Page 104 of Redemption

“Teddy, relax,” Jack chuckled, taking him from me and shutting him in the bedroom. “Damn dog,” he muttered when he came back.

“You love it really,” I teased, trying to lighten the mood.

“I do,” he nodded. We faced each other, not knowing how to start. I just stared at him, at the soft brown hair that fell across his forehead. His bright eyes had lost some of the wariness they usually held and, in general, he seemed less reserved than normal.

“Thank you for working with Daisy on the model,” I said.

“I need you to know, I didn’t do it so I could help build the guest ranch. That wasn’t my intention.”

“No, I know. But I want you to put your stamp on this place.”

He quirked a brow at me. “You do?”

“Of course. You’re so talented and hell, this is your home. You’re part of Redemption, you shouldbe able to have input in what happens here too. Daddy would have wanted that. You’re family.”

A slow smile spread across his kissable lips. “I am?”

I nodded. “Once you’ve broken down Daisy’s defenses, you’re in,” I joked.

“You have that much faith in me?”

“I do. I know we’ll need contractors to do some of the other foundation work but I want you to help build it.”

He stepped closer and I tensed, waiting to see what he would do, but he stepped back and I tried not to feel disappointed.

He cleared his throat. “Thank you, that means a lot.”

“You’re welcome.”

He continued to stare at me, fists clenching and unclenching. There was an intensity radiating off of him that I didn’t understand. But when he didn’t do anything else, I began to feel like I was taking up space in his cabin.

“I’d better go.” I headed towards the door and he followed behind, reaching around me to open in. “Goodnight Jack,” I said, trying to keep the sadness out of my voice.

He growled, actually growled. “Fuck it.”

Then he slammed the door shut and the next thing I knew, I was being pushed up against it and his lips were crashing into mine. My body melted against him, like I’d been holding myself together for too long, just waiting for the next time he touched me, and now I surrendered.

He ate at my mouth, his hand coming up to cup my jaw, angling my head for deeper contact and he rumbled low in his throat when our tongues teased each other.

My hands were up under his sweatshirt, my nails dragging down his skin, pulling him closer in a frenzy. I needed to feel him everywhere. I’d been without him for so long that I was starved for him.

He pulled his mouth away, trailing kisses over my face, cheeks, eyes, and back to my lips. Then they trekked down my neck and back up to my ear. “I can’t stay away from you,” he murmured.

“Then don’t.” I sighed blissfully as his hands cupped my ass, lifting me, and my legs wrapped around him, feeling his hardness right where I needed him. “Don’t leave me again, please,” I pleaded, pulling his sweatshirt over his head.

His hands made quick work of the buttons on my shirt and then we were skin to skin, both of us sighing at the contact. He walked us towards the bedroom door, managing to kick Teddy out and shut us in and never once moving his lips from mine.

He lay me down on the bed and pulled back. His eyes wide and hot on me, his hair spiky from where I’d tugged at the strands. His stare roved over my face before he lowered himself to his forearms, stroking my hair and touching his nose to mine. “So beautiful, sweetheart,” he whispered and I nearly sobbed.

I writhed against him and he grunted as he worked our pants off. Then his hands were spreading me open and tracing slick circles over me. He pulled back to watch my face as he worked me, taking me higher and higher and my eyes fluttered closed right as I was about to fall.

“Stay with me,” he said. “Stay right here.”

I opened my eyes as my climax slammed into me, watching him, the intensity in his stare, thelove.I whimpered, my body shuddering and clenching but he wasn’t inside me.

“Now, Jack,” I sobbed and then a moment later he was filling me up. So thick and perfect.

He hooked an arm under one of my knees,bringing it up and hitting me deeper. My eyes flew wide as he pounded into me and grunted with each thrust. His muscles flexed as he worked and our skin slid together, damp with sweat. He tilted my hips, hitting that spot inside me that had me crying out as another peak loomed.

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