Total pages in book: 25
Estimated words: 23483 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 117(@200wpm)___ 94(@250wpm)___ 78(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 23483 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 117(@200wpm)___ 94(@250wpm)___ 78(@300wpm)
Him being this close is messing with me, but I know I just need to get it out. “I have something this evening.”
He nods. “Okay, where do you need to go?”
I humiliated myself yesterday in front of him, but it’s about to get even worse. “I don’t need to go anywhere, but I do need the house for a bit.”
He eyes me suspiciously. “To do what?”
I jut my chin at him. “You do know I’m an adult, right? I don’t have to tell you what I’m doing every second. It’s already bad enough that I had to try out my toy last night with you in the next room.”
The truth is, I couldn’t get the thought of him out of my head. If anything, it was a turn-on, knowing he was in the room right next to me, but I couldn’t get out of my head and focus on anything but Legend.
“What are you doing, Maya?”
“Well, I told you that I have a problem and I have to fix it. My whole livelihood relies on it.”
He starts to interrupt me, but I hold my hand up to stop him. “This is all I have, Legend. Don’t try and talk me out of it.”
He leans toward me. “Talk you out of what, exactly?”
I close my eyes and shudder a breath. I might as well tell him because he’s not going to let it go. “I’m going to have online sex.”
He sits up a little taller and glares at me. “Excuse me?”
I throw my hand up in the air and then get up and start cleaning up our plates. “Well, I’m not going to hook up with some random guy. I figured online would be the safest.”
“Maya, you have a stalker. There’s nothing safe about online sex right now.”
Ignoring him, I put away the uneaten food. “Legend, it’s perfectly safe. We meet online. I touch myself, he touches himself. If I’m lucky, maybe there will be some dirty talk. It’s a win-win.”
I swear Legend stomps his foot. “It’s not happening, Maya.”
“My agent said—”
He cuts me off, anger filling his voice. “I don’t care what your agent said, you’re not hooking up with some guy online.”
I put my hand on my hip and glare back at him. He’s angry as he stares down at me. His nostrils are flared, and his jaw is pulled taut. Why does he have to be so sexy? “You’re not my boss.”
“Look, I’m here to protect you, and I can’t do that if—”
I put my hand to his chest. I’ll give him that, he takes his job seriously. “You don’t understand. This is all I have. My career is all I have. I can’t lose it.”
He brings his hand up and covers mine with it. He presses my palm against his chest, and his heart is pounding like crazy. “Let me help you.”
I’m about to argue with him and then stop. “What did you just say?”
He takes a step toward me, and I feel my hard nipples graze against his chest. I suck in a breath, hating that my body is betraying me. He leans down until his face is mere inches from mine. “I said let me help you.”
11
LEGEND
Maverick is going to shoot me in my head. He loves his sister, and when he finds out that I’ve fallen for her, he’s not going to be happy about it. But I don’t give a fuck. Right now, I’m freaking out because she thinks I’m just going to stand by while some guy gets off to her pleasuring herself.
It’s not going to fuckin’ happen.
Her eyes are so big as she looks up at me you’d think I told her I was about to jump off a bridge or something. Her forehead creases. “What do you mean, ‘let me help you’?”
I nod at her with all the confidence in the world. “I can get you there.”
She sets the dish she just washed in the drain and then dries her hands off. “Well, I appreciate the offer, but I don’t need a pity fuck.”
As soon as the words leave her mouth, she gasps. “I mean, not that we’re going to have sex. I mean, I know that’s not what you’re offering me, but—”
I take a step toward her. “Pity fuck?”
She rolls her eyes. “Legend, come on. I may not have all the experience in the world, but I’m not dumb. You apologized for kissing me. I don’t need you to do whatever this is you’re offering and then instantly regret it. My self-esteem doesn’t need another blow like that.”
What the fuck? She thinks I regret kissing her? That’s what all the “fines” were about. That’s why she has her panties in a bunch? I put my hands on her hips and pull her to me. She stumbles, slamming into my chest, but I just tuck her up against me so she has no doubts about what is happening here. “I apologized to you because you’re vulnerable. I’m supposed to be keeping you safe, and I practically ravaged you in a parking lot. I apologized for taking advantage of you… not for kissing you. Maybe I shouldn’t have done it, but there’s no way I regret it. Since the moment I laid eyes on you, fuck, just looking at your picture that Cerberus sent me had me hard as a damn rock.”