Page 48 of Faith

“You admit to wanting me as much as I want you.”

She pulled her bottom lip between her teeth. It was a gesture he hadn’t seen, except in the old clips of her skating days.

“Yes, but?—”

His phone rang, and he couldn’t ignore it. It was his mother and she would just call Nicola.

“This isn’t over.”

She nodded. Jensen swooped in for another kiss before he released her.

“You know you may not get your way,” she said.

He smiled over the term ‘may not’. “But what fun we will have during the process.”

“I did not say yes.”

“You also did not say no.”

The ringing on his phone stopped. A second later, Nicola’s phone started to ring.

“Call your mother. I am not in the mood.”

With that, she turned away from him and walked out the door. As he watched her disappear around the corner, he almost sighed. It wouldn’t be easy, but it was definitely going to be enjoyable.

* * *

Nicola foundthe rest of the day almost unbearable. They had work to do, and while she wanted to just roll up in a ball in bed, she had duties to attend to. The worst thing about it was that Jensen seemed completely unaffected about the earlier kiss. She couldn’t concentrate and found her mind wandering back to the way she felt afterwards. Men had come and gone, but even her first kiss hadn’t made her dizzy like the kiss from Jensen. Even as they went over figures and information about the Johnson family, she couldn’t keep from looking at his lips. She could just imagine them as he kissed down her spine…

She consciously pulled herself away from that image.

“I think you need to call Robert. He might not be running everything now, but he’s still the patriarch of the family. He will see it as a sign of respect.”

“Very important to Hawaiians,” he said, without looking up at her.

“If there is nothing else, I need to make some phone calls.

He glanced up over those stupid reading glasses. Dammit, her panties were already damp, and it was getting worse.

“Sure.”

As she walked out of his office, she felt his gaze burning into her back. She hurried up the stairs to her room. She closed the door and leaned against it. Closing her eyes, she told herself that it was because she hadn’t had a man in months—even though she knew it wasn’t true. No man had ever been able to make her forget the entire world around her. Even the best of Doms hadn’t been able to, and she had had a lot of them.

Her eyes shot open. Speaking of Doms, she grabbed her phone and called Micah.

He picked up on the second ring. “I was wondering when you were going to call me.”

“Really? Like maybe a heads up would have been nice.”

“I thought you two should work it out on your own.”

“No, this is about Doms sticking together.”

There was a pause.

“Nic, are you okay?”

“Of course.”

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