For the next two weeks, when he wasn't busy dealing with his business, they were together. He'd sit on the couch on his own laptop while she wrote, making sure she took breaks to eat or go outside to enjoy the sun. They'd been able to avoid the asshole and his twat in all that time even though they went into town a few mornings to have breakfast and then again for dinner. She was smiling more these days, too, and their make-out sessions had gone from mere kisses to some heavy as fuck petting that always left him hungry. The house closing was coming up soon, and she still didn't know that he'd bought her favorite house. He'd taken her back there one day when she complained of being in a slump with her writing. It had perked her right up. There was only one hitch in his stride when he had to make a quick trip back home for an overnight run. It had been hell. He felt like a bitch all the way there on the plane and called her as soon as he'd landed. He was a maniac at the office,
She wasn't stupid. She'd been studying him as much as he was her. She knew he wasn't spending all that time with her for nothing, but before she gave into her body's needs, she needed to be sure that she wouldn't be crushed when it was all said and done. She was close to making up her mind to just go to bed with him if he ever got around to asking. But she wanted to be sure that she would be able to pick up the pieces once he left. "Say hi for me too." She had no idea he'd told his parents about her, he tended to be very tight-lipped about such things, but that was another little morsel to tuck away in her keepsake box - the one she was building in her heart. He hated that for even one second; she'd felt what she just had. It was his aim never to give her a moment's pain; that's why he'd been taking it slow. He had no idea when she was going to be ready, but he knew he wasn't going to be able to hold himself in check for much longer. Not if she kept lighting up like that each tim
Kyle rushed through his morning meetings and tidied up some stuff so that he wouldn't have to be back for a long time. He couldn't wait to get back to his little pain in the ass, princess. He touched his inside jacket pocket to make sure the box from Harry Winston was there and patted the packages on the seat next to him. She'd probably be pissed that he'd had the ring designed and rushed even before he knew he had to fly out; she'd see it as him planning her life. Which, in fact, he was. If he waited for her to make up her damn mind, he'd be as old as gramps. No, this involved him too; this was his future; she was his future. No way was he going to let her ex-husband and his shit fuck that up for him. He'd decided last night after they hung up that he wasn't going to play the game the same once he got back there. Maybe it was his fault that he'd leashed himself thinking that she needed that, but that might've been wrong. She'd already had one pansy-ass bitch for a husband; what
The plane had landed less than twenty minutes ago. As soon as his feet hit the tarmac, his hunger to lay eyes on her had hit hard. He knew where they were when he didn't find them at any of their homes, but by the time he pulled into the parking lot, he was going nuts. Meanwhile, Kerry was getting her first look at him in something other than his usual uniform of jeans and tee and have mercy. If she thought he was hot before, words could not describe what the man did to a well-cut suit. She'd heard women tease about drooling over a man before, but this was the first time she'd had the real experience herself. "You're staring." He had that slight smirk slash grin thing going, and she could see just the tip of his tongue hidden behind his lips, and every thought went right out of her head. "Sorry, I don't mean to." Get a grip, Kerryanne, geez. She was having very unwholesome thoughts. Like maybe slipping that tie from around his neck and pushing his shirt off his nicely muscled sh
"We'd better stop, baby, before I take you right here." He eased her off his lap and fixed his leaking cock in his pants. His suit jacket and tie had been long discarded and the first three buttons of his shirt undone. Her nails had left trails on his flesh where she'd gored him in her need, but he didn't feel the sting; in fact, he couldn't wait 'til she did it again. Only next time, he wanted to be buried deep inside her. Kerryanne fixed her clothes back into place and looked anywhere but at him. Now that his mouth wasn't on her, it all came rushing back when he pulled her forward and planted his face right over that place where she was wet and inhaled deeply. She wanted to sink through the floor. "Stop that. I like that I make you want me. I like your scent." "Oh heck." She tried pulling away, but he held on, his hands digging into her ass as he held her in place. "I can't wait to get my tongue inside you." He was trying to kill her. If mere words could make her go up in flame
Kyle was deceptively laid back as he perused the room while they waited for their orders. He'd timed it well, as well as he could anyway. The town went to sleep relatively early, so he knew that his prey would be here in a little while. He wanted her to have some food in her before they showed up because he was sure they wouldn't be here much longer after he did what he had to do. He'd collected as much info as he could, so he had a pretty good handle on their movements. "When we're done here, how about some pool?" He gestured towards the back with his head as he picked up his wine glass. She looked back at the room a bit skeptically. "I've never played before." "There's always a first-time sweetheart." "You'd teach me?" "Of course, who else?" She didn't say anything. Billiards was another one of those things that Paul loved to do and excelled at but had never had the time to teach her. It was one of the reasons he liked this place so much because it allowed him to pl
Kyle was playing a hunch, but he was pretty sure he had read the situation right. He'd listened to all the little snippets in the last few weeks and learned something his girl hadn't picked up on. Maybe she was too close to the situation to see what was right in front of her face, but others hadn't missed it. He made his way slowly to the restroom, giving her time to make her excuses and make her way towards him. The place was set up just right for such a scenario, and he knew he was right on the money when he felt the hand on his arm. It took all his upbringing not to turn on her with a snarl. He couldn't come up swinging, not if he wanted the results he was after. The other day on the sidewalk, he hadn't really had time to study the woman who had, in all essence, cleared the way for him to find what he was beginning to think was the best thing that had ever happened to him. But now, here under the glaring lights of the hallway with people paying way too much attention to the
"What we want is to know just what lies she's been filling your head with. She's obviously given you some sad story; why else would you be speaking to us like this?" He ignored her since he already had her pegged. It was the husband he wanted to show his underbelly so that Kerryanne could finally open her fucking eyes and see what a weak fuck he was so that they could get on with their fucking lives. "Yes, Kerry, just what lies have you been telling everyone that they're now looking at us as if we were animals? People do get divorced; you know, it's not the end of the world. And there are as usual two sides to every story." Kyle noticed that he was only brave once his wife opened the doorway for him. Like he was the puppet, and she pulled the strings. "I didn't say you could address her, did I?" Let's see what the ass did with that. Fucking little boy who didn't know his head from his ass. He really couldn't believe that this was what he'd felt threatened by. As he stood ther