Total pages in book: 72
Estimated words: 73043 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 365(@200wpm)___ 292(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 73043 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 365(@200wpm)___ 292(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
I tried not to be jealous of the damn dogs, but I didn’t quite accomplish that feat.
The way she rubbed them all, allowing them to lick her face…yeah, I wanted to do that.
I was a grown ass man…and yet my body was acting like it was sixteen again instead of forty-fucking-one.
Seriously…I was a total freakin’ goner.
Every single time I left and came back, it was like she got infinitely more beautiful.
And I thought a few months ago when I saw her at the airport she’d been beautiful. Now? Well, now she was fuckin’ gorgeous.
Dressed in her tight ass pants, loose white shirt, and simple pale pink Converse sneakers?
She didn’t look special. She wasn’t dressed up, and she sure as hell wasn’t trying to impress anybody.
Which only served to impress me all the more.
It was her semi see-through shirt, that barely revealed a light green sports bra, that was really doing it for me, though.
She looked like everything I’d ever dreamed of.
“All right.” The door finally opened, this time emitting Shiloh. “Y’all can go in now.”
I grinned at Shiloh, James’ wife, and winked. “How are you doing today, darlin’?”
Shiloh shook her head. “You and that sweet talkin’ mouth aren’t going to have any effect on me today. Janie, remember that you’re picking Scout up from school, okay?”
Janie gave Shiloh a thumb up. “Will do.”
Shiloh waved and she was gone, leaving us alone once again.
“I thought she was going to leave this place to the men?”
Janie snorted. “They all say that but then a woman comes in with a cute baby they can snuggle, and they all forget about their promises to stay away.”
“I hear babies do that to women.” I chuckled dryly.
“Not to me.” She shivered like someone had just walked over her grave.
Which intrigued me. Didn’t every woman want children?
“You say that like you don’t want kids,” I observed.
“I don’t,” she admitted. “At least, not anytime soon. I reserve the right to change my mind in the future, but right now, the thought of having kids gives me hives.”
I snorted.
“You’re young yet,” I agreed. “Give it a couple years, though. You’ll change your mind.”
“It’s not likely to change. I may be young, but I know what I want.” she grunted.
The reminder of her age was enough to cause my dick to harden.
I didn’t know what it was about her being that much younger than me, but every single time I thought about our age gap—at least since she’d turned a legal age of consent—I’d done nothing but think about having her.
I’d stayed away for so long that it was almost out of habit now, but each time I came back, it got harder and harder to deny.
I wanted her.
Badly.
And I wanted her bad enough that I didn’t care what happened later on—namely what her father and her uncles would do to me if they ever caught on to my attraction.
Because, although everyone knew—even me since I’d seen her shoot—she could protect herself, that didn’t mean that they weren’t overly protective of her.
Hell, for the first five years I’d known them, they’d kept everyone away from me—women and children included.
It’d only been lately that I’d started seeing Janie more often.
She’d made herself an integral part of their operation with her computer skills.
Computer skills that I knew she used to check into me—but consistently came up empty each time she tried to dig deeper.
I think I was beginning to frustrate her, though, because she’d been doing it more and more lately.
“Rafe?”
Shit.
I hurried to the door that she was holding open and took it from her grasp. “Thanks.”
“You’re welcome,” she said softly, then gasped when her dog cut her off, causing her to jerk backward and to the side.
I caught her before she could hit the wall and pulled her into my chest.
It was only for a few long seconds, but having her body pressed against mine had made my world shift on its axis.
I felt everything in the thirty seconds that she was pressed to me.
Her heart pounding in her chest. Her breasts pillowed on top of my arm. Her ass pressed against my dick—my very hard dick that stayed hard whenever she was in the vicinity. Her hair brushed my neck and face, and her hand automatically went to my arm to help keep herself from falling.
She gasped and turned, then smiled.
And I realized that I was fucking gone.
Absolutely and completely gone.
She owned me.
But then her father’s voice coming from the conference room made me come to my senses, and I set her away from me.
“Gotta work on that with them, too. Personal space is important when it comes to dogs like that. You want them to protect you, not trip you up,” I told her, acting for all I was worth as if I wasn’t affected by her proximity.
Janie licked her lips. “Yeah.”