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“Do I?” She breathes softly as my finger reaches her lips. She’s always so skittish. And if I’m being truthful, I like the challenge. I like the chase.

And I like to win.Always.

She flicks my finger with her tongue and I groan.

“You’re mine,” I tell her. “That’s what it is.”

She sucks me in and I’m gone. I pull my hand away and grab her hips, hitching her up until she’s straddling me. “These lips,” I say, sitting up and brushing her mouth with my own. “Mine.”

I kiss down her throat and her chest, to the swell of her breasts. “These are mine, too.”

And I pull her into my favorite position. Thighs pressed against my cheeks, her hands braced against the headboard.

“And this?” I mutter. “Mine too.” I slide my tongue along her seam, and she clenches her thighs.

“Eli…”

“Shut up and let me eat my breakfast.”

And for once – to my surprise – she does.

CHAPTERTWENTY

MACKENZIE

Eli’s brother lives in a beautiful old house on the outskirts of Charleston. It has a touch of old-world glamor to it. If I wasn’t sitting in Eli’s Mercedes right now, the heat blasting because he noticed I was shivering and he’s actually quite the gentleman, I could pretend I was in a horse drawn carriage with my Victorian suitor, ready to meet his parents.

Although I don’t think that’s how it happened in those days. Didn’t men and women have chaperones whenever they were together? I try to imagine that now. Eli constantly cockblocked by a knowing older woman.

“What are you smiling at?” he asks me.

“Just admiring your brother’s house.”

“Yeah, it’s nice. Liam lived in the guest house for a while. We’d stay there whenever we visited. It was likePorky’sbut so much worse.”

“Porkys?” I say. “What’s that?”

“You haven’t seenPorky’s?”

I shake my head.

“Probably for the best,” he says. “It’d put you off guys for good.”

He pulls in next to a huge black BMW and shuts off the engine. “We should agree on a signal,” he says.

“What for?”

“In case you want to leave. Like a codeword.”

“How about, Eli, I need to leave?”

He laughs. “That would work.”

“But I’m sure it’ll be fine. I’m excited to meet your family.”

He looks at me with warm eyes. “You’ve been warned.”

As soon as we’re in sight of the front door, it flings open and two younger men come out.

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