Total pages in book: 75
Estimated words: 71095 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 355(@200wpm)___ 284(@250wpm)___ 237(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 71095 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 355(@200wpm)___ 284(@250wpm)___ 237(@300wpm)
“How could she not know? It’s been all over the news.” Another thought hit me. What if Molly hadn’t left San Bernardino just to get away from Mom and her latest boyfriend du jour? What if she’d been trying to get away from me, too?
“Never mind. I’m done obsessing about it. Let’s just enjoy our evening.”
“You think she ran away from you, too.”
I blinked. Was he reading my thoughts now?
“No, no I don’t.” That was a little too much realism on a night when I wanted the fantasy.
“You do, and that’s okay, Maddie. You’re allowed to have feelings about this.”
“I don’t want to have feelings about this, Jamie. I want to find Molly, and I’ve spent more than a year searching for her. Only now, when I’m so close, did it even occur to me that maybe she just doesn’t want to be found. Not by me, anyway.”
“Look at me, Madds.” I shook my head, and he reached over and grabbed my chin to force my gaze to his. “Remember what she’s been through. She was almost certainly trafficked and everything that goes along with that. Maybe she’s embarrassed or ashamed. Maybe she doesn’t want you to see how she is right now. I saw Savannah when Charlie rescued her, and that shit wasn’t pretty.”
“So don’t give up?”
“I can’t tell you what to do, but the woman I know isn’t a quitter.”
“No? What is she?” My question was playful and flirtatious because, goddammit, this was a date, not a fucking therapy session.
“She’s strong and sexy,” he said and circled a thumb around my shoulder. “She’s tough as fucking nails, funny and sweet.” His fingertip slid across my collarbone in a slow, dragging, back and forth movement. “She’s hotter than she knows.”
“Wow. She’s all that? Sounds pretty amazing.”
I don’t think anyone in the world, not even Molly, thought all those great things about me. It was intoxicating. Like I mattered. For the first time in my life, I mattered to someone.
“She’s pretty fucking amazing, Maddie.”
I leaned in closer and brushed a whisper-soft kiss to his lips.
“I think you’re pretty fucking amazing, Jamie.” From there, the kiss spiraled out of control, and I was grateful for the private booth as his hand slid up my thigh and found my panties wet and my pussy swollen for him. Only for him.
I pulled back with a sleepy smile, my body on fire for what came next.
“How about you invite me back to your place for a nightcap?”
A deep chuckle sounded as his thumb circled my clit through my panties. “Hey Madds, after dinner, do you wanna come back to my place for a nightcap?”
“Mmm, I thought you’d never ask.”
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
Jameson
Maddie needed a distraction from thoughts of her sister abandoning her. And what better way than to lose herself in a few hours of carnal pleasure. Hell, I needed the same distraction, so once we got back to my place, I was happy to oblige.
She was hungry for it. For me, actually. And that was enough to make me hard as she pushed me down on the sofa, dark intent turning her light brown eyes the color of melted gold. If nothing else, the girl was determined to forget, to lose herself in a good fuck, and I was just as determined.
“You with me, Jamie?”
I nodded slowly and licked my lips, letting my gaze rake over her heaving chest because Maddie’s tits were a thing of beauty and tonight, she’d dressed up just for me. The blue dress had my fingers itching all night to peel it off so I could feast on her sweet body.
“Right here, Madds.”
“Good.” Determination transformed her features into something darker. Something erotic. Then she came closer and straddled my hips before she put her lips to mine. The kiss came slowly at first, like a timid little kitten, but as it went on, as Maddie explored, our kiss intensified and she began to grind on my cock. Hard and slow, every stroke making her breath catch, the sound making me hard and ready to fuck. She pulled back with a dark but playful smile. “Jamie.”
“Right here, Madds.”
She wiggled again. “Yes, yes you are.” She moaned when my hips thrust up, bringing the hard length of my cock up against the thin layer of panty covering her pussy. “A lot,” she repeated and slid off my lap and down to the floor, between my legs.
Holy fucking shit, was she about to suck me off? “Maddie.”
Her hands went to the waistband of my slacks and her gaze met mine.
“Yeah, that’s my name. Only I want to hear you growl it.” She smacked my hips and I lifted them so she could yank down my pants and my boxer briefs. “Damn, that’s a pretty cock.”
“Pretty?” The word came out with a strangled groan as her soft hands gripped my cock and squeezed.