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“Nope. His skinny, blonde, very sexy mistress showed up with theirfour-year-old son.”
Everything about Andi is starting to make a little more sense. The way she seems to be a bit wary of me at times. The way she always assumes the worst instead of hoping for the best.
Honestly, I have no idea what to say to her except to call that dead husband of hers a million nasty names, but I don’t know that it would make her feel any better. Instead, I wrap my arms around her, holding her close to me.
“I’m so sorry that happened to you,” I whisper.
“It is what it is. I don’t consider myself a weak person by any means, but I just couldn’t stay there. Everything in that life was built around him and our relationship, and I just couldn’t do it anymore. I needed a fresh start.”
“So, why Grady?” I ask. “Not that I’m complaining.”
“You’ll laugh at me,” she says.
“Never.”
“I picked a state out of a hat. Tennessee was the lucky winner. I got online and looked for a place to stay. When I saw the name Grady, I was intrigued. Grady is actually my maiden name.”
“Wow, what a weird coincidence. I don’t think that sounds crazy at all. I think it takes an awful lot of guts to start your life over like that.”
“I’m not sure that I would call it ‘starting over.’ More like just starting on Act Two. And hopefully, Act Two is a whole hell of a lot better than Act One,” she says with a chuckle.
“I think I can help with that.” I wrap my arms around her tighter. “Thank you for telling me.”
She shifts her body so that she turns all the way around and is facing me. “Thank you for listening and not thinking I’m a complete loser.”
She chokes on the last word as a single tear rolls down her cheek. My hands touch either side of her face, my thumb wiping away the tiny droplet.
“Of course, beautiful. You can tell me anything.”
“I don’t know why Jonas, but you make me feel so comfortable. I feel like I’ve known you for years. You don’t understand how rare that is for me.”
Her hands mimic mine and reach up to touch my face. Leaning closer, she presses her lips against mine. It starts slow, and I let her set the pace.
My hands trail down to rest on her low back. She pulls me further into the kiss, pulling us both into the oblivion of need for one another. When our tongues begin to swirl, so does my head.
My hands dig into her hips, desperate to pull her as close to me as possible. Without needing any more convincing, Andi pulls herself up, so she is straddling me. Never breaking our kiss, she wraps her arms around my neck.
Pulling back a little, I take a moment to just look at her. Her full lips are red and swollen from our kiss, and she gazes at me through hooded lashes.
“Beautiful,” I whisper, pushing the few stray curls away from her eyes.
I pull her towards me, once more kissing her. This time, it’s deeper and needier. She moans into my mouth, and I can feel my dick getting harder. She must notice because she grinds her hips against me.
My hands reach up to cup her generous breasts in my palm. My thumb flicks over her nipple, and it hardens beneath my touch.
“Jonas,” she moans.
“Fuuuuck,” I groan as she trails kisses down my neck. “Okay, baby, as much as I want this to continue, I don’t think us doing it on this dock is going to be very comfortable. If you let me, I want to take you to bed.”
She nods and quickly stands up off me. “Let’s go.”
Chapter Fifteen
Andi
Our walk back to the house can’t come to an end soon enough. My body is practically quivering with the need to finish what we started. I’m not sure exactly what’s come over me. I’m usually not so brazen, but damnit, I don’t know that I have ever needed anything more.
There’s a fire in my belly that the sexy-as-hell Jonas Mitchell can only put out. I can’t deny that my body comes to life like it never has before when we kiss.
