Page 43 of Don't Lie to Me

I cried out and collapsed against his chest. I came so quick and hard I thought my heart was going to explode but Jack kept pounding into me, over and over again and another orgasm quickly began to bloom in me.

One of his hands cupped my cheek. He lifted my face so I was inches from his and the lighter grip on my hip allowed me to move against him.

“I fucking love you Emma. I know it’s fast and crazy and there’s a whole load of shit we have to deal with, but you need to know that.”

I couldn’t have taken my eyes off of him if I tried. The way he stared at me, while I moved against him left me feeling lightheaded and dizzy.

With one more fierce lift of his hips, I found my release in him as Jack clenched his jaw and pulled me down hard on top him. My clit hit the perfect spot on his groin and we released together, our eyes locked on one another.

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“Wha….what did you say to me?”

“You heard me,” Jack said and brought his lips to mine, gently. They felt like a soothing feather against my swollen lips. “I love you.”

Holy shit. He did say it. I wasn’t imagining it.

“That’s not exactly what you said.” My lips twitched in humor. I wanted to throw my arms around him and make him take the limo back home and I wanted to laugh. And then I wanted to throw up. Jack McMillan, the man who doesn’t get close to anyone, loved me.

Holy shit. Again.

He scowled. “I said I fucking love you. And you’re starting to piss me off with that look full of all sorts of crazy you’re giving me right now.”

“Well, that sounds more like you,” I said and leaned in to kiss him again, both of us wearing small smiles.

“You drive me crazy, you know this right?”

I hmmed against his lips and kissed him again. “I’m in shock. I don’t know if I know what to say right now.”

“How about you love me too?”

I pulled my eyes to him and saw him in a way I never had before. This man – the financial genius – looked more innocent and like a needy little boy than I had ever seen anyone in my life look before. He was vulnerable before me. Baring his heart and soul in a way he had probably never done before. He could be an arrogant asshole. He could command me to do things my body instantly did without any thought. And he promised to protect me and Logan. We were his.

And he was mine.

I lusted after him for two years. I knew him better than almost anyone, probably. And there wasn’t a single thing I didn’t love about this man in front of me.

I cupped his cheeks softly with my small hands and rubbed them against his soft stubble. I leaned in a kissed both of his cheeks and then his jaw, before moving to his mouth.

He sat still, letting me move against him and kiss him tenderly. He seemed frozen in time as if the intimacy and tenderness of a woman to him was unexperienced.

“I love you,” I whispered into his ear as I leaned forward. “There isn’t a single thing about you I don’t love.”

It wasn’t the most romantic setting; straddling him in the back of a limo while we professed our love to one another. But the instant his lips touched mine, I knew it was perfect. It was how Jack did everything with me. I pictured him setting up spreadsheets and graphs and commanding a boardroom and creating a pro and con list of reasons why and why not to love me. And then I pictured him seeing me in a doorway and throwing all of it on the floor in a mad second of craziness, like he always said he felt around me.

It was us. Messy and wild and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Slowly, the car pulled to a stop and Jack pressed the intercom button next to him. “Give us a minute before opening the door,” he told his driver, Shane.

I blushed a thousand shades of pink as I looked down between us.

Slowly, I climbed off him and adjusted my dress while he tucked everything back into his tuxedo pants.

He took my hand firmly and steeled his dark brown eyes on me. “I want you to know before we go in there that I mean every word. I didn’t say this because of Marcus or whatever bullshit we may face tonight.” I took a deep breath before he continued. “You and Logan are my world and I love you both. I will do anything to protect you and keep you both safe. You get me?”

I got him. I wiped away a tear and gently pressed a finger underneath my eyes to prevent my mascara from running.

He not only loved me, but he loved Logan. That alone was more powerful and emotional than anything he could have just said to me.

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