Page 27 of His Sacrifice

“Fine?” I asked. “How is any of this fine?”

He turned and moved back behind his desk. He clicked a few buttons on his computer and then shrugged on his jacket. He moved toward me and grabbed my arm. “Let’s go.”

“Go? Go where? What are you doing?”

His hand glided down my arm and threaded his fingers through mine. “We’re going to fall in love, Jada.”

Chapter Twelve

Creed

“This is crazy,” Jada whispered.

I looked down at her.

We were in the elevator riding down to the parking garage.

I didn’t have a damn clue what we were doing, but I knew we needed to start right now to look like a couple. “Do you work today?” I asked.

Jada shook her head. “It’s my day off. I have a few things I need to do today.”

“Like?”

“Things,” she hissed. “I know I need to tell Candace whatever you tell me to, but I don’t think that includes me telling you everything I’m doing.”

I shook my head. “You and I are spending every possible second together, Jada. So whatever things you have to do today, I’m doing them with you.”

The doors to the elevator slid open, and I pulled her toward my car.

“This is crazy. Do you really think Candace is going to believe that you and I are just instantly in love?”

I hit my key fob, disengaged the locks on my Audi, and opened the passenger door. “No, not right away, but if she is watching you, like I am sure she is, the more she sees us together, the more she is going to believe.”

“I’m not getting in the car.”

I stared down at her. “I’m trying really hard not to be pissed off about this whole situation, Jada, okay? I get that she threatened you, and you had no other choice. Now, I am your choice. Get in the car and tell me where we are going.”

She folded her arms over her chest. “I don’t want you coming with me.”

“Why?” I asked. “Meeting with a secret boyfriend and worried I’ll cramp your style?”

She rolled her eyes. “No.”

I motioned into the car. “Then get in, Jada. I get this isn’t something you asked for, but this is the hand you’re dealt. It’s me or Candace.”

“I’m going to get in, but only because I want to, okay? And when we get to where we’re going, you’re staying in the car.”

Yeah, that wasn’t going to happen, but I could deal with that argument when we got to wherever the hell she wanted to go.

“You’re a difficult man,” she muttered. She slipped into the car, and I slammed the door shut.

“Not the first time I’ve heard that,” I mumbled.

Jada needed to get used to me being around because I wasn’t going anywhere.

Chapter Thirteen

Jada

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