Page 60 of Wildest Desire

Plating up breakfast, I look over as I see Lexi walking over to me. She stops for a moment and looks at me, and I can’t help but smile.

“I know what you’re doing.” She starts walking over, looking at the table. “You’re walking around without a top on, and a beautiful breakfast set out… Are you romancing me, Mr. Knight?” she asks as she sits down, pulling her chair into the table.

“I’m only showing you how much I love you,” I reply, sitting down in front of her.

She nods her head at me. “So, the loving words and lovely breakfast is just to show me you love me, not to get me all,” she licks her lips, “wet, and excited?” She whispers the last part.

“Oh, and you just had to sleep naked last night,” I reply.

“It was hot last night,” she says with a smile. It was not hot last night, and the fact that she kept bringing her ass closer and closer to me did not help me at all.

“Of course it was,” I say, filling her mug up with coffee.

This girl is the biggest tease I think I've ever met, but she's a tease that tows the line, but doesn’t cross it. She plays to win every single time.

I watch her undoing the top few buttons of my shirt that she's wearing. “I think that it’s getting a little hot again,” she says, looking up at me through her eyelashes. She bites her bottom lip to keep from smiling.

Leaning on the table, I look at her as she eats her breakfast. “You make me happy, and when you lose, I’m going to show you just much,” I tell her, and she starts laughing.

“I’m not losing.” She dips her finger into the whipped cream and brings it to her lips. “Why haven’t you licked this off me yet?” she asks, licking her lips very slowly.

My eyes follow as her finger moves down her neck to her collarbone. When she suddenly stops, I look up at her face and see at her grinning at me.

“I’m going to get dressed,” I say as I stand up. I haven’t eaten yet, but I would rather do without food than have a fucking hard-on all day.

“The fun was just beginning,” Lexi shouts over to me, causing me to stop and look back at her. “I was about to cave.”

Shaking my head, I continue to walk over to my room. There's no way she was about to cave; that woman is a lot stronger than I am. I’m the one that will cave tonight if she keeps going like this. I take my phone out of my pocket as it begins ringing. “Hello, Mom.”

“Ethan, please tell me you haven’t forgotten, and that you aren’t leaving me with them?” she asks as I walk into the closet.

“No, I've not forgotten. How can I forget our happy family reunion?” I say, letting out a little laugh.

“I just want to let you know that Tanya has asked Travis to be here, and before you say anything, I've told him to stay away from you.”

That’s all I need right now. Two people I don’t want to breathe the same air as me, and then my best friend—who I’m still unhappy with. My sister wants him there, so what can I say?

“If she wants him there, then that’s fine.” I end the call, not wanting to hear anything else at the moment. I’m already worried about what today will bring and I don’t need to hear my mother tell me how she’s proud that I’m not taking my anger out on him.

Sitting on the bed, I rub my forehead, trying to ease the tension.

“Let’s put a pin in the teasing for a minute,” I hear Lexi say as I feel her hand on my back as she moves in front of me. I move back a little so she can sit on my lap, as she slides her finger along my cheek. “What are you thinking about?”

I look at her for a moment. She said no teasing, which means she wants to talk, but I don’t know how to talk about today. I don’t even know what I’m going to hear.

“I’m thinking I’m about to see a man that I’ve hated for years and a woman that only wanted me for my money, and now I don’t think I can face them.” I rest my head on her shoulder. “I know it makes me sound weak, but—”

“Ethan, that doesn’t show you as weak. It shows a man with a heart who got hurt and isn’t about to let them do it again,” Lexi cuts in, and I look at her. “You don’t always have to be this strong man in front of me. I love the strong Ethan, and I love the soft Ethan.”

I never thought I would meet someone who wanted to be with me no matter what. Money or no money, strong or not, she wants to be with me.

Pulling her in for a kiss, I tangle my hands in her hair. “I think you have seen the real me from the start,” I tell her. My phone takes this opportunity to start ringing. Looking down I see Selena’s name on the screen.

“Unpinned now.” Lexi gives me a wink and walks away from me.

“Yes,” I answer the call as I watch Lexi slowly undressing in front of me. My eyes are moving along her body as she throws her shirt on the floor.

“All the paperwork has been sent over for the Washington mall, would you like me to bring it over?”

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