Total pages in book: 90
Estimated words: 84071 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 420(@200wpm)___ 336(@250wpm)___ 280(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 84071 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 420(@200wpm)___ 336(@250wpm)___ 280(@300wpm)
“A shotgun,” he echoes, and now I’m bursting out laughing.
“I mean, I’m from the South,” I start. “I don’t even think he’s that good of a shot.”
“That good of a shot,” he repeats the words.
“I mean, if anyone is a decent shot, it has to be Uncle Reed; he was with the Green Berets,” I fill him in. “And just because Granddad trained with the Navy SEALs doesn’t mean anything.”
“He’s a Navy SEAL?” he shrieks, and I have to roll my lips.
“No, he just trained with them for fun.”
“For fun?” His voice goes so loud.
“When he was younger, so it doesn’t even count.”
“Oh, it counts,” he declares. “Just my luck to start dating a woman whose whole family can shoot me in the ass.”
“The men, at least.” I tap the couch. “If you go next to my Aunt Chelsea, she’ll shoot your dick off.”
“Good to know,” he says. “Well, this relationship is starting off fun.”
“I think so.” I try to ignore the worry in his voice.
“By the way,” he says, “your new work time is nine o’clock.”
I sit up and snap, “No perks for dating you. No way.”
“Actually, it’s perks for the gala,” he points out. “Loren and I discussed it on Friday.”
“Well, I’m not going to say no to starting an hour later,” I say.
“Okay, I’m home,” he says softly. “See you tomorrow.”
“Good night,” I reply softly, hanging up the phone and setting it on the table. “I hope you know what you’re doing,” I tell myself, “because there is only one way this can possibly end.”
twenty
Caine
Pulling into the parking garage, I spot her SUV right away, and I can’t help but smile when I see she’s just gotten here. I pull into my reserved parking spot, rushing out of my car. I slam my door shut when I look over and see her walking from her car.
She’s wearing what looks to be loose blue pants and a tight white top with a white jacket. Her shoes are also a white color, the front open, but you know they are high as fuck. “Good morning,” I greet her, and she looks up. Her hair is over one shoulder.
“Hey,” she says, surprised I’m standing here. “Morning.” She tries to hide the sly smile, but I see it.
We walk to the elevator, our hands grazing each other. I look around the parking garage before I slide my hand in hers and pull her to the side of one of the pillars. I put my hand on the pillar above her head, my cock waking up even after I jerked myself off last night and this morning thinking about her. “Hi,” I say, bending my head toward hers. She meets my lips halfway, her tongue sliding into my mouth at the same time mine enters hers. The kiss is even better than yesterday’s make-out session on her couch, and that was in its own stratosphere. Her purse falls beside our feet as she wraps one arm around my neck and the other around my waist, pulling me to her. “Fuck,” I mutter when I finally let her go, “I missed kissing you.”
“Did you?” she replies, rubbing the lip gloss off my lips. “I couldn’t tell.”
“How about we don’t wear lip gloss in the morning?” I mention to her.
“I can’t walk into work without lip gloss.” She rolls her eyes, and the two of us stop moving when we hear a car door slam.
Her eyes go big as I step slowly and quietly away from her. She bends to pick up her purse and wipes her lips to make sure her lip gloss isn’t all over the place. The ding of the elevator rings, and then two seconds later, it’s just the two of us. “Well, that was fun,” I joke with her.
“It was the opposite of fun,” she hisses. “My heart was in my throat, and I thought I was going to throw up.”
“Maybe tomorrow we meet down the block and make out and then come to work,” I suggest as we walk toward the elevator.
“Oh, hot make-out with the boss before work.” She winks at me. “I think I like it.”
“Good,” I say as I press the elevator button.
“We can’t get in together,” she gasps.
“Why?” I ask her.
“Because you have this effect on me,” she says, and I look down at my dick.
“You have this effect on me also,” I note, and she pushes me away.
“You’re going to get in the next one.” She steps into the elevator and presses the button. “See you up there.” She holds her hand up, making me shake my head. I wait until the doors close before I press the button again.
The other door opens right away, so I get in and press the button to the floor. When I step out of the elevator, so does Grace, who looks at me with big eyes. “Morning.” I nod to her as I walk past her to my office, acknowledging a couple of people as I walk in. “No coffee today?” Kayla asks me when I walk past her desk, and I put my head back. “Guess you forgot it in the car.”