Total pages in book: 36
Estimated words: 34680 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 173(@200wpm)___ 139(@250wpm)___ 116(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 34680 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 173(@200wpm)___ 139(@250wpm)___ 116(@300wpm)
“If you can answer that, you can probably take him down.”
“All right. Let me know when you get confirmation.”
“Sure thing. You coming to work on Monday?” she asks.
“I’ll get back to you on that.”
She snorts a laugh as I end the call.
A shadow darts down the hall outside my office. I’d recognize it anywhere.
“Vivian?” I call.
The shadow comes back, and she appears in the doorway. Today she’s wearing a cute little comfy set with kittens along the hem.
“Sorry. I was just going to the kitchen to practice my dessert. I only have two more days before the dinner thing.”
“Don’t worry too much. Grant and Amelia are old friends of mine. They’ll love whatever you make.” I pat my knee. “Come here.”
She eases into my office, still a little unsure of being in here.
“You’re always welcome, Viv. We’ve been over this.”
“I know. I’m just getting used to it.” She sits on my lap.
I turn her so she’s facing me, her legs on either side as she straddles me. Her cheeks tinge a sweet pink as I stare into her eyes. “I promise, you don’t have to be nervous about dinner.”
“It’s not that.” She sighs. “Well, yes, it is that. But I have a question, and I’m worried you’re going to say no.”
“When have I ever told you no?” I grip her hips and pull her forward so she can feel what she does to me.
She bites her lower lip when she feels how hard I am for her. “You don’t, um. You don’t tell me no. But this is kind of a big question.” She moves her hips just a little, chasing sensation by rubbing her clit against me. My greedy girl.
“Ask, and I’ll see what I can do.” I run my hands higher, under her top. No bra. I smirk, then cup her breasts, holding them and running my thumbs over her hard nipples.
“Griff,” she says breathily.
“I know what you like, Vivian. I’ve learned you. I never want to stop learning you.” I twist her nipples, and her hips jerk.
My cock demands to be inside her, but I have to slow down. I won’t spook her. She’s young, she just lost her parents, and she’s completely under my control. No matter how much that last fact turns me on, I have to put her needs first.
She grips my shoulders, her back arching as she rubs against me.
“Get what you need, beautiful.” I drop my head and suck one nipple into my mouth.
She moans, her hips moving faster, sending a buzz through my cock. Fuck, I could come just from this, from her dry humping me as she moans my name.
“I shouldn’t–” She gasps. “This is–” A moan cuts through her words, and she moves more frantically as she comes.
I take her mouth, drinking down her cries as her body rolls against me, getting ever last crumb of pleasure she can find. I want her to have it, all of it.
When she finally pulls back and takes a breath, her pupils are blown, her skin flushed. “Griff.” She rests her forehead on my chest and takes another deep breath. “I just dry-humped you with your office door wide open.”
“Good.” I kiss her crown. “I want everyone to know who you belong to.”
She sits up, her gaze on mine.
“Now.” I squeeze her ass. “Ask me your big question.”
“Can I …” She rolls her shoulders, then gives me an almost stern look.
This must be serious.
“Can I please keep Mama and the kittens?”
“Yes.” I cock my head to the side. “Aren’t you already doing that?”
“I mean, like, forever. Can they stay here with me?”
God, she was worried about asking me that? What did her parents and that boarding school do to her?
“Of course they can.” I kiss her again. As long as you stay here with me forever.
16
VIVIAN
My breath catches. Does he mean what I think he does? Is he suggesting that I’ll be staying past the guardianship?
“Are you agreeing? You’ll stay forever.” He traces my lips with his finger. I can’t help but lick my lips. When my tongue grazes his thumb, his eyes flare with desire.
“You mean like past the guardianship?”
“I don’t give a shit about the guardianship. I want you here because I need you. Do you want to be here?”
“Yes,” I say without hesitation.
At first I thought it would be better if I went with my brother, but as much as I’ve tried to have a relationship with him, we can never seem to connect. I thought he was all I had left in the world, but now I have Griff. And there is nowhere else I’d rather be than here with him. Especially with him saying he needs me to be with him. No one has ever needed me before.
“That’s my girl.” He pulls me in for a kiss. He takes his time, kissing me thoroughly until I’m rubbing myself against him again, desperate for another release. This time I want more, but Griff never takes it further. Now that I think about it, he did just say that he would give me anything I asked for. Maybe that’s what he’s waiting for. Could it be as simple as that? There’s only one way to find out.