Page 154 of My Five Daddies

“Damn right you are.” He grins and kisses me one moretime.

We linger like that together, alone in the room. I don’t know how much more alone time we’ll get over the next few days, so I’m going to enjoy this moment for what itis.

The work isn’t done. We’ll have so much more to do to help this country become the best it can possibly be. But I know Nolan can do it, and I’ll do whatever I can to supporthim.

My life changed so much, so quickly, but I couldn’t be happier. I never pictured this happening. But I can’t imagine things being anydifferent.

I squeeze my prince’s hand and we head back out into our castle, into our country,together.

Filthy Beast

Prologue: Tara

That filthy,dirty, disgustinganimal.

He thinks he can have whatever he wants. He’s a dirty, enormous, muscle-brained brute. He’s arrogant, rude, dangerous, way too famous, and an asshole. I’ve known him since I was a little girl, and he broke my heart a long timeago.

I have a million reasons to hate JacksonHendricks.

So I’m extra stupid for putting myself in this position. I should never, ever be alone with him. I should never, ever let him touchme.

I definitely shouldn’t watch while he strips off his shirt, revealing his incredible muscularbody.

“What are you staring at?” he says, a smirk on his lips. He knows exactly what I’m thinking about. He steps closer to me and I back up, bumping against the wall of his trailer. His grin gets deeper as he pins methere.

He broke my heart. He promised me everything, promised he’d always take care of me, that he’d take my virginity and make me feel special for the rest of mylife.

Instead, he joined the military anddisappeared.

He was the boy next door. Well, really, he was the man next door. Jackson has always been… well, he’s always been huge. Well over six feet tall and rippling with muscles, everyone assumed he’d become a professional football player or something. Jackson knew he was big and scary, and he always used that to his advantage. He wasn’t afraid of anything, especially not proving exactly how huge hewas.

“You know why I took this movie?” he whispers in my ear. “It wasn’t for themoney.”

Bastard. I hate him. I moved to LA and got into the movie industry assuming I’d never see him again. I wanted a new start in life. I wanted to forget about my past, including that brute next door. And I thought I was right, I thought he had disappeared for good. I never forgot him, but I movedon.

Until one day, I see him in this huge action film, and I realize that he’s back in mylife.

Now we’re working together. And I can’t get away from him. He’s the star of this movie, and I can’t avoid him even if I wantedto.

I feel his heat as he presses closer against me. My heart starts racing. I keep wanting to run away, but I can’t. Jackson’s even bigger than I remember, even filthier, even more… absolutely freakinggorgeous.

“I took this movie to get what I really want,” he says to me, his hands on my hips. “I took this movie to get a taste of what I lost but never stopped needing. It’s been a long time, Tara, but I haven’t forgotten mypromise.”

I turn bright red. I’ll never forget that promise, either. I was going to give myself tohim.

I gasp when his lips find mine. I moan as his hands strip off myjeans.

He could crush me. I know he’s going to destroy me. I should run away from this man. I can’t let him break my heart a secondtime.

And yet I know I’m nothing under his enormous hands, and I can’t stop until I’m totallyshattered.

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Jackson

“You gotta take it,Jackson, you just gotta! You’ll be astar!”

I grunt at Mickey and lean back in the chair. I put a fake frown on my face. “I don’t know,” I say. “Brutally Dishonestis an awful title. And thatoffer?”

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