Page 20 of Bodyguard Wolf's Fated Mate
He grabbed my shoulders and prepared himself to lunge against me.
My two hands slapped against his chest to leave a temporary imprint of my fingers. "This is what I need in my life. You are the missing piece of the puzzle. Where have you been hiding yourself all of these years? It doesn't matter. You're here now and we can make up for the time we wasted being apart."
He used his thumbs to spread me open to witness the wet and hungry hole begging to be stuffed. The light in his eyes shone brightly. He moved toward me with a less-than-subtle nudge.
"Are you sure about this? I don't know if I can stop once we begin. This is your last chance to bow out gracefully. There will be no hard feelings. Have you listened to the little voice or is this a conscious decision on your part? I need to know before we go any further." Luke held his position.
I touched his face to get his undivided attention. "The will of the wolf is strong, but I know exactly what I'm doing. I feel like a born-again virgin. My first time wasn't magical. It was over too quickly and left me disappointed. I would like to strike that first time from the record books. Let's do it right."
He powered forward when the doorknob turned. Luke was too far gone to give a damn.
The excitement of getting caught in the act was doubled when my father walked in unannounced. He only had himself to blame for not knocking. This would teach him to show me a little bit of respect.
"I hope I'm not disturbing you. I just wanted to check in…" My father stood there completely stunned and shocked to see his little girl about to be deflowered for what he thought was the first time.
Luke was already in motion when my father came in at the most inopportune time.
CHAPTER 11
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LUKE
It wasn't a good idea to make the boss angry. Everything about the situation was complicated, but her father didn't know half of it. He saw what he saw and there was no taking it back.
Jasmine didn't seem afraid, but she was cautiously keeping her tongue while her father paced back and forth in front of the roaring fireplace. The logs crackled and embers floated up into the chimney.
Jules looked rather intimidating holding the fire poker, but he didn't know about the secret. One wrong move could easily be his last if he decided to act on his emotions by escalating into violence.
"Can I say something?" Jasmine asked with her father turning with a glaring gaze of disappointment and righteous indignation.
Jasmine raised her hands and sat back deeper into the leather upholstery. My place was next to her, but I didn't want to make anything worse. The best I could hope for was to be fired but that would leave Jasmine to fend for herself on the age of her maturity.
"I want to use this fork to poke out my eyes. A father should never see his daughter like that. Haven't you ever heard of some discretion? Maybe even locking the door would've prevented me from walking in to see that." Jules knelt by the fire without bothering to look at us.
It wasn't like I could defend our actions when there was nothing I could say to smooth things over. Sleeping with her was impulsive and a little reckless, considering we were like-minded in so many ways. It wasn't right, but it felt so damn good to release those sexual endorphins in a more constructive way than manually stimulating myself with my hand.
"I trusted you to protect her and this is the thanks I get. I'm wrestling with a lot of emotions at the moment. How can I in good conscience stand and smile when my daughter is sneaking around behind my back? She doesn't respect me enough to talk about these things before doing something that's going to reflect on me." He continued to prod at the fire to release its full potential until the light flickering from within illuminated the rest of the room.
I wasn't sure when it was safe to talk when he was obviously hell-bent on making us listen to his tirade. It was his right as her father to be upset, but this was as natural as breathing. He couldn't see her as a woman when she was still his little girl buzzing with girlish enthusiasm up and down on his knee gleefully screaming and shaking her fists in the air.
"There's been a lot of planning that went into the party. We can't just call it off because we have family drama. I want you to leave the two of us alone, Jasmine. Don't say another word. If you don't want to be removed from my will, then you'll do as I ask without question or delay," Jules fumed in a whisper.
The crickets outside put in their two cents worth. They were drawn to the light underneath the thin gauzy material of the white drapes.
Jasmine stood up and cinched her robe a little tighter than it already was. The white material was erotically formed to her body and barely went below her waist. There was something different about her. The girl I had protected was no longer innocent. She had stepped into womanhood with me guiding her every step of the way.
Jasmine brushed my shoulder on the way out.
The creaking of the stairs with every delicate footstep confirmed she was willing to let the boys have a frank discussion. It wasn't a conversation I wanted to have, but there was no avoiding the inevitable accusations and condemnation.
The soft click of her bedroom door gave me a license to stand up without shame to address the elephant in the room. "I know it looks bad, but I didn't set out to hurt you this way. We haven't known each other very long. I gave you my word to keep my eye on her. She is a desirable woman, deserving of your pride and respect, regardless of what you walked in on unannounced without even bothering to knock."
He glanced from the fire to me with his teeth bared. "Is that how you see this? That this is somehow my fault for checking in on my daughter before I retired for the evening. You have the unmitigated gall to stand there with a straight face and make it seem like you are the innocent party."
"I never said that. Don't put words into my mouth. My biggest pet peeve is people assuming the worst about me without knowing all the facts. I'm not perfect. I make mistakes like anybody else." I almost said I'm human, but that would've been contradicting the way I grew up on the fringes of society hidden within the shadows.
"God forbid that you could actually keep it in your pants. I bought your loyalty for an extremely high price. Counting on you was a mistake." He walked up and stood nose to nose with me.
