Page 123 of Family Bonds- Garrett & Justine

“Neither of us is perfect, but what we have together is,” she said.

It was as if the words unleashed a chain of events in his body causing him to rush into sixth gear.

He was jerking into her faster, pulling out and slamming in. If he wasn’t holding onto her legs he’d be sending her up higher on the bed.

“I’m so close,” he said. “Get yourself there. Touch yourself.”

“What?” she asked.

“You heard me,” he said. “Do it.”

He might have been firmer with his voice than normal, but he didn’t have a lot of control of how he was feeling either.

Her hand dropped between her legs, found her swollen bud of pleasure, and rubbed it.

Her head went back, and her eyes closed again as if she was concentrating on getting herself there.

The sight of her pleasuring herself while he rammed into her was more erotic than he could have imagined.

Her hips lifted some, her hand moving faster, then she was coming, arching her back and calling out his name.

His hands went under her thighs lifting her hips higher and almost suspending her in the air as he came.

She had no choice but to take what he was giving her, but since her finger was still swirling around her bud and lower lips as she continued to groan, he didn’t think she minded all that much.

He dropped onto her after he released her legs, but was bracing himself on his hands.

“And that is how you compromise with news. Good and bad, you just make the best out of it.”

He hugged her to him and rolled. “I love you.”

“I love you too,” she said quietly, then laughed and he joined in.

“What’s so funny?”

“I don’t know,” she said. “I just like hearing your laugh, and when I do it, you do it and I start to giggle and here we are.”

“Yeah,” he said. “Here we are.”

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DO IT FOR DAD

“You didn’t have to come with me,” Justine said almost three weeks later when she walked into Bond Law with Garrett at her side.

Roark had called her, not Karly, wanting her to come into the office. That they needed her to know what was going on before they passed what they found to the DA and the detectives in Fort Wayne.

That meant something big and she had to do it when Jordan could be on the call since her sister couldn’t fly in.

“There was no way you were coming alone,” he said. “You know as well as I do that something big is going to be told to you. Otherwise, he would have just said they found nothing.”

She hated it took so long, but as Roark said, the files were archived and only the last six months were readily viewable, Karly had to get help accessing older files and that meant sourcing it out. She knew the DA and police weren’t rushing for that right now.

“I know,” she said, looking at him as they passed through security and walked to the elevator.

“How does Jordan feel about it?” he asked.

“She never says much. She’s always been more about the facts and that is what I hope we get today.”

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