Page 18 of The Book Signing

“It’s nice here, with no one else around. It’s a quiet afternoon, and–”

“Quiet? I don’t think it’s been quiet since we’ve come here.” I look at him and smirk.

He laughs and adjusts his sunglasses. “Are you saying that I talk too much?”

I shrug my shoulders. “When someone has a large ego…” and leave the rest in the air with a grin. Helaughs and splashes water at me, but I duck under water and swim away.

When I come up for air, I notice him watching me with a smirk on his face. Annoying.

“Well, that’s one thing a woman hasn’t said to me before.”

I run my eyes over him, watching the droplets of water drip from his shoulders and fall across his abs.

“Oh, and why is that?”

Jaxon moves closer, the water splaying around us as he leans in against my ear.

“My mouth is usually too busy to do any talking.”

I purse my lips and take a deep breath as I try my best not to latch onto him like an animal. I need to remain cool and not act like a horny woman. But fuck, just the thought of his mouth on my skin makes goose pimples grow.

I’m starting to rethink this idea of spending the afternoon with him at the pool. An empty one, too.

Chapter Nine

JAXON

I heat up the instant I catch a glimpse of Abigail’s attractive body. For fuck’s sake, she has a belly ring and damn, that’s always been a turn on for me. I’m a lover of piercings, having my right brow pierced, too.

I try to reel in my drool and resist staring at her perked-up nipples as the cool air encourages them to say hello. But it’s tough not to eye fuck her when she looks like that. Hard to suppress a desire to kiss her, something that Irarely need to do.

And when our eyes meet… well; I know in the depth of my soul, this woman is going to be mine. One way or another.

But you don’t stay with a woman longer than a night or have casual flings, and she won’t bring herself to do that again.

Well, isn’t that unusual? My conscience is poking fun at me for the first time.

“What are you thinking about?” Abigail asks, bringing me out of my stupor. I look at her amused expression, with a lifted eyebrow. “You’ve got this look as if you are conducting a meeting in your head.”

Fuck, get your head out of your ass, Jaxon!

“If you must know, I was actually thinking about how sexy you look in that bikini. Your belly ring is, ah, cool.”

Oh fuck, you are losing it. Cool? Seriously?

Abigail shrugs and says, “Oh, yeah, sometimes I forget about it. I got it when I was nineteen. I had the body for it, so I thought, why not?”

“Well, you still have the body for it. Not going to lie, you are smoking hot.”

Yep, this is getting worse.

Her laugh makes me both embarrassed and pleased.

“I’ll take the compliment. Thank you.”

“My pleasure.” I say, even though that just makes me think about what Abigail does to me. If only she knew what I was really thinking about; the sight of her perky tits and nipples makes me salivate.

I won’t tell her, though, seeing as all I’ve been doing is blurting out my dirty thoughts.

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