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“Does it still hurt?”
“Not as raw now as it was in the beginning. I still miss them, wish I could pick up the phone and hear my mom’s voice or my dad’s laugh. I took it for granted that they’d always be there for me. You don’t appreciate what you’ve lost until you don’t have it anymore.”
She stood. He figured she was going inside.
“Sit back in the chair.”
He did, and she shocked the hell out of him by climbing in the chair with him. The chaises were oversized and could easily fit two, but God, he hadn’t expected this, hadn’t expected her to snuggle her body against his and lay her head on his chest.
He was afraid to touch her, but when she pulled his arm around her and she moved in even closer, he gave up trying to figure out what the hell was going on and just went with it. He tugged her in.
“Thank you,” she said. “I know that wasn’t easy for you to tell me, and I appreciate you sharing a little piece of who you are.”
“It’s okay.”
“Do you ever talk about it?”
“Not really. No one to talk to.”
She tilted her head back. “No other family, friends, girlfriends or anything?”
He smiled down at her. “No family. Guys don’t open up to each other about shit like that. And I don’t have girlfriends.”
She gave him a dubious look. “I’m sure you’ve had girlfriends before.”
“I’ve had women in my life before. No one I’d consider a girlfriend and no one I’d want to talk to about this. My lifestyle hasn’t been conducive to anything long term.”
“I guess that makes sense. Hard to establish a relationship when you’re moving around all the time.”
She smoothed her hand over his chest. Jed gritted his teeth, trying to remember she was just making conversation and offering comfort. His dick wanted a whole different kind of comfort, which it wasn’t going to get. He hoped she wouldn’t notice.
“Do you ever want to settle down and raise a family?”
“I guess. Someday.”
“What will you do then? Get a job as an in-town bodyguard or something?”
He laughed. “I’ve never given it any thought. I’ve been pretty much living for the moment the last ten years or so, not thinking of the marriage-and-family thing.”
She swept her hand over his shoulder, down his chest and across his stomach. God help him, this was torment. The soft hand of a woman over his stomach, knowing that if her fingers crept just a little lower and she’d hit the jackpot? Yeah, that was torture.
“You’re getting hard, Jed.”
“I was kind of hoping you wouldn’t notice.”
“Kind of difficult not to. It’s rather obvious.”
“Is this because you feel sorry for me? Because of my parents?”
She paused, lifted herself up and stared at him for a few seconds.
“No. It’s you I want. Did you feel sorry for me because of my mother?”
He pulled her down on top of him and tangled his fingers in her hair. “I never once thought about your mother when I was making love to you. The only person I thought about then was you.”
He put his lips on hers, tasting her. He’d missed her flavor, the feel of her mouth against his. After last night, he wanted more. Maybe they didn’t have anything beyond just this assignment, but he didn’t care. He’d only had a brief taste of her and he wasn’t nearly done with her yet. He slid his tongue between her teeth and deepened the kiss, waiting for her to pull away.
She didn’t, instead walked her fingers south and rested them on the top of his board shorts, right where his cock was about to burst through the material and leap into her hand.
