A Proposal They Can't Refuse (Vega Family Love Stories, #1)

by Natalie Caña

He straightened, his face blank. “Is that what this is for you, casual sex?” Kamilah’s head jerked back. “Fuck, no. There’s nothing casual about this.” She was having a difficult time with the thought that this was Liam, the same Liam who’d once hidden her in one of his father’s empty whiskey barrels in an attempt to get her parents to forget her at his house so she could sleep over. Then again, he wasn’t that Liam at all. He was completely different in body and in temperament. This Liam was large and hard and dark. The only people he showed his soft underbelly to were his grandfather and her. Some primal part of her loved that, loved that she got a piece of him that no one else did. She leaned in and put her mouth to his neck like she did when they slept—the other time he showed vulnerability with her. “Damn right there’s not.” He turned his head and gave her a hard kiss. “This is not casual.” A sucking kiss on her neck. “This is years’ worth of anticipation, expectation, desire.” He worked his way down to her nipple. She nodded. It was all of that and more. It was two magnets finally getting close enough to snap together. It was the last two pieces of a thousand-piece puzzle finally clicking into place. It was two hearts beating in time, finally. I love you. I loved the boy you were, and I love the man you are. There was no more denying it. No more acting like she cared about him solely as a friend. No more excusing her pull to him as an attraction birthed of close conta...