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“I’m not talking about sex, Jade. I’m talking about hard. Brutal. Fucking. Do you understand the difference?” I crowded her space, coming within only a few inches before she backed away, but only by taking a single step. “I merely gave you a small taste on the plane.”
“What about at my house?”
After inhaling her fragrance once again, I cocked my head. “That was all about dominance. Nothing more. Now, answer me. Do you know the difference?”
“I’m certain you’ll explain it to me since you seem to know everything.”
Laughing, I studied her, my pulse racing. She had that kind of effect on me, which excited me more than I’d admit to anyone. “Fucking is raw and filthy, taking and giving from each other. It’s letting go, allowing your mind as well as your body to explore the dark hunger that furrows inside everyone, but so many are afraid to enjoy. Fucking is breathless and sweaty, angry and exciting. It’s when you can’t breathe unless you feel the heat of another erupting deep inside like a fire that can never be squelched.” My breathing was heavier than normal, my needs increasing exponentially.
She lifted her head, swallowing visibly, her eyes darting back and forth across mine. “What else?”
If she really believed she could challenge me without the beast devouring her, she had another think coming. My cock was pinched, discomfort becoming anguish. I resisted touching her, savoring every moment of indulging in the beginning of her full surrender.
“When two people fuck, they lose all sense of time. Nothing else matters but the hours of pleasure,” I half whispered.
“Hours? No man can go for that long.”
“I’m not just any man.”
She huffed, shaking her head, but her eyes left me. “No, you’re in a class all your own. Perhaps I should say classless.”
Now I gripped her throat, pulling her neck then jamming my thumb under her chin. “It would best serve you not to continue insulting me.” God, the woman’s fragrance had already made itself a permanent resident in my system. I could do nothing more than drink her in.
She defied me by rolling the backs of her fingers across my jaw, taking rasping breaths on purpose. “Making love is when two people can’t get enough of each other, longing to commit, to share in the joys and sorrows of everyday life. It’s when you can’t imagine being apart. It’s being able to remember every little thing about your partner, their likes and dislikes. Making love is sheer joy for the heart while fucking is nothing but satisfying temporary physical needs.”
It was as if a line had been drawn in the sand. I held her neck in my hand for at least thirty seconds before pulling her close. “Before there can be any hope of finding love, there has to be a connection that becomes irresistible.”
“I’ll agree.”
As soon as I heard my phone, I snarled. “Would you do me the favor of going inside? We can continue our discussion in a few minutes.”
“Business at two in the morning. Or it is four? I have no idea. You must be a very impressive leader.” She pulled away, heading inside immediately. I fisted my hand before yanking the phone from my pocket. What the hell was my father doing calling at this hour? As soon as I answered, he started barking.
“I told you to find a goddamn wife, but a fucking woman who could destroy us? Are you out of your mind?”
My father rarely minced words. “I think it’s brilliant. For whatever reason the prosecutor is in the mood to persecute me, he’ll have a tough time convincing a jury that I’m guilty. Especially since by the point they bring it to trial, she’ll be pregnant with my child.”
He took several raspy breaths. “You’re flirting with the kind of danger that could spell disaster but may have made a technically brilliant move. However, I’d be careful in how you handle her.”
“I have absolutely no intention of worrying about how I handle her, Pops. She already belongs to me.”
“You work fast.”
“I’m curious how you knew. Let me guess, Barrett was eavesdropping again.”
“You know there’s nothing I don’t find out about,” he retorted.
“Did you call me to harass me?”
“I called you to find out where the hell you are. There is far too much talk on the streets about the Grassos.”
“I’ll handle them when I return.”
“See that you do.” When he exhaled, I knew he had more on his mind. “You’re really going to have a child with this woman?”
“Don’t you remember her from the trial?”
“I was busy trying to hunt down the fucker who likely had something to do with the incident being witnessed in the first place.” It had been my father who’d raised the suggestion years ago.
