“Kane!” I squawked. Jerking away and tugging my skirt down again. As I glared at him as if he’d just done something horribly wrong.“Skirt feel too short now?” He remarked. Setting a hand on the counter and leaning his hip over to give me a taunting look. “Or just thinking about pulling it up?”I gaped at him. Blushing hotly. Eyes round.“Oh?” He straightened back off the counter. Instantly intrigued. “You were.”“I wasn’t!” I tossed my hands and headed out of the room as fast as I could go on my damn heels.No more heels.Get some more work pants from my house. I promised myself.Walking back into the office, I spotted Logan hovering around my desk. I deflated. My head dropping. I moved to take my first step beyond that doorway but a grip on my arm pulled me back into the hall and lightly against the wall next to it.“Go to the bathroom, Sweetheart.” I was looking up at his tanned neck and strong chin. “I’ll get rid of him. Come back in a bit. You don’t need his shit.”He was twisted
Him?A good boy?Hardly!I snorted. “I don’t think you know the meaning of the word.”“Oh…” He pursed his lips as if I’d burned him. Before his face smoothed into a teasing grin as he strode around to the front of my desk. “I know how to be good. Real, real, good…” He sauntered backward.I instantly saw the playful teenager in the leather coat and ripped jeans. Grinning like that. Sauntering backward while he teased me like that.Why had I ever wanted to keep him a secret.It dawned on me that I’d never really given him a chance.I’d been so sure of what he was that I’d never taken a minute to find out.Then a small part of me blamed him for my pain when he left.But now I wondered what he’d felt like when I’d demanded we keep us a secret from everyone we knew.He’d always taken it in stride.But did he really?I stared at him in confusion as he sat down.He scooted his chair in and glanced up and saw me giving him that long study. “What?”“Who are you?”He chuckled and went back to t
And I’d come close enough to wondering if I’d be spending the next few years in jail, I had no interest in spending my near future in a cold, dirty cell.That fear had been enough to mend my ways.I considered giving up my apartment for however long I was to be residing in Porter’s apartment.It would save me nearly $1000 a month which would go along way toward savings. But the idea of not having it there when crap hit the fan with Porter was a bad idea.It occurred to me I was already back to calling him ‘Porter’ in my head. The familiarity of calling him ‘Kane’ felt a bit dangerous.Everything about him feels dangerous now.I sighed. Rounding mom’s door, I knocked lightly even though it was propped open and headed in. Coming to a dead stop there.What?“Hello Daughter.” Mother greeted. “I’ve met your friend here.”Porter was sitting in a chair near her bedside. His elbow propped on a thigh and his chin in his hand as he listened to her speaking until I’d arrived. Then his eyes had f
Those words were daunting.‘Give him a chance’. Mom said.To what? Help me?Is that what Kane wanted? I swallowed.“You’re so conflicted.” Mom stroked my cheek. “I can see the fear on you. But I’d chance that, that boy pined for you just as much as you did him when he went away.”“He asked me to write him.”“But you didn’t.” She said sadly. “You never had time for things like that.”“I never made time for things like that.” I corrected. “I got back together with Tommy.”Her nose crinkled at that name. “Never liked that one.”“But I did.”She snorted. “You liked that he was the football guy.”I nodded. “You’re probably right.”“Sounds like military brat didn’t fit the mold you had at the time.”“I suppose not.”“Does he now?”I loved her. But man, somedays I hated when she cut right down to the heart of things. “I don’t think I have a mold anymore. But if I did he’d probably surpass it. He’s too perfect.”“If he’s too perfect, it means he likes to control things. If he likes to control
Fair point.Why wouldn’t I just say it? I’d been asking myself that all day.When I took too long to answer, he glanced over from rubbing the fork with a green and yellow sponge. Giving me a sideways look. “Do you want steak?”“Yes, Sir…” I lifted my hands in surrender. Quickly grabbing a thick plastic spoon from the flowered ceramic vase of utensils I’d placed in the middle of his counter, simply to be annoying. I set it next to the stove as I bowed out of the room.He glared, watching my step comically.Laughing, I rounded and headed for one of the boxes of my things. I had to wander a minute before I realized I couldn’t find it.“Kane?”“Yes, Dear?” He said in an overly honeyed tone as if he knew what I was going to say.“Where are my clothes?” I called back from the living area.“I burned them.”“What?” I screeched. Brows flying to my hairline.“Yep.” He stepped from the kitchen to peer at me. “So you’d have to be naked all the time. Burning those too.”He eyed me head to toe poin
I gave a triumphant smirk. “Not as sneaky as you think you are.” “Oh, no?” He sauntered toward me in a little dance. Sliding his leg along the outside of mine as he began easing my skirt up with a warm palm. It was dizzying. Hypnotic how he could seem so cold and calculated at work then all smiles and play here. Making me laugh. I shook myself. “Your steaks are burning.” He clacked his wine glass to the counter and twisted to see. I bolted. He looked back, realizing the ploy. “Ah, c’mon!” He laughed in frustration. “That’s bullshit!” I laughingly ducked into the bedroom to change from my work clothes, knowing dinner was about done. I wiggled out of my skirt and suit jacket. Unraveling my nylons as I heard plates clattering and knew he was dishing us up. “If you’re hiding from me,” He called in a sing song voice. “you’re hiding in the wrong place…” I scampered out wearing an overly large
“You seem to make a lot of things happen.” He’s a force of nature. “I don’t wait for things I want.” He gave me a pointed look. “And once I’ve got them…” He stood from his chair and began rounding the bar as he aimed for me near the front door. I turned to follow his movement warily. Backing up in step with him, upon witnessing the intensity on his face. “I don’t let them go.” He shook his head methodically. “Not anymore.” “Kane…” “Angel.” His deep voice rumbled as he’d backed me into the door. He put one hand on my shoulder and flattened his body along mine. Sliding the other along the door so he was tilted sideways against my other shoulder. His legs and pelvis pinning me where I was. “You’re being, a bit…Intense.” “I’m always intense.” He dismissed. “My brothers have told me so.” “I’m not just going to fall into your bed.” I said. Swallowing as I breathed raggedly. “Good.” He whispere
I am not. I wasn’t afraid to admit I wanted him. At least that’s what I told myself. I hesitated. Opening my mouth to argue. Telling my feet that they should stop moving. Looking at him as if begging him not to make me, make this decision. But he was heartless. “You’re being cruel.” “No, cruel is what I’m going to be once I have you strapped to my bed.” “Kane…” I said warily. Giving him a wide-eyed stare. Feeling a bit unnerved by that statement. From the look in his eyes, he was not kidding. “This is never going to work.” I whispered. “Having sex with me?” “Whatever we’re doing…Whatever we are…” “Does it have to?” “I don’t know. I don’t really know what you’re looking for.” “You didn’t ask me back then, why you asking me now?” “Because I don’t know if you’re just playing the field, I’m-I’m not…” My eyes fell. But I suddenly felt the back of his bed again
“Well,” Nita slapped my desk. “My work is done.” She stood and rounded on Kane. “This one is going to cost you.” She pointed at him. He smiled fondly at her. “Slow barbecued ribs, I remember. Long as you make some of that potato salad.” She slapped his shoulder when she was next to him. “Of course.” She stretched sideways to give his cheek a light peck as though he were a brother before smoothly exiting the office. “She’s a pitbull.” I shook my head in wonder. “You should’ve seen her in the courtroom.” Kane shook his head in disbelief. Settling his suit jacket over his chest. “It was so brutal, I was uncomfortable for Logan.” “Well, I’m glad someone was. Because he certainly wasn’t.” He nodded grudgingly at that. “Well, he’ll have plenty of time to think about it, with his wages cut and sitting at home, trying to find other ways to access beautiful, capable, women.” He walked over to stand befor
I was standing next to my desk, not wanting to be sitting when Logan came in. I didn’t want him to catch me off-guard. I was as prepared as I could be for the awful confrontation. But Logan never came. Instead, I saw the legal team carrying boxes, escorting him down the hall like a flock of busy blackbirds. Chirping different things while he talked to them in a clipped, annoyed tone. With boxes? I watched them. Turning my head to follow their progress past the glass walls of my office. It was only a few minutes after that, while I was still standing there bemusedly, that Kane entered the office in his fine suit. But his mouth was tight and he looked a bit saddened. Nita’s face was unreadable. At least for me. I don’t know her well enough yet. “What happened?” I asked quickly. Afraid to move. Afraid something bad was going to happen. Kane stopped just inside the office. B
His warm weight was along my back. His legs molding my legs as he slid his erection along the crack of my ass. Stroking himself in the warm crease. Getting harder by the second. He swept one arm beneath my ribs to lift me slightly. The other was along the front of my chest, just below my neck. Holding me where I was while he kissed my ears and cheek. When he lowered enough to straighten his cock and slide it into my entrance it was that warm, stretching relief. The feeling of satiation that only he could offer. My body superheated. And he stroked into me. Holding me to him as though he intended to never let me go. Eventually his hands molded along my biceps so he could lean up. Holding me there while he angled in more deeply. “Ahh.” I cried in surprise, feeling the sudden depth of him touching me more deeply. He rolled his hips forward, testing his length in my channel. Finding the objecting barr
“You don’t have to go, you know?” “I do.” Kane said flatly. I said nothing. Unsure what to say. “It is absolutely about protecting you.” He read my thoughts. “But it’s more than that.” I waited. Intrigued. “The way he treats people in this office is deplorable. Threatening, groping, demeaning. Now woman deserves that.” For the first time, it dawned on me that he was right. I’m not the only one he sexually harassed. It was how Logan had often coaxed women to his bed. But not every woman in the Chase and Walker departments was a whore. So, how many could he have tried to bully into his bed. My eyes widened and my stomach got a little sick. Perhaps, I was to blame for that. My silence, for fear of Logan kicking me out of the company, might’ve exposed other woman to Logan’s shit treatment. Kane was reading my features. Something he was getting rather good at. “Don’t you dare
“To think, I once thought you…Safe.” I said ruefully. Safe…I was shaking my head at myself. How many times had I thought how silly that word was, in application to him? He lifted his head in surprise. “I am safe.” I searched his face. Sensing the severity in his meaning. “For you.” He vowed. “I will never hurt you, Angel. If you stay by my side, I’ll give you everything.” I nodded. Sensing the deep sincerity. As if he was now offering me everything he’d yearned to give me back then. “You were enough then too, Kane. You know that?” It was something that really needed saying. His brow furrowed. As if in doubt. I felt the immediate need to reassure him. As he would me. “When you were, K.P.” I explained. “You were enough. I was just too young and dumb to see it.” He laughed and dropped sideways over me. “Isn’t that the story of everyone’s life?”
I licked my lips but found this even harder to admit. He leaned over me, pushing that finger in further as he began to move it with his hips, simulating what he’d soon be doing to me. Now he could whisper into the shell of my ear. “All tied up and whimpering. Unable to stop me while I take you…” My back jerked upward and I nearly came, but he pulled that finger away. Making me growl in frustration and writhe furiously. But before the sound had even reached completion, he’d replaced that finger with his long pulsing member. Which was starving to intrude into my tight channel. Pulling my walls apart as it delved into my very center. Reminding me how powerful he was in this moment. How easy it would be for him to hurt me if he stretched just a little too far. He’s long enough to do it. He could destroy me. Hurt me irreparably. He could scratch me, bite me. Things I’d always feared Logan might try to do, every tim
I almost couldn’t believe I’d admitted out loud. That I want to belong to him. I could imagine life with Kane being just what he’d shown me so far. Pleasant evenings in his blue jeans making dinner together, drinking sweet wines, going for drives in his fancy blue spider that smelled of leather and his woodsy cologne, even him going off to do what was needed at the Red Tar while I waited eagerly for him to return. Keeping his bed warm. Then waking to blearily watch him pull on his shorts to go for his run. Then falling back asleep until my alarm blared. Then rising and going to the kitchen to get my thermos, already full and warm and steaming with the fresh brew, he made me every morning. Walking into that office and seeing his handsome features across from me. Knowing he’s mine. And I’m his. That was getting me wet. All of it. I swallowed the lump in my throat. Watching his f
My wrists strained at the bit of Velcro and buckles, wanting so badly to touch him. I was finding it incredibly hard to track all he was saying. “Wh-what do y-you want, Kane?” “You. No resistance, no distance. You. Bare, vulnerable.” He caught my breast and squeezed its shape in a sensual motion as he finished. “Mine.” He was watching my face intently. Parting his lips as I parted mine. Watching each nuance of my expression. His lips nearly against mine as I writhed and tipped my head back. Trying to escape the intensity of the situation in tiny increments. Both aroused and resistant to being so exposed. “Stop.” I laughed. He growled hungrily and dipped his head to kiss me. A deep, probing kiss. While he moved his finger in slow circles inside me. I moaned uninhibitedly and he swallowed the sound. Twirling my tongue, with his. A reflection of the motion his finger was doing. Stretching me and warming me. Making me moister by the minute as I ye
I caught the stool and turned it. Pointing his knees at me. I swept my hair back into a ponytail and began lowering before him. He set the fork down and turned slightly to offer me more. His eyes riveted on me. His lips parted and I looked up, observing his face as I wrapped my lips around the knobbed tip of him. Letting my soft lips glide over the tip and take him fully into my cheek. Tucking my teeth and rubbing along the side of him with my tongue. He gave a long groan of pleasure. “Holy shit.” “You like that?” I lifted my head to whisper. “I fucking love it. More.” He caught my head and guided me back down to him. I obediently put my mouth back on him. Drawing him in further, until I felt him just brushing the back of my throat. The chair creaked as his ass flexed. Straining to push him deeper into me. “It’s so hot.” He panted in objection to the raging temperature combining with what I was doing to him. I c