When I confirmed, she nibbled on her bottom lip but said nothing.“Tell me, baby.”
“Can I ask you...can I say something?”
“Always.”
She shifted back and pushed off her knees.I tightened my hold on her to keep her where she belonged.“Whatever you need to say, you do it right here.”
Tension tightened her shoulders.With my fingers under her chin, I leveled her worried gaze to mine.
“Sienna baby, I’m listening.”
After a deep breath, she said, “I’ve been wondering if...”She sighed.“You’re doing a lot for me.I mean a lot more than...”She paused again.“I think the real Jake Rhodes is the man who cares about our planet and uses his wealth to make it better.He’s also the man who protected Bianca and Camila, and who’s earned the friendship and loyalty of three wonderful people.”
I didn’t know how much I needed to hear that.But she wasn’t done.
“So, this man, who bought me expensive furniture for an apartment I won’t stay in is also a man I think would stay in a sexual-but-not-really relationship with me because he’s feeling remorse—”
She was fucking adorable.I couldn’t help it.I laughed.
****
Sienna
I bolted out of his lap, and raced toward—
Jake’s arms clamped tight around me, plastering my back against his chest.Not freaking again.
“Let go of me,” I hissed.
He immediately freed me, and I stumbled when my feet hit the ground.I was instantly swung around and drawn chest to chest against him.I glared, but what I saw in his eyes deflated all my anger.I couldn’t tell what it was, but it made me want to hug him.
He locked his stormy gaze onto mine and watched me for long seconds before his bass voice vibrated between us.
“I keep forgetting how innocent you are.”The pad of his thumb grazed my cheekbone. “Baby, I wasn’t laughing at you.Guilt can do a lot of things to a man but not make him hard.”His gaze heated.“If you fucking knew what I want to do to you, you’d run scared.”
The shiver that warmed my skin had nothing to do with fear.But I didn’t know what to say, so I just stared at him.
“Here’s my kitten,” he growled.
Then his mouth captured mine.The kiss was hard.So was his penis, prodding against my belly.
When I leaned back to catch my breath, he brushed his nose on mine.“You had coffee and half a piece of toast this morning.I’m going to order some food.I know one of the best taco places in the city.”
I grinned.“Can I please have fish tacos?”
His lips twitched.“You can have anything you want, baby.”
As he was about to reach for his cell, I tightened my arms around him.“Would you like to try my new bed with me after lunch?”
In response, he meshed my body with his.Our kiss was so explicit, I heard myself moan in his mouth.
****
Jake
She was sound asleep with her warm curves draped over me.I had shit to do, but I couldn’t make myself leave.
My cell vibrated, and I tagged it before it woke her up.It was a text from Zook.