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He licks his lips and stares at me. “I called the wedding off.”
“To Erin?” I ask.
“She’s the only woman I’ve ever been engaged to, so yeah,” he frowns, and I bite back the retort that’s on the edge of my tongue.
“Why?”
“She had a pregnancy scare,” he says with a sigh and I blink at him.
“It’s not like that,” he shakes his head. “I’m not a complete asshole, Jessie.”
“I know,” I whisper as my pulse thrums against my skin.
“She wasn’t pregnant. I’d always told her from the start, I was clear that I never wanted kids. And she said she felt the same. Then, she had this scare, and I found out she hadn’t been taking her birth control properly and she was just so fucking laid back about it, like she hadn’t completely lied to me. She admitted she thought I’d change my mind one day. But I had never, ever give her any indications that I would. I do not want to carry on my bastard father’s bloodline,” he snarls, and I reach out and take his hand in mine. “The plan was we were going to live in the apartment for a few years, and then convert one of the other floors for ourselves. But, after the whole baby thing, I found out she’d put a deposit on an apartment overlooking Central Park. Without even telling me.”
“Haven’t you ever told your brothers about this?”
He shakes his head. “No, because besides all of that shit, she blamed them for us not working out. She said that they were too dependent on me. Conor and Mikey and Liam think I was miserable because we’d broken up, but I wasn’t. I was miserable because I knew that she was right. I would never leave my brothers, Jessie. My family is everything to me.”
“So, why did that make you miserable?” I frown.
“Because, I realized I would always put them first. Above everyone else. I don’t want kids, because I feel like I already have some. I have been looking after my little brothers since I was four years old. And I don’t resent that. I love them. I would make every sacrifice one hundred times over for them.”
“So, you chose their happiness over your own?”
He shakes his head. “No. I chose my brothers over the possibility of falling in love with someone again.”
“Oh, I see,” I nod. I understand him so much more than I did half an hour ago. I wrap my arms around his waist and rest my head on his hard chest. “Thank you for sharing that with me.”
He runs his hands down my arms and rests his chin on top of my head. “You know, my mother always used to tell me tales of curses and witchcraft back in Ireland. But I thought she was crazy. I never believed her. Now I’m not so sure.”
“You think I’m a witch?” I look up and grin at him.
“You’ve certainly got me under some kind of spell.”
I swallow as I look into his eyes. The moonlight highlighting the darkness in them.
I have never felt more loved in my whole life than I do by him and his brothers.
“It’s no spell, Shane. I love you. It’s that simple. And that complicated.”
He stares at me and I can’t help but feel like I have just crossed a line that he didn’t want me to cross.
He leans forward and seals his lips over mine, kissing me so fiercely that I almost lose my breath. Despite the cool air, my whole body is flooded with heat and desire. I have wanted him inside me since he sent me out of his office two nights earlier. He steps forward, walking me backwards until my back is pressed flat against a tree.
“Shane,” I pant as I wrench my lips away from his.
He groans out loud, mistaking my desperation for hesitation. “I need you, Jessie. And there’s no-one out here but us.”
“I don’t care who sees us,” I breathe as I reach for his zipper. “I want you. Right now.”
“Hacker,” he growls as he reaches for the edge of my dress and pulls it up around my waist before he tugs my panties to one side. “You’re going to get me. Every fucking inch of me, because you make me so hard I could come just from touching you. There is nothing I love more in this world than burying my cock in your hot cunt.”
“You have a filthy mouth,” I gasp as I pull his hard length free from his pants. He buries his head in my neck and growls against me as his hands drop to my ass before he lifts me until I can wrap my legs around his waist. There is no warning from him before he pushes his full length inside me.
“Shane,” I shout into the darkness as a rush of my cream coats him.
“Always ready for me, my little hacker,” he whispers against my ear. “Soaking wet and ready for my cock. Every. Fucking. Time,” he thrusts with each word until I am coming apart around him. There is something about being out here in the open with him that makes my heart beat faster and the blood pound through my veins. Every sense is heightened.
