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“I can speak to her if you’d prefer,” he offers.
“No, we both should.”
“We’ll talk to her tomorrow, okay? I’ll set up the payment in a few minutes and then we can have some dinner and try to forget about it all until the morning.”
“You think my parents will be able to forget it?” I cover my eyes with my hands. “And what if my father pays and that video still gets out? I mean the pictures are bad enough, but the video, of the three of us?” Heat creeps over my skin as I literally burn with shame, from my chest up to my cheeks.
“It won’t, Luce. I promise.”
“I can’t believe my mom and dad saw them, Jax. I mean the ones of you and I are bad enough, but to see another woman eating my…” I can’t bear to finish the sentence and instead I bury my head against his chest.
“I shouldn’t have let it happen like that. I didn’t think anyone would be able to see. I thought the ranch was safe. I’m so sorry, baby.”
“It’s not your fault,” I say, wrapping my arms around him. Just having him here makes me feel better. His solid presence is so reassuring. He wraps his arms tightly around me again. “God, I feel so bad.”
“None of this is on you, do you understand me? It’s on whichever sick piece of shit took those videos of us.”
“You have any idea who it might be?”
“No,” he kisses the top of my head. “But I will find them. I swear to you.”
He takes my hand and we stand up.
“I’m sorry we dragged you all the way here for this when you were dealing with everything in Dallas.”
“No,” he shakes his head. “You don’t get to be sorry about that, baby. You are always my priority. Always.”
“Did you find anything more about who attacked your father?”
“Not much. Nobody saw the guys who did it.”
“Any luck tracing the person with the crib?”
“No, I was chasing that up today when your dad called me.”
“I’m so..” I start to say but he frowns at me. “Anything I can do to help?” I ask instead.
“Yes.” He leans in and kisses me softly, sliding his tongue inside my mouth and lazily exploring. I lean further into him as his hands slide onto my ass and he pushes our groins together. The familiar tingling is already building in my core. How does this man make me a trembling wreck with just a kiss?
When he breaks our kiss, I gasp for breath. “So, what is it I can do?”
“You just did it, angel,” he says with a wink.
“Is it wrong that I wish we were in our own place so you could just take me to bed right now?” I whisper.
“That’s exactly what I was thinking,” he grins at me. “We can go home after dinner if you like?”
I chew on my lip. “I kind of promised my dad I’d stay here while you were away, and now with this going on…. I don’t want to upset him any more than I already have.”
He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath before he replies. “That’s okay. It makes sense for you to be here. I’ll be going back to Dallas when this is taken care of. So, I’d rather you were here while I’m away anyway.”
“How long will you be gone for?” I whisper. I hate that he’s going to leave again, but I know that he has to.
“Not long, angel. As soon as I figure out what the fuck has gone on there, I’ll be straight back here. Then I will take you home and we will spend all of our free time in bed if that’s what you want.”
“Sounds good.”
“Come on, let’s go face the world,” he says with a wink as he takes hold of my hand in his.
