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And in this one moment, I feel myself falling for him all the more. Sure, I’m already halfway in love with him. Who am I kidding, I am in love with Maverick, but the more I see of him, it opens my eyes to just how much.
Most people would continue to make a big deal about my stomach, about the words written there, but he didn’t. Not with the others coming. He kept it to himself, even with the rage and fury swirling around him. Maverick pushed it all to the side so I wouldn’t be uncomfortable.
I smile and jump in on the action, deciding to play with them by reaching for the ball as Wrath starts to raise it. “I’ve got the ball,” I shout and start running.” Laughing. Behind me, I can hear their laughter and someone running behind me.
I glance back to find Maverick catching up, I spin and toss the ball back toward Pirate just before Maverick play tackles me into the sand. He rolls his body so he’s the one who lands on the bottom but proceeds to roll me under him.
Those eyes of his gleam in the sunlight, and he grins at me. “Got you,” he says and leans in, claiming my mouth with his.
The more he kisses me, the more I’m okay with it. However, I don’t know if I can go further. I want to. My body screams at me to go further. To give into the desire that is all Maverick.
Maverick keeps the moment short, but it’s enough to leave me breathless as I ask.
“What’s your name?”
“Vance,” he answers without hesitation. “No one calls me Vance anymore. Even the people who work for me and answer to me don’t when I give them the time of day. They don’t call me by anything but Maverick.”
I cock my head slightly and stare at him with a frown. “Work for you?”
“Yeah, those who work for me.” He sighs. “My family owned an oil company, and when they passed away, they left everything to me.”
“I’m sorry you lost all of your family,” I remark, seeing the glimmer of pain in his eyes at the mention of his family gone.
“Me too, Sweets, I miss them. They were great. Let me be who I needed to be and didn’t push. Though they always made it clear something happens to them, I’ll be taking the seat of the company.”
“But you don’t run the company,” I state, knowing there’s no way he could be running some oil company. He works at the club’s garage and helps out at other places.
“No, I don’t.” Maverick nods, rolls slightly, props himself up with one arm and keeps the other at my waist. “I have someone that handles the day to day and reports to me. I usually send everything off to the club’s lawyer to take care of. That is unless I need to get in on it. Then I go in and make sure everything is straightened out.”
“So, you have other people do your job and you do what? Work for the club?” I’m confused by all this.
“Yeah, Sweets, I work for the club. I’ve got responsibilities to take care of, but I’m not afraid of getting my hands dirty. Neither are the others and for the record, the club has shares in the oil company, so they get a piece of the pie too.” He grins, gliding his fingers along my side. “But I’m gonna tell you something. The last time there was a problem at one of the oil sites, I went out there with Dice, Rock, Wrath, and Mayhem. The five of us we went right to work, showingthose boys up and telling them none of us have a problem getting our hands dirty.”
“That’s awesome.”
“Guess you can say that.” He quirks that lip of his up and smiles. “You can also say your man’s a billionaire.”
I can’t help but roll my eyes at him and shake my head slightly. “I don’t need to know that. Because you may have the money, but you don’t throw it in people’s faces and act like a spoiled rich boy. You have a heart, and you make me feel things I’ve been scared to feel since you and the others saved me.”
“Nevaeh,” Maverick murmurs.
“It’s true,” I whisper, tears shimmering in my eyes. “I’ve been so nervous, but you’ve been there every step of the way, helping me, being there when I needed someone most.”
“I’m always going to be there for you. Told you, Nevaeh, you’re mine, and I ain’t about to let you go. Not now. Not ever,” he says before reclaiming my mouth, his tongue diving in seeking mine out.
The two of us cling to each other, our mouths fused together as he demonstrates just how good he is with that tongue of his.
A shadow casts over us, and Maverick breaks his lips away from mine in order to look to see who it is only to find Sabotage standing there grinning.
“We throwing the ball today or what?”
“Fucker.” Maverick grunts and glares while pulling me to my feet.
I get the sense that Sabotage interrupted just to fuck with Maverick while I glance between the two of them.
Maverick helps me brush some of the sand off and takes my hand. “Come on, Sweets, time to have some more fun in the sun,” he says but stops short of everyone and turns me to face him as he cups my cheek, “I do want you to think about that kiss we shared. I also want you thinking about what we have between us. I want you, Nevaeh. I’m not gonna rush you, but I want you to know we’re gonna go there. Whether it happens here while we’re down at the beach, or it happens later on. It will. I’m not about to keep going on and not being able to touch your sweet body. And later, we’ll talk more about earlier. I’m going to prove to you, those words are nothing more than a scar.”
With that, he presses a quick kiss to my lips, steps back, and starts walking toward the others while raising a hand.
