort’s visitor room. A predator’s gaze.
“You summoned me?”
“What took you so long to get here? I was expecting you an hour ago,” he asks in an overly calm, cool tone. “It takes time to look this good,”
“So much time that you couldn’t respond to a single message from me?”
“You asked me to meet you here tonight. Well, here I am. But I’m not your girlfriend, Gabriel. So let’s not pretend.” “And yet you are mine for the next month.”
