Total pages in book: 59
Estimated words: 55606 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 278(@200wpm)___ 222(@250wpm)___ 185(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 55606 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 278(@200wpm)___ 222(@250wpm)___ 185(@300wpm)
“I told you.” Lance rolled his lower lip between his teeth.
She narrowed her eyes ever so slightly. “Lose your cushy gig in Hotlanta?”
He noticed that she continued to monitor where Michel and his asshole men had gathered. More arrived as they stood there, far enough away that their words weren’t going to be overheard, but that Michel felt he still held some control.
Shifting his stance, he swallowed hard as his cock responded. “Something like that.”
She popped the gum in her mouth and shook her head. “Fail to see how this is any concern of mine.”
He moved his hand along her ass, fingers brushing just below the hem of the shorts she wore, exposing her sexy, toned legs. She trembled beneath his touch.
“What will it cost me?” The moment the words left his mouth, he realized there had been a million other, better, ways to ask her to keep his secret from the men gathered. But no, his mind, which didn’t seem to work right when he thought about her, had gone on the fritz once again. So of course I make sound like she is a whore and I want to hire her.
The sneer on her face wasn’t faked, and when she held up her hands, the men watching them laughed. His stomach twisted. This could very well be the end. The four men walked closer. He wanted to kick their asses and keep them away. He didn’t have a solid on her cooperation and it made him nervous.
As fuck.
She shifted away from his touch and he disapproved of her move for more than one reason. Told himself the only reason that was important was he couldn’t shield her if or when shit went sideways.
“You think that offering up some lame-ass apology is going to make up for this latest stunt you fucking pulled on me?” Her voice pitched higher, definitely carrying to those near, as she pulled her gum out of her mouth and smashed then stretched it between her thumb and index finger. She watched it as if it held all the secrets to the universe.
Lance latched onto that and prayed his instincts about her hadn’t been wrong.
“Come on, baby. You know I have to go when my boss calls. I can’t tell him no. I didn’t want to be away from you for the past few nights. I had to be.”
She scowled and flicked her gum in Michel’s direction. The man scrambled back and glared at her. She shrugged her slender shoulders and turned toward Lance once more.
“I’m not sure you’ll be able to pay what this will be costing you.”
He saw a lifeboat and grabbed on the line it dragged without a second of hesitation. Shifting so they were again touching, he skimmed a hand down her face. The result was far from an act. Lightning crackled through him, his pulse skittered up, and not because of the men there. It all had to do with this woman. Blood zipped south and settled all too comfortably in his dick.
“Whatever it takes, baby. Just, please. No more ASP and forgive me. I’ll spend all night on my knees for you if that’s what it takes.” A wicked grin. “You know how much I love being between your legs.”
The men gathered laughed but he didn’t take his gaze from her. There in her brown eyes was a spark of something he’d seen in her gaze the first day he’d met her. Coincidentally that had been the day she had propositioned him. In all his days of wearing a badge he’d never been so tempted to take someone up on an offer as he had been then.
She shifted to him, hips swaying with a seductive motion he knew people paid good money to learn. He would bet his life, and in a sense he was, that she came by hers naturally. Just like everything else about her. Natural.
He wanted to find out the truth.
His cock twitched when she walked her fingers up his chest to smooth them along his jaw. She stopped when her full chest brushed him and he would have had no problem shifting his hands a tiny bit and grabbing her hips or ass in his hands, hauling her flush to him.
Her touch along the facial hair he still hadn’t had time to knock back was incredible. And he was even more fucking stupid than he had been. He didn’t need to be losing his shit around her but getting her to help him and out of the situation.
All it took was her touch and he was rendered helpless.
“One night isn’t going to be enough.”
Isn’t that the fucking truth.
“Whatever you want, baby.” He brushed the back of his hand along her face. “Forgive me?”
“Maybe.”
“My old man’s here. Says he’s ready to meet your bitch.”
Jasmine growled, and in no more than five seconds had spun and kicked a can that launched through the air to hit Michel in the middle of his forehead.