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He looks up at me, his eyes widening.
I’m used to this reaction, considering the number of hours I spend in the gym.
“You have a lot of muscles!” The boy points at my bulging biceps.
I grin, proudly. “You’ll get them too.” I wink at him. I’m a sucker for kids. Always have been. Sometimes, I think to myself that I would have made a great father. But then you always want what you don’t have.
“Max, where’d you run off to?”
A woman’s voice reaches my ears. It’s a throaty sound, sexy, and I look up to see a woman exiting a room and my mouth suddenly turns dry.
She’s tall and tanned with curls fr
aming her face. The circles under her eyes don’t deter me from her beauty. Voluptuous curves, breasts that can fit easily in my hands, a round and perky ass, and a slim waist.
She’s built like a goddess and I can do little more than stare at her.
She sees me too and her face turns dark, and her voice turns sharp and protective, “Max, come here.”
The boy trots off to her and she pushes him behind her, watching me warily. “You’re with him?”
When she gestures towards Caleb, I nod, unable to find my words.
“Max, go in the bedroom,” she orders, a fierce protectiveness emitting from her, and I have the urge to kiss those pouty lips. Her complexion is fair, a little flushed, perhaps, from whatever she’d been doing, but she’s one of those women who comes to you in a wet dream and drives you crazy.
“I’m Duke.” I hold out my hand.
She simply stares at it.
I wonder if she’s put off by the prison tattoos on my bare arms.
When she doesn’t say anything, I try again, this time a little desperately, “I’m Caleb’s friend.”
“Why is he here?” she asks, abruptly.
This isn’t a tone I usually hear when women are talking about Caleb and my lips twitch. “He wanted to help Kendall with carrying the bags up.”
She stares down at the bags. “Kendall bought all this?”
I nod.
She toes one of the bags with her bare foot.
I see there’s deep red nail polish on her toenails, a sexy color that drives me crazy. I stick my hands in my pockets, feeling both awkward and clumsy around this beautiful woman who’s watching me with a mixture of suspicion and wariness.
It’s been more than five years since I was freed from what was considered to be a life sentence. While I haven’t exactly been a monk, all the women who have graced my bed have been one night stands. And that is why I chose them to begin with, both parties just looking for a little fun.
Love isn’t for me.
It scarred me once and I lost everything because of it.
Which is why I cannot understand why Caleb has focused his everything on this one slip of a woman. She’s somewhat of a looker but despite their childhood link, it still seems like overkill. He could just as well have given her a stuffed bank account, some properties and called it even.
I glance over at where he’s talking to Kendall, their voices low, she’s wearing a tight expression on her face and I wonder what he’s saying to her.
“So, that’s Caleb Starr?” the woman before me asks.
I wonder if it would be easy to talk her into bed. And then I remember the grinning child who resembles her.
