Page 35 of His Baby Agenda


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He led the way to the path down to the beach. “Why did you agree to this date? Did you feel like I owed you one?”

She watched her steps and when they got to a flat stretch of sand she stopped and turned to look at him. “No. I felt like I owed myself something. Everything that happened between us made me afraid to date guys I really liked. Made me think maybe I’d end up alone again. I never understood that I was trapped in that. I’m not saying I know what the future holds for us. But I’m not going to keep pretending that I don’t want to be with you.”

Her words humbled him. He’d told her his sin. Told her the truth that he’d been hiding from the world—and hell, from himself—for too long. But tonight none of that seemed to matter.

The sound of the waves on the shore lulled them as they walked slowly down the beach. She didn’t speak and neither did he. He didn’t want to. He just let the night close around them.

The breeze brought the scent of her perfume and sometimes stirred the long strands of her hair so that they seemed to dance around her head.

“If you could have one thing, what would it be?” he asked.

He wanted to build a bridge between the past mistakes and the future he was beginning to realize he needed with her.

“I don’t know. I’ve never thought about it. I’m always busy looking at my next business goal or planning a family get-together with my mom. What about you?”

“I want the past cleared up,” he said. His focus on that account had never changed. Gabi had a life. She might think she had been hiding from relationships—and maybe she had been—but the rest of her life had gone on. And why shouldn’t it? She’d been a bystander in the Stacia matter. Not a real participant.

“I bet. As I said, I’d be happy to help you contact those women on the list,” she said.

“I...”

“Let me do this. I want more dates like this, King, and we both know that until you get some closure you’re not going to move forward.”

He hadn’t had anyone on his side with this except Hunter. Even Jade hadn’t wanted to know about it. She’d liked that other people thought he was dangerous. “Okay. But if I see any backlash toward you or your business, you stop.”

“Agreed,” Gabi said. She stopped walking and looked out at the sea. He stood there next to her.

She turned toward him, wrapping her arms around his shoulders as she went up on tiptoe and kissed him. It was a sensual kiss. The one he’d been craving all night.

Deepening the kiss, he put his hands on the small of her back and lifted her off her feet so that she was pressed along the front of his body. The night breeze stirred around them, wrapping her hair around his neck and shoulders.

He was surrounded by her. He wanted to be naked. To feel her pressed all over him and to be inside her.

He needed that. He lifted his head and switched his hold on her, carrying her back up the path to the house. She just kept her arms wrapped around him, her fingers toying with the hair at the back of his neck until he entered his bedroom and closed the door behind him.

He let her slide down his body until her feet touched the ground. Then he kissed her, taking his time because he knew he wasn’t leaving her again.

Ten

Gabi had often thought about that one night with Kingsley. But she didn’t want to tonight. She wanted tonight to be new and about the people they were today, not about the past.

She sighed.

“What is it?”

“I... I just want this to be good, you know?”

He cupped her face in his hands and tilted her head back so he could stare down into her eyes. There was something elusive in his gaze. Something she wanted to identify but couldn’t.

“It will be better than good,” he said, lowering his mouth to hers.

His kiss swept aside the doubts she had about the past. The fire that had slowly been building between them since he’d first walked into her office now blazed out of control.

He caressed his way down from her neck, his fingers tracing a pattern over her skin that made her feel alive in a way she hadn’t before. She sucked his lower lip into her mouth and pushed his jacket off his shoulders. His hands left hers as he shrugged out of it and he broke the kiss. His lips were wet and swollen from her kisses.

She watched him as he sauntered over to the closet to hang up his jacket. The light from the closet spilled out onto the floor and he turned to face her.

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