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“You want what your brother took…”
“No, I want the chance to know how wearetogether. The night we spent together talking, dancing, laughing, fucking…that was the best night of my life.”
My heart raced at the reminders.
“I’veneverwanted a woman the way I want you. No one has ever made my body ache with need or kept me perpetually hard.” My eyes dropped to the table that concealed his lap and back up to his face. “Like I am right now.”
“Jack…”
“I didn’t trust myself around you while you were dating. After you ended things, I wanted to give you time. I didn’t want you to lump me in with him, with how he was.”
“I would have,” I admitted.
“I wouldn’t have blamed you. I hoped time would make it less likely. That maybe you could see me separate from him.”
“I did. I do.” I finished my second glass of wine and hadn’t eaten nearly enough food. “Part of me is flattered and I don’t know if that’s healthy.”
“We established at the wedding that neither of us is normal, Petra. I want to go with it, see where it leads.” His voice dropped. “Let me have you again. Let me remind you.”
After a small hesitation, I nodded.
He stood and dropped two large bills on the table from his wallet. Taking my hand, he lifted me to my feet and nuzzled his face against mine. I leaned back to look at him.
“Your place or mine, Petra?”
“Mine. I need you to drive.”
Handing him my keys, I waved at Rebecca and let him guide me from the building and into the passenger seat of my car. He slid behind the wheel, adjusted the seat, and drove to my building in record time.
“You knew where I lived,” I noted absently as he parked. “When you took me home the first time.”
“Mom originally wanted me to buy a house on the other side of your development. Your mother showed me your building to demonstrate that you didn’t need me or my money. She suggested I bring my A-game when I met you.”
“You did.”
“I fucked up but I’ll do better in future.”
Despite the weirdness of…all of it, I wanted him and I wanted him to want me. I wanted to know if we could work.
Mom wouldn’t hesitate to weigh in if shit seemed like it was going sideways.
I asked myself if I was being weak. I decided aweakwoman would run from Jack. Make all kinds of assumptions and allow insecurity and fear to make her choices for her.
I wasn’t weak and I deserved the right to get exactly what I wanted for a change. I already knew Jack could provide it.
Fuck it. Time to freefall.
Chapter Sixteen
As my front door closed, Jack asked, “Any chance someone will drop by?” I shook my head. “Thank god.”
He shoved me against the wall of my foyer and kissed me while he reached for the tie to my dress.
Opening it wide, he groaned. “Look at you.”
Crouching on one knee, he rubbed his face over my belly and inhaled the scent of me. He planted open-mouthed kisses over my mound.
“I’m stripping you down this time. I don’t want to destroy another pair.” He rubbed his lips over me through the delicate lace before sliding them down my legs.
