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“Just kiss me,” I said again as I searched his eyes. “You’ve been staring at me, and we both know that you want to kiss me … I want you to kiss me, I … God what am I saying?”
I stopped before I said any more foolish things, and then I drew out a deep breath and shook my head. Jack also took a long breath, then he closed his eyes. I watched the droplets of water bounce off his long lashes, and I stared down at the shirt sticking to his wet skin.
How is the water so cold but yet I’m hot inside?
My cheeks were flushed, and it was like a tornado inside me. He had to feel all of this too, and the tingles made my nerves forget what they were supposed to do.
“It’s all right if you don’t want to,” I said in a tinier voice. Jack looked like he was struggling, though. I saw his jaw tighten, then he plastered both his hands on the sides of the wall to trap me in the middle. “It’s all right if you don’t want to kiss me again, Jack.”
“That’s the thing, Nina … I want to,” he answered, then inhaled deeply after lowering his head to the croon of my neck. “I want to every time.”
I could feel the prod of his erection against my stomach, and that made me wetter for him.
“I heard from … I overheard … the sheikh is dealing guns and there’s a deal going down in three days. Did you know? Do you usually do business with men like this? I mean they even mentioned you and …”
Jack kissed me again, cutting off my sentence, and then he began peeling my clothes off. I tried to stop him, but the urgency in his kiss and the desire coursing through me sparked flames.
This time, he ravaged my lips. His right hand moved into my hair, and he stroked my strands as he pressed me against him. I was shirtless now, and I felt him unclasp my bra. The second my breasts were freed, he dropped his lips down and started to kiss my nipples.
After another kiss and dance of our tongues, he was sliding the rest of my dress down my waist. I managed to stop him, and I pulled my dress back up so I could talk to him without wanting more of this madness.
Jack let me put on my dress, but after his deep breath, he took my lips again and began massaging my arms.
I moaned into his mouth, then continued to rock into him. Everything he made me feel was all-consuming, but I needed him to tell me what was going on, so I put my hands on his chest again and stopped him.
“Jack, tell me what’s going on,” I said again as he tried to take my lips for another kiss. “Jack …”
“Nina, please …” he said in a husky voice, and then he stopped trying to kiss me. I frowned and shook my head. “What is it you want to know? What do you want me to tell you?”
“You’re not surprised,” I whispered while staring at him with wide eyes. “I mean, I said the sheikh is dealing arms and you … you didn’t even bat a lash. Oh my God, Jack, what is really going on here? Did you know about what the sheikh is doing?”
“Tone it down,” he answered, but not in a harsh tone. He pulled away from me, turned off the shower, and he walked out of the bath with his body dripping wet.
“Jack,” I called, and followed him out of the bathroom. He walked past me again and returned to the bathroom. “Right, there’s a camera in the room. They’ve been spying on us, and you knew this? You didn’t bother to tell me? I mean we made love in this room and … he’s been watching us the entire time? Is that even legal?”
“Nina, what do you want me to tell you?” Jack interrupted. “The sheikh didn’t trust us, and he wants to know what we are up to, that’s all.”
“So, what are you up to, Jack?” I folded my hands across my chest. “What about the secret meetings after dinner? And the suspicious look that the shay kaha gives you every time. I want you to tell me what kind of deal you have going on with the sheikh.”
“That’s none of your concern, Nina. You don’t have to know everything.”
“Actually, I do, and it is my business,” I cut in. “I mean, Jack, you brought me out here to play your wife, so the least you can do is be honest with me.”
I raised both my hands in the air and waited for him to say something, but the look in his eyes told me all I needed to know.He knew about this, and he didn’t say a thing.
“Damn it, Jack, what are you entangled in?”
“You’re not my mother, and I don’t need you to try and clean up after me,” he answered, then tried to walk out of the bathroom again, but I pulled him back in.
“I’m paying you to do a job, Nina,” he said through gritted teeth. “Just do that and stop this.”
He walked out of the bathroom after that, and I followed him. Jack dried his hair with a towel. His clothes were still wet, and I could see the well-formed muscles of his back as he stood without looking at me.
What in God’s name is going on?
I didn’t know what Jack was doing here, and it was clear that he was hiding something. It was no longer the sparks between us that I was worried about.
Something’s going on here, and I have to find out what.
