Page 49 of Alluring

He reverently placed kisses across her cheek, down her neck back up to her lips. "I love you, Alexis." He whispered it across her skin. Felt it in his bones. His need for her, all consuming, almost bordering on obsessive. She was his life and if anything happened to her, he would be destroyed.

She pressed her body close to his, reaching up, on her toes, to get even closer. She circled her arms around his back, holding tight. She spoke into his ear, "I don't ever want to let you go."

"Sweetheart, I'll never let you go."

That night, Jack and Alexis watched as Gage gave an impromptu charity concert for a non-profit canine sanctuary he was helping raise funds for. Jack had volunteered Pulled for the locale so all the proceeds would go to the charity.

Gage was alone, without his band, sitting on a stool with only his guitar, singing songs shouted by the audience. The place was packed, and Jack was grateful to be up on the VIP dais were only about twenty people were allowed.

Supported on his arms, he leaned over the railing, slowly nursing a beer. As he half listened to Gage and half listened to Alexis talking with Cassie, the woman who ran the non-profit organization, he felt a body settle at his side.

"Jack, good to see you. It's been awhile."

Jack turned his head. Sabrina. This he did not need. He smiled tightly. "Sabrina."

Sabrina moved a fraction of an inch closer leaning on the rail like Jack, her upper arms pushing on her breasts, causing them to nearly spill out of her top.

She was looking at the stage, but she spoke to Jack. "Like what you see? I remember you found them quite entertaining."

Jack took another sip of his beer contemplating his next move. Sabrina was clingy. It took two months of constant rebuffs for her to finally leave him alone. She was a fuck he wished he could undo. "You need to leave the VIP section. If you don't, I'll have security show you out."

"Why so hostile? We're just having a conversation. Besides, I'm here with my date." She gave a flirty laugh. "Don't worry, I'm not going to throw myself at you. You've made it quite clear in the past that you were done with me." She stood from the rail. "I'm not that desperate."

He watched her walk away, hoping that would be the last of her. He kept watching to make sure she left the VIP section. He felt a hand on his arm.

"Everything okay?" Alexis asked.

He turned to her and smiled. "Everything's fine, sweetheart."

"Who was that?"

"A one-night stand that didn't want to let go."

Alexis looked over the sea of people, trying to find the woman. "There seems to be a lot of those."

"Too late to change my past now, but if I could, I would."

Alexis gave him a disbelieving smirk. "Are you saying, if you could have changed things, you would've waited for me?"

He gave her his wicked grin. "I'm saying I would have found you sooner."

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Alexis searched the crowd and spotted the woman Jack had been talking with. She was the woman from the bar that had been hanging all over Jack the night she'd been drugged. She was beyond beautiful, with blond hair, and a tall, slim body in skin-tight jeans and a red, cleavage inducing halter top. Janet had been right about one thing, Alexis was definitely not Jack's type.

She would have passed the incident off as another "Janet" themed event, except for one fact. Jack. And his long lingering stare. That stare made a strange weight settle in her stomach and a tight knot form in the back of her throat, making it hard to swallow.

Her voice was suspiciously husky when she replied, "I don't know, I think I would've been tough to find."

Alexis watched Jack's brow furrow as he tried to dissect her tone. Good luck, even she couldn't figure out her feelings right now. "Believe me, had I known you were out there, no rock would've gone unturned."

"This is a pointless conversation. There's no going back."

Jack gave her a tender smile. "You're right there's no changing the past all we have is the future. A fantastic future of you and me."

"And baby makes three." Alexis stopped breathing and her eyes widened. She started shaking her head and she opened her mouth but no sound came out. She watched as Jack's eyes got dark and smoky. "I didn't mean that. It's just a saying that popped into my head when I heard those words."

Jack stared at her with an unreadable expression on his face. "I think I like the idea of your belly swollen with my baby." He sighed, and she understood his look now, longing. "Yeah, I like that idea a lot."

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