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“That’s against the rules?”
He nodded, still combing his fingers through her hair. “The fact that you’re his daughter… It would undermine his authority with the guys… cause friction in the ranks and between us. The guys might think you were whispering in his ear or that I was whispering in yours.”
“Harry’s more likely to listen to your opinion than he is to mine.”
“I’m not so sure about that. He doesn’t know how to…”
“Talk about his feelings?” she asked without hiding her smirk. “I don’t think any of us get a medal for that.”
“Now with Three in the mix… Harry’s pretty damn sure there’s something romantic going on between the two of you.”
That truth was curious. “But you’re not.”
“Why would you be here if you were getting what you needed from him?”
She shrugged. “Maybe you’re better in bed, maybe I’m using him for his money.”
“I have skills,” he said, unhooking her hand from his pocket to saunter down the trailer. “I was thinking about it… ‘bout Money Bags and how he can give you so much… If I wanted to compete, I could get you money.”
“I already used you for your money today,” Tess said. “There is so much more to life than money. So it has to be the sex.”
“ ‘Cept you didn’t come here for sex either,” he said, swiping her panties from the floor.
Instead of giving them back, he opened the closet to put them inside.
She leaped off the bed to hurry down to the closet and grab the door. “Uh, I’ll need those back.”
“Nope,” he said, pulling the door from her hand to close it.
Knowing he wanted some intimate part of her to stay in his home wasn’t something to resist. “How do you know I didn’t come here for sex?”
“Because you’d have stripped naked and forced me to comply if you wanted it.”
“Forced?” she asked on a laugh. “I never forced you to have sex with me.”
“You forced me to have sex with you all the time. That’s what happens when you swing your sweet ass in front of me, or wear those dresses that…” Leaning forward, he hooked a finger into her neckline to pull it out and look down her cleavage, “put ideas in my head.”
“That’s forcing you?”
“You being hot, tempting me, forces me to go against my better judgment. Knowing your consent is a given…? Guy doesn’t have a choice.”
He went to the opposite end of the space and sank into his favorite corner recliner.
“Uh, you were the one who offered to rev my engine, Danny Boy,” she said, slinking down the trailer toward him. “The day we met.”
“Mm hmm,” he said, checking her out. “ ‘Cause you put ideas in my head.”
“Daire…” she said, stopping between his parted knees. “Thank you.”
“You’re welcome,” he said. “For what?”
“I was freaking out when I came in here… just being around you makes everything better… You make me better.”
“You have a support system,” he said. “You don’t know it because I can’t be to you everything I want to be… But I would kill for you, Little Red. I would die for you… You will not fade away. I won’t let it happen.”
TEN
IT TOOK TESS A SECOND to figure out why those words were familiar. “You were listening. You heard what I said to Harry… You knew about the burgers before he even opened the door.”
