Page 46 of A Reclusive Heart

She didn’t bother opening it. There was no point. Her mother was dead and the mother she thought she had didn’t want her and neither did her father. At least this explained why they never seemed to want her around. She was a constant reminder of what her father did and on some level, she actually felt bad for her stepmother. It must have been painful for her to see the physical reminder of her husband’s betrayal every day. Jamie wasn’t sure she could handle something like that, but she knew that she would never take it out on an innocent child.

“Have you looked at this?” Nick asked, placing a hand on her hip as he reached around her and took the envelope from her.

“No,” Jamie said after a slight hesitation.

She didn’t see the point of torturing herself with something that would never be. Maybe a few years from now when this whole thing didn’t make her feel like crying, she would open it and find out her mother’s real name, but for right now, it was too much for her to handle.

“Do you mind if I take a look at it?”

“What for?” she asked, turning to face him.

“I might be able to hunt down a picture of her or even a lost relative.”

“Oh,” Jamie said softly because she hadn’t thought about that, but it would be nice to know what her mother lookedlike since her father hadn’t exactly been forthcoming with the details. After they’d announced that her birth mother was dead, they’d practically shoved her and Nick out of the house, but, of course, her stepmother and sister made sure to give them a tearful goodbye from the front door and wished her luck with the rest of the tour for the cameras.

“I’ll take care of it tomorrow at the office,” Nick said as he placed the envelope on top of her bureau. “I did tell you that we’re expected at the office tomorrow to go over the tour so far, didn’t I?”

“No,” she said, smiling when he winced. “But that’s fine.”

He leaned in and gave her a quick kiss. “About the office...”

“I know that I’ll have to keep my dirty little hands off of you,” she said, sighing heavily. “I’ll try, but it will be difficult,” she teased.

“You have no idea,” Nick said roughly as he leaned down and took her mouth in a hungry kiss.

It wasn’t long before he was tearing her clothes off and she was sliding her hand beneath the waistband of his boxers and stroking him. When she was left in nothing but her panties, he ripped them clean from her body, startling her and sending her arousal into overdrive. It was as if he’d thrown gasoline on the fire and she couldn’t get enough of him.

Somehow, she found herself sitting on the edge of her bureau with her legs spread and his tongue sliding inside her as she buried her fingers in his hair. Eventually, she was forced to grab the back of the bureau as he took her roughly with his mouth. When his fingers joined his tongue, she couldn’t hold back. Within seconds, she was screaming his name until her voice was raw.

Before the last ounce of pleasure left her body, Nick was standing in front of her and slamming his way home as he took her mouth in a hungry kiss that left her screaming for morein seconds. She wrapped her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck, desperate to be closer to him. When he stumbled away from the bureau, she let out a surprised squeal that had him chuckling even as he slowly ground himself inside her.

“What are you doing?” Jamie asked, licking her lips hungrily as he moved his mouth down her neck and suckled in that naughty little way of his that drove her crazy.

“I’m making love to you, baby,” Nick said roughly against her skin seconds before they were falling.

She landed with a startled gasp on her back across the bed with Nick still firmly in place. He buried his face against her neck as he cupped her breast and rolled his hips slowly against hers. She loved the way he touched her, looked at her, and made her feel, but most importantly, she realized as he shifted until he was on his elbows looking down at her that she just plain loved him.

As he stared into her eyes, Jamie had to fight the urge to cry at the tender expression on his face. She reached up and cupped his face in her hands and drew him down for a kiss. He would never know how much she loved him, she thought sadly.

“Jamie, oh, God,Jamie,” Nick groaned against her lips as she fought against the urge to tell him how much she loved him. It was a difficult battle, but somehow, she won. As much as she would love to tell him how she felt, she knew that he’d be running for the door before the last syllable left her mouth so she would have to settle for whatever he could give her and hope that it didn’t kill her when he finally walked away.

“Oh,I’m sorry. Did I wake you?” Jamie asked with that innocent smile that he loved as she readjusted herself on his lap.

Nick shook his head, fighting back a yawn as he watched her bite her lip while she slowly slid down his morning erection. A loud groan escaped him as his hands shot out to grip her hips and gently guide her so that she didn’t hurt herself. How in the hell had he lived this long without morning sex? There really was no better way to wake up, Nick decided as his little recluse gripped his forearms to steady herself as she moved back up his cock.

Her eyes closed in pleasure as she licked her lips and he knew he’d have to make damn sure that he was around every morning to start her day off like this. He’d never had morning sex before, late morning sex, yes, but not first thing in the morning sex. That probably had something to do with the fact that he made it a point to leave as soon as he was done. Sticking around usually sent the wrong message to the woman he’d fucked with like he cared or even remembered her name. With Jamie, he more than cared.

“You can go back to sleep if you want. I promise to be quiet,” Jamie said on a soft moan that had his cock twitching inside her.

“But if I go back to sleep, I won’t be able to do this,” Nick said, adjusting his hand so that his thumb was able to tease her clit.

Jamie gasped as she laid one hand over his as she slowly rode him. “It would probably be for the best if you stayed awake then,” Jamie agreed as she did this little twist and drop thing that had him sucking in a breath and struggling not to throw her on her back and fuck her until she couldn’t move. When she did it again, he arched his back and released a loud groan.

As much as it killed him, Nick decided to lay back and let his little recluse have her fun. That didn’t mean he couldn’t help her reach the point of screaming his name a little faster to put him out of his misery. He wasn’t a masochist, after all.

Jamie’swarm smile when he stepped out of her bathroom made him wish that they could call in sick today, but they had too damn much to do. Well, he did. His little recluse needed to go over some things with Rick and work on her books. They still had a month of tour dates to complete and there was so much that he wanted to show his little recluse. He couldn’t wait to get back on the road with her.

She walked over to him and lightly ran her fingers down his silk tie before standing on her toes to press a kiss against his cheek. “I love your hair,” she said, smiling as she walked past him to the door.

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