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The honesty just kept on flowing, “Well, I wouldn’t say never. You see, I think you just might have it all,Brooke.”
She blushed and had to look away. “Gannon.”
I had to save myself. “The guy who gets you will have more than just your brother to answer to. You’re my number one girl, so he’ll have to answer to me too. I don’t envy the poorsoul.”
Her eyes cut back to me. “I’m your number one girl. What does that mean,exactly?”
My smile was crooked, I could feel it. “You can figure that out, I’msure.”
I moved on, pushing the stroller and feeling good about what I’d told her. A bit of how I was feeling about her was out there. Not enough to get my ass handed to me by her older brother, but just enough to let her know I thought a hell of a lot about her. It wasn’t a crime.Right?
Chapter12
Brooke
The tripto the zoo was fantastic. The dinner together later that evening was, too, as Braiden had his first ever pizza. Then we gave him a bath together, to deal with all the tomato sauce and cheese, and got soaked. Finally, Gannon read a bedtime story to Braiden and made me sit on the other side of the bed as he read. He told me he wanted me to be a part of this with his sontoo.
Part of me knew it wasn’t the right thing to do, and that Braiden and I both might get hurt when Gannon finally met some woman he wanted to marry. Then she’d be the boy’smother.
Even though that stayed in the back of my mind most of the time, I couldn’t help what was happening between the poor little boy whose mother abandoned him and me. I loved him, and he loved me. It was simple, and there was no way to stop it fromhappening.
And what I was feeling for Gannon was just the opposite. I knew it was wrong. I knew I had to stop it. And it was far from simple. No, it was the most complex situation I’d ever beenin.
I was falling hard for a man who was ten years older than me. And the fact that he was a bad-boy womanizing man who was used to getting what he wanted didn’t make things any better. When you added in the fact my brother would kill us both, you had a recipe fordisaster.
So I knew I had to keep my thoughts to myself and try to keep Gannon from catching me when I looked his gorgeous body up and down. And most of all, I had to try hard not to let any of the staff see me drooling over the man who was ourboss.
After Braiden had fallen asleep that night, after the long day at the zoo, Gannon and I stepped out of his bedroom and into the hallway. There was the adjoining door between my bedroom and Braiden’s, but I wanted to walk out with Gannon—walk by his side just one more time before I went tobed.
“Did you have fun today, Brooke?” He stopped after closing the door and leaned up against thewall.
Why does he always have to look so damnhot?
“Yes, I did. Thank you for taking me with you guys. Did you have fun too?” I leaned up against the wall opposite him, folding my arms in front ofme.
His eyes sparkled as he nodded. “I did have fun. More fun than I ever remember having. And I want to do this all weekend. What do you say? Think you can handle all this fun I’m dishingout?”
Oh, the things I’d love to try tohandle…
“I’ll try to keep up with you.” Rolling my shoulders, I moved off the wall and headed toward my bedroom—the one that was just right across the hallway fromhis.
He caught up to me, his shoulder barely brushing mine as he walked next to me. “Night, then. See you atbreakfast.”
“Night.” I went into my room and closed the door, leaning against it, sighing, and wishing like hell things could just be simple andeasy.
As I went through the drawer with my nightclothes in it, I spied something I didn’t realize I had taken from the dorm in the small box of feminine toiletries I’dpacked.
In a brand-new package, unused, there was a pink vibrator. My college roomie had gifted it to me when I moved out of the dorm, teasing me that I might find it handy, living with someone as hot asGannon.
As I pulled it out of the box that was pushed into the far back corner of my nighty drawer, I felt my stomach tighten. My inner thighs pulsed and I went dampinside.
“Hmm.” I walked from one of the bedroom doors to the other, making sure they were both locked. Then I went to my bed and tossed the package on it. Undressing, I kept looking at thething.
Stripping all the way down, I got under my blanket and took the long pink thing out of the package. Pushing down on the end, I found it buzzed to life and was even gettingwarm.
“Okay, here we go then.” I pressed the tip of it to my pussy and found my eyes closing all on their own. “Oh, yeah. I can see why people like these thingsnow.”
Moving it around, I pretended it was Gannon’s mouth on me down there. I moved it through my folds, up and down the slit, and pressed it to my sensitive nub. “Oh,yeah!”
