Total pages in book: 83
Estimated words: 75891 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 379(@200wpm)___ 304(@250wpm)___ 253(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75891 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 379(@200wpm)___ 304(@250wpm)___ 253(@300wpm)
“I don’t understand any of what you just said. Is that a new language? While I’m talking to you, why are you sniffing around here?” She did some kind of self-defense move that I wasn’t expecting and escaped my hold; I felt the separation immediately.
And what was she doing while I stood there feeling like someone had taken a limb just because I was no longer touching her? Glaring and all but foaming at the mouth. How can she infuriate and excite me at the same time, every time? Doesn’t she realize the danger?
One punch on the chin should set her straight, but she’s too cute for that, so I’ll have to find another way that would work when the nut in the window was around. I can’t kiss her anymore because my dick was already acting like a divining rod in my damn pants. One wrong move and he’d probably try to take over.
I was about to say something else to answer her question, but I happened to look into her eyes just then; wrong move, but we’ll talk about that later. She has these expressive eyes, at least to me they are. And when I looked into them now, I saw…fear.
Not a deep, unmoving fear of physical harm, more like a fear of me and what I could do to her; fear of me rejecting her again. Why have I never thought about that before? The fact that she might be just as wary of me as I am of her? I guess I’ve just always been aware of her feelings for me and had somehow taken it for granted that they were still there. They better the fuck be.
“Why am I sniffing around you? Because my intuition tells me that you’re mine. Until I figure that shit out, I’ll sniff as much as I want. I’ll be back at seven. Be ready.”
“Oh, dear. Did you get an expired medical shot, or were you made this way?” She tapped her temple, implying that I was nuts.
I probably am, because I have no idea why the hell I just invited her out to dinner. I came over here to put her in her lane, but this one takes the whole damn highway with her bullshit. I’m mad and turned on at the same time, which is a bit of a conundrum, and for some reason, each time she gives me one of her insolent looks or rolls her eyes at me, my dick gets harder.
“Jessica, just be ready!” She swallowed hard at my tone, and I knew she was fighting to stand here with me, half-naked as she was. Funny, I forgot about what she was wearing or not wearing, so I’m guessing she’s not just a body like the others that only lasted as long as that physical need was there. And I’m fucked.
Calm down, Julius, take a deep breath. I brushed a stray lock of hair off her cheek, drew her in for a forehead kiss, then turned and walked away. If I didn’t, who knows what this uncontrollable urge would lead to.
I started to wave at her Dad facetiously, but thought better of it in the end. There’s no telling how he would react or what hell he’d add to my daily existence. The whole family is nuts as far as I can tell, no judgment here though.
CHASE
“That boy is slow as molasses.”
“Is he? Or is it our daughter?” She’s got a point. Those two have been sniffing around each other for a while now, at least that’s how I see it. I’m sure they don’t think that anyone knows.
I don’t know when it started, but I put two and two together a few years ago when my kid started ditching any engagement that he might attend. It could’ve been happening much longer than that, and I never noticed, but from the time I picked up on the pattern, I kept myself on alert.
Julius is the son of one of my closest acquaintances, both professionally and personally. A man of integrity who had raised his kids pretty close to the way I raised my own. I know his standards and trust them.
When I realized that there was interest there, I was glad in a way that my little girl could possibly end up with his son. Then she got into a serious relationship, and I thought that was that, even though it was obvious to all of us that they were in no way compatible, my kid and that Dale person.
I’d long put the idea of her and Julius getting together behind me, though, so I wasn’t prepared to see it again that night, when he came here. There was an unspoken understanding between us men when I let him handle that idiot woman in the driveway, one that I hoped he picked up on, and it looks like he did.