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But Olivia had had enough. “Where are my shoes?”
“I forgot them outside.”
She could get those herself.
She checked her pocket for her car keys and left the room, leaving him to watch her run out to the car and drive off toward home.
Chapter 9
JAKE
She’llchangehermind.
The thought seemed to echo through my mind all night and into the next day, almost as if someone else was saying it to me rather than coming from my thoughts.
I hated that I was still thinking about it at all. I shouldn’t have been. I wanted to put all thoughts of her aside and go on. I mean, since what difference did it make if Olivia Montgomery didn’t want to sleep with me again?
I wasn’t about to waste my time pining over the attentions of one woman, and I would never let one woman’s opinion make or break me. There were plenty of other fishes in the sea. If she didn’t want me, I didn’t need her.
I thought that right up until I woke up from a dream in which I’d been fucking her up against the wall of my shower.
In the dream, we had been pressed close together, my body pinning hers up against the wall to keep her from falling over, her arms wrapped around my neck, her lush breasts pressed against my chest, and her legs hooked over my hip.
I’d been fucking her slowly, sliding in and out of that tight heat, and she’d been gasping my name into my ear, and it was the thought of that—the sound of my name being panted into my ear as I’d fucked her—that had made me wake up hard.
I masturbated in the shower that morning, but it hadn’t been as pleasant as that dream, and I felt frustrated both by the lack of satisfaction and the prospect of her repeating the same old song and dance. Couldn’t she move past it and admit that she wanted me so that we could get down to the business of enjoying each other without spending the next week and a half pretending we weren’t going to?
She’d come around the first time. I was sure she would come around again. But I didn’t want to wait for it. I wanted hertoday.
It’s just because she’s so fucking hot. It doesn’t go any deeper than that.That was the only reason I wasn’t dealing with this by going off and finding someone else to bang.
No one else was quite going to scratch that itch that Olivia had left me with.
I shaved quickly after my shower and went downstairs, thinking that a good strong coffee would get all this off my mind. That usually did the trick.
But I was wrong. Danny was sitting at the breakfast table.
It stopped me in my tracks. It wasn’t usual for Danny to be up this early. He usually slept until noon. “What’s up?” I asked, trying to sound casual and not likeI fucked your sister in our front drive, and I’m trying to play it cool.
“Got an appointment,” Danny said.
“What kind of appointment? Is it about Branches? Should I be coming with you?”
“Nah, it’s about getting one of those doorbell devices that record what’s going on in front of your house,” Danny said. “I think we’ve had trespassers.”
“What do you mean?”
In response, Danny held up a belt.
Oh, holy fuck—it was my own belt, and I knew immediately what must have happened. But I had to play it cool.
“I found this out in the yard late last night,” Danny said. “I don’t know what to think.
I drew a breath and tried to sound casual. “Maybe someone is pranking us, sneaking onto the property.”
“Who the hell would do something like that?”
“Probably kids, daring each other to sneak up on the big mansions,” I said. “That’s something we would have done when we were younger.”
