Page 213 of Under Her Skin
She nodded. ‘Yeah. I think Iam.’
‘Don’t be scared,baby.’
She smiled at him. ‘I’m not. I’m mad. I’m pissed that I was denied this for solong.’
He grinned. ‘Good.’ He moved his body onto her hers. ‘Gotta tell ya, woman, you’re hot when you’re angry. Sorta like the anti-Hulk.’
‘Smooth.’
He laughed and starting kissing her neck. She ran her hands over his arms, down his back, over his buttocks. She tightened her arms around him, wrapped her legs around hiships.
‘Theo?’
‘Yeah,darlin’?’
In the moonlight he looked so much younger, his big green eyes on hers, his easy smile. She thought he had never been so handsome as he was this night. She smoothed his cheeks with herthumbs.
‘I loveyou.’
He kissed her, crushing his mouth against his. ‘I love you too, baby. Just me and you now. For alltime.’
She smiledbut her eyes were sad. ‘Make the world go away,Theo.’
He pressed his lips to her forehead, kissing away the crease and ran his hand down her stomach. ‘Anything for you, darlin’.Anything.’
He gathered her to him and they made love for the rest of thenight.
The girlhe’d picked up at the club unzipped his pants and bent overhim.
Jules leaned back and relaxed while she worked on him, touched her red hair as her mouth enveloped his cock. He closed his eyes and imagined darker hair, darker skin, a sweeter touch. When he was almost there, he pushed the girl back to the floor and thrust into her, ignoring her little cry of pain. She had Jessica’s face and he was fucking her hard, punishing, a raging hatred and lust inside him. He wanted to kill her for sharing their little secret with that fucker. Scratch that, he just wanted to kill her,period.
But an idea had come to him earlier, as he drank one drink after another, and now he was certain it hadn’t been Jessica who blabbed to Storm or Max Zeigler. It was someone else, someone who he’d thought would never betray him or the memory of his father. Someone who should knowbetter.
Jules had gottendrunker when he realised what he had to do and now, fucking this girl whose name he hadn’t bothered to learn, he forgot about that and instead imagined he was Theo, with Jessica in his arms, and as he imagined her skin against his, he came, grunting and sobbing until he wasexhausted.
‘I refuse to go. I say to thee, sir, Irefuse.’
Theo started laughing as Jess pouted on as Theo started to pack. It was their last full day before flying back to Seattle at an ungodly hour the next morning. He leaned over and kissedher.
‘Beautiful, nothing would make me happier than to stay here forever with you. However, to pay for this haven, I have to work. We still have tonight toenjoy.’
Jess sighed and dragged her case over to the bed. ‘And I have to look for anotherjob.’
They packed in silence for a while before Theo, with uncharacteristic shyness,spoke.
‘You don’t have to. Work, I mean. I’m not trying to be… but, you know, you could finish your Ph.D., concentrate on that, take some time to figure out what you want to do next. You have a big brain, you could doanything.’
Jess’s face was blank. ‘Theo, I have to pay my way. I love you but unless it is occasional treats like this place, I wouldn’t feel right. It’s my responsibility, notyours.’
Theo felt stung. ‘Jess, I never want you to think I’m trying to run your life for you. I’m notJules.’
Distress crossed her lovely face and tears sprung to her eyes. She dashed them away impatiently. ‘I know that.’ Her voice was thick and he wanted to reach for her, but her body had tensed and he felt the distance betweenthem.
‘Jess… I’m just saying, take some breathing space. You deserveit.’
‘Can we talk about thislater?’
Theo sighed inwardly. God, the damage Jules had done to her that she couldn’t accept any kindness. ‘Sure.’
