Total pages in book: 47
Estimated words: 46717 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 234(@200wpm)___ 187(@250wpm)___ 156(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 46717 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 234(@200wpm)___ 187(@250wpm)___ 156(@300wpm)
Maybe it’s a little manipulative, but it’s the best I have right now.
And anyway, it might not even work.
How would he react if he knew I was a virgin?
Surely, if all he wanted was a one-night stand or a quick fling, he’d be annoyed and angry. He’d feel like he wasted his time.
“Hallie?”
He raises his hand as though to touch me, then clenches his teeth as he lets it drop. Cars and pedestrians are passing us. We’re not alone, not even close.
Plenty of people around here could recognize either one of us.
“I’m a virgin,” I tell him, watching his face.
He does something strange.
I didn’t expect this.
He smiles.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Hayden
I stare at my woman, a smile on my face. I have to smile when I hear that word coming from her, virgin, telling me she really will only ever be mine.
Her beauty couldn’t be more evident, even in her casual clothes, the jeans and the pale green shirt. Her hair adorably messy.
A virgin.
She’ll belong to me…no, she already belongs to me.
But I’ll solidify my claim as I thrust inside her, the only man she’ll ever feel.
If any man tries to change that, tries to touch her….
I can’t even think about what I’d do.
“You’re not annoyed?” she asks.
“No,” I whisper, starting the car and pulling from the spot.
I feel like I’m in a dream. If she weren’t Graham’s daughter, there would be nothing at all to stop me.
Just this news dominating my mind causes me to want to take her home or to the nearest luxury hotel and claim her savagely, hungrily. Claim her like the starving predator she makes me.
Only she can satiate me.
“Where are we going?” she asks as we pass the laundromat.
I scan the street.
“I’m looking for somewhere I can kiss you.”
My voice comes out as a carnal growl.
She makes a soft whimpering noise that goes right to my base, so much sweeter than through the phone…though I know, I have to be careful.
I can’t do more than kiss her, not here, especially since it’ll be her first time.
Maybe I’ll be that lucky, getting my woman pregnant our first time.
But no, this is it, the end. It’s almost three. There isn’t much time left.
I pull into a nearby alleyway, driving to the end where nobody can see us.
Then I pounce on my woman.
She makes a noise of surprised delight as I quickly lean over, guiding my lips to hers, my hand automatically grabbing onto her thigh.
Our tongues clash more urgently than the first time we kissed, with the added heat of our phone calls to fuel it.
My hand begins to move up her leg toward her sex.
Something deep inside drives me, feeling even more primal than my seed. It’s the word virgin bouncing around my thoughts, telling me she will only ever be….
“Mine,” I whisper in between the kisses.
She leans back, her head tilted, her lips red from the pleasure.
“What?” she says softly.
I warn myself to calm down, to stop.
I can’t cross this line.
Especially not now, when Janine’s about to tear us apart.
But I can’t stop either, can’t bring myself to leave this unspoken. She needs to hear it, to know it, even if we can never act on it.
“I told you how I never cared about any other women,” I say.
“Yes,” she cries eagerly, with passion in her voice that makes me think she’s wanted to ask about this before now.
“It was the truth,” I go on. “But when I saw you – when I returned to the States – it all changed. Right away, Hallie. I knew I wanted you. I knew I had to claim you. It all came rushing in, all these feelings….”
“Of belonging together,” she says softly.
“Yes,” I say, voice flooded with passion.
“Of…having a….”
“A family,” I whisper, my heart pounding, our noses touching as we lean in for another kiss.
“Yes,” she gasps, leaning back a little. “Do you want that?”
“I want everything with you,” I tell her. “You’re mine, Hallie. I mean what I said earlier, but it wasn’t just about sex. It was – it is – everything. Your future is mine. Your body, your young, gorgeous body that’s going to carry my children into this world and….”
“What?” she murmurs, her eyes glistening. “Why did you stop?”
“I’m surprised you’re not running away… or calling me insane.”
She smiles. “How could I? I feel the same.”
We’re about to kiss again when her cell phone blares from the pocket of her jeans.
“It’s mom,” she says, wincing as she swipes to answer and holds the phone to her ear. “Yeah…no, yeah, we’re on our way.”
She hangs up, looking at me bleakly.
“She doesn’t sound happy,” Hallie says, swallowing audibly. “I think we should go.”
I sit back with an effort, then lean across and kiss her again, giving into the ever-present desire. She returns the kiss, placing her hands on my chest.