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Her lips.
Her tongue.
The sound of her moaning the second my hands glided to her tits.
But once I was only a hair’s breadth away from her mouth, her fingers went on top of mine and she squeezed, stopping me from coming any closer.
“I don’t want any of those things, Grayson.”
“What the fuck do you want then?”
She leaned her neck back, presumably to see a wider angle of my face. “I want a man who’s going to lift me over puddles. And a man who’s going to order me an entire platter of desserts in my favorite flavor. And a man who’s going to take my dad to a Red Sox game because my family is as important to him as they are to me.” She pulled my hands off her cheeks and slid down from the table, moving away from me until she was at the head, taking the chair where I’d previously been sitting. “Send Laura in on your way out. I’ll finish this meeting without you. And if I decide to move forward and sign, she’ll let you know.”
Jovana was now suddenly in charge?
While I stood here with a throbbing hard-on?
I didn’t think.
“I’m not leaving—”
“Either you leave or I do,” she said. “The decision is yours.”
There was no decision.
Jovana knew that.
And she fucking loved it.
If I were as childish as she was, I would have flipped her off on my way out.
But I wouldn’t give her that satisfaction ... even though she knew she’d already won.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Jovana
“Because I refuse to drink alone,” I said to Sloane as I walked toward our couch, handing her a beer from the twelve-pack I’d bought on my way home.
“Girl, you never have to convince me to drink, you know this.” She took the bottle from my hand and clinked it against mine. “Isn’t this a rare sighting—both of us home, on a Friday night. Can the bar even operate without one of us there?”
I sat down beside her and dropped my feet onto the ottoman, sighing. “Probably not, and at this moment I could care less. Everything hurts, even my eyes. I need a break.”
“Same.” She turned toward me. “But you do have this smile on your face that I noticed when you got home this afternoon.” She nudged my calf with her foot. “What’s that about?”
I rolled my head until I was facing her. “What, I’m not allowed to be happy?”
She laughed. “You’re like a golden retriever. You’re always happy and something is always wagging on your body. But today, you just seem the happiest. So, spill it.”
She wouldn’t have thought the same if she had seen my face the morning after my meeting with Laura and Grayson. But two days had passed since my talk with them. That gave me enough time to process the details and the contract. To really consider what they were asking of me.
To wrap my head around marrying Grayson Tanner.
Maybe I was making the worst decision of my entire life.
Maybe I was doing this for all the wrong reasons.
Maybe I was completely nuts to be confident enough to think that somewhere, deep down, Grayson had feelings for me, and it would just take time and patience for those feelings to surface.
