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I let her go and rushed to get a warm wet towel to clean her. I found it and returned quickly. She sat up and let me clean her.
Once I finished scrubbing her, I dropped the cloth and held her tight.
She fell back to sleep in my arms. My mind raced, and I wished I knew a better way to see if she cared about Bradley and me. I’d thrown it out there to buy her loyalty, but the question burned in my mind.Would she want me without money?I couldn’t sleep as I sorted out my thoughts.
As birds chirped outside the window, I figured if I took my money out of the equation, I would see how she reacted. If she loved me for me, then little luxuries didn’t matter, at least until after the wedding.
As she woke, I kissed her forehead and said, “So go and get yourself a wedding dress fit for the backyard.”
She blinked, as if she was still trying to wake up, then nodded at me and said, “Okay.”
“Great. I’m heading to the hospital, but I had your car fixed, and the car I bought for you is in the driveway.”
She winced like I’d hurt her, and my chest felt hollow at the sight, though she said, “Good.”
I’d been right. My heart wasn’t on the line. She was staying for the cash, not grandiose visions of love.
She dressed and headed to the door as I grabbed my hospital badge.
When she was in the hall, I called, “Before you go, there is one more thing.”
She held the doorframe and said, “I should go see Bradley.”
I uncurled her fingers then held her closer to me, so we shared the same air. “In a minute.”
She glanced up, though her eyelashes lowered as if waiting for me to kiss her. “What?”
“This,” I said and granted her wish. Her lips were tasty, as sweet as she’d always seemed. I reached under her shirt and squeezed her breast.
She shook her head lightly and squeezed my hips. “Johnny.”
I swallowed then whispered into her ear, “I’m addicted to your body, Olivia.”
She sighed and gave me more access to her neck. “Yeah?”
I sucked her sweet skin, which I needed more than water, and my cock grew hard again. “I need you more than twice a week.”
She hugged me and said, “I thought that was just a minimum.”
Fuck yes.She was good and letting me have her. Sex was sweet and all either of us would need. Hearts got in the way.
Chapter Fourteen
Johnny
I’m an asshole.
I returned home because I needed to stop my plan. If she ended up hating me, then I only had myself to blame. I’d reminded her about her own car, and it seemed she took the hint.
Fuck.The staff said she’d taken her twenty-year-old car to shop for a dress. I hadn’t realized she’d made plans for Bradley to join her. My son wasn’t stupid. He would suspect me and hate me too.
If Olivia had agreed to marry me to enjoy all the benefits of being a Dawes, then I wasn’t risking believing in the impossible.
I pressed my fingers to my temples as I descended the steps. I needed to go be a doctor. I’d delayed too long.
But as I slipped into the leather seats of my Mercedes, I realized my chest was constricted. I wasn’t in pain, but I realized there was no point in testing Olivia. Love wasn’t something I’d thought possible in my life, anyhow.
I hoped the hospital would distract me. When I was halfway there, my father called.
