Page 21 of Secret Baby for Mr. Grump

Clear reluctance showed on her brother’s face as he glanced between her and me.

“We’ll be back in ten minutes,” Allie announced, turning to leave. But before she could, her brother came forward a little closer to me. He was about Allie’s height, so he only came up to the middle of my chest, but there was a fierceness in his expression despite his diminutive size.

“You do anything to my sister, and you’ll regret it,” he spat out.

I merely cocked an eyebrow at him.

“Adam, stop,” Allie said, sounding tired. “Come on, Marcus, I’ll show you around.”

I said nothing to Adam and turned to follow her, feeling daggers at my back as I did.

The first few seconds of the walk were spent in tense silence. I could see her stewing, her strides quick and angry. I couldn’t help but smile.

She was bouncing around like an angry bunny, her ponytail bobbing in emphasis. I knew she would spit it out in no time at all. The girl never knew how to hold a grudge to save her life.

Right as we reached the staircase, she turned around and crossed her hands over her chest.

“Why didn’t you tell me you were in town to buy the resort?”

“Why didn’t you tell me you had a kid?”

Her eyes widened at my counter, her mouth dropping open. There was a flash of caution in her expression that I didn’t fully understand.

“I didn’t…I mean, I didn’t….” She sighed in frustration. “Well, you didn’t exactly leave me any good ways to contact you.”

“True,” I said unrepentantly. When I sent the letter telling her I was leaving, I didn’t leave a contact address because I didn’t trust myself not to come running back to town if she told me to, no matter how pathetic that sounded. She had quickly become one of the few things that mattered to me in this world.

I was also pretty possessive over her and would have come back to claim her at the slightest provocation.

Especially if I heard she was getting married.

“Still, you could have told me yesterday at dinner,” I mentioned. “Or after, when I had my tongue in your mouth.”

Her face flushed red, and she gaped again. She anxiously glanced around as if someone would walk by and hear us. Then, she bounced into action, grabbing my hand and pulling me into the corner before hissing at me.

“Did you have to be so crude?”

“Crude?” I raised my eyebrow at her. “Crude would have been if I said that I want to press you against the wall right now and taste you again. And maybe put my hand under your skirt and see if you’re still as hot and soft as I remembered.” I leaned closer, watching her eyes darken and her breath catch in her throat. “I could also tell you how much I want your pussy in my mouth, but I think that would be too much.”

I nearly laughed at the incredulous look that filled her face. She sputtered, but nothing sensible came out of her mouth. I had no idea why I was provoking her so much. Maybe because it was fun to see her mad. Maybe I was a sadist or a masochist and wanted to see if she would slap me.

Or maybe just because it got me hard as hell.

Her face was red and flushed, her chest showing that her breathing had become deeper.

She didn’t resist when I wrapped my hand around her waist and pulled her to me.

There were no more protests as we kissed.

NINE

ALLIE

My head was swimming, and nothing made any sense.

The sensations tearing through my body were sharp and dizzying, quickly ripping at my sanity, my sense of time and place. It was impossible to fight back, and soon enough, I stopped trying. Before I knew what was happening, my hands were grasping his shoulders, holding on for dear life and subtly pulling him closer even though my sanity demanded that I tell him to stop.

But I wanted him closer. I wanted his body flush on mine, even though I could already feel the hint of it on me, could feel his shirt nearly brushing against my heated skin. It took me a while to realize that my legs were not on the floor anymore but hanging in the air as he had his hands cupped around my butt.

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