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He held my face in his hands as he looked at me with such fierceness that it took my breath away.“I can do anything I need to do to have you.Keep you.I can’t lose you.”
Perhaps it was the words spoken, so completely raw, or the imploring look in his eyes.Whatever it was, the moment my resistance crashed and burned to the ground at my feet, I knew it.
I nodded, emotion clogging my throat.
“Yes?”he asked with hope flaring in his eyes.
“Yes.”
His mouth slammed down on mine, engulfing me with his spicy scent and taste.I went on my tiptoes and buried my hands into his hair peeking out of the back of his hat.His arms came around me, picking me up and holding me to him as he licked, teased, and consumed me as if he couldn’t get enough.
We went on like that for several minutes until my body was humming with desire for more—which I knew I couldn’t sate tonight.All my anxiety and doubts seemed to dissipate with his desperation for me.I knew when I’d left him, I had pushed him.I had done something no one else dared to do—refuse to give him what he wanted.The fact that he wanted me more than the power that clung to him was impossible to believe.Yet here he was.Saying just that.
His lips left mine, but he held his mouth so close to mine that our breaths mingled as we looked into each other’s eyes.
“Tell me what you are willing to do.Give me something.”
I wasn’t ready for this question just yet.I wasn’t sure what the options were.“I don’t know exactly.You have a date this weekend, and I guess I need time to digest this all.When you get back—”
“Fawn, do you honestly think I am taking another woman to the derby when I just stood here and told you all I want is you?”
I had hoped he wasn’t taking her, but then who was I to assume anything?
I shrugged.“I don’t know.Yes.You bought her clothes, and it’s days away.”
Garrett pressed a kiss to my lips.“She went shopping and sent me the tab.She can keep her clothes.But she already knows she isn’t going with me.I called and ended that before I got here.”
I felt guilty for being elated at her being dumped so quickly.
“Don’t look concerned, pretty baby.She got plenty out of it with the clothing she’d bought.Unlike you, she had no issue with spending my money.”
That made it a little easier to accept.I didn’t like that she’d shopped on his dime, not caring about the cost.
“Do you still want me and Gypsi to go?”I asked with uncertainty.
A grin curled his lips.“Yes, pretty baby.I want you there.With me.I want to get to know Gypsi.My goal is to have you both under my roof as often as possible.But you get to control that.I won’t push.But I will use every ounce of charm I have to get what I want.You’ve been warned.”
I bit back a smile.“Charm, huh?”
He nodded.“It’s pretty damn powerful.”
I laughed.“Oh, Garrett Hughes, I have no doubt it is.”
Twenty-Eight
Fawn
I decided that the best way to tell Gypsi about Garrett and this weekend was to take the dresses, shoes, and accessories, along with the suitcases Garrett had given me, to the camper.Taking Gypsi to Garrett’s first would be too overwhelming.It wasn’t that I thought Gypsi would disapprove, but part of me worried that she’d be disappointed in me for getting involved with another man so soon.It wasn’t always the case.In her life, I had gone years without dating.I’d put my sole focus on her.Been both mom and dad for her.Also sister, brother, aunt, uncle, grandma, grandpa.I had been it all, and when she had been growing up, that had taken a lot of work.
I wanted to set a good example for her on the kind of men she needed to let into her life.Garrett was the fairy-tale sort, and I didn’t think she’d take this seriously.Whatever it was he and I were doing, small doses would be best.Starting with the derby.
Garrett had asked if he could handle Gypsi’s work and get her the weekend off.My first reaction had been no.But then if they didn’t let her off work, we wouldn’t be able to go.
I’d agreed to him using his power, which seemed to reach far and wide.He had dropped me off with all our things, come inside the camper, and fucked me on the edge of the kitchen sink before leaving me to wait on Gypsi’s arrival.
The new iPhone—which he’d also convinced me to take by showing me the app that tracked Gypsi’s phone—had my complete attention.I watched as she drove the speed limit—my little rule follower.She was almost here.I closed the screen and slipped the phone into the pocket of my linen slacks.
I was dressed in a casual outfit that Garrett had provided for the lunch he took me to at the country club.The white linen pants and sleeveless brown-red-and-black plaid halter top hadn’t seemed too expensive, but I’d felt as if I fit in with the way the other women were dressed.I still intended to put this back in that closet at his house.I wasn’t keeping the clothes he’d bought me.Even the casual, more affordable ones.
