Jo squirmed a little, but she didn’t leave.
“He tried to convince me not to marry you,” She said, matter-of-factly. There was no attack in her statement, nothing to make me feel like it was something she was even considering.
“Did he? Convince you?” I asked, slowly. I wanted to make sure that he hadn’t. I wanted to beat the life out of him. It was one thing to cross boundaries when it came to our respective work relations. When it came to our father. But to approach my woman… he would have to be punished.
She crinkled her nose. “I’m not convinced of anything after last night’s dinner. The prospect of leaving my life behind, even if only temporarily, is not something I’m excited about.”
I couldn’t help but feel like she was holding something back. That she wasn’t telling me everything. The look in her eyes, the way she bit her cheek. Those were her tells.
But I’d let her have them. She was right, she’d been through so much already.
“Joanna,” I started, but those big eyes looked down at me, and they made me impossibly angry. How dare she jeopardize herself like that? “Don’t you f*ck
ing do anything so risky ever again.”
I grabbed a fist full of her hair and pulled her down into a kiss that I knew was going to hurt. I didn’t give a shit. I wanted to make her hurt, make her feel the pain and torment she caused when I heard her voice on that phone. She had no idea how my heart leapt up into my throat, how my pulse raced. She didn’t know that I was so close to racing over here and breaking my brother’s neck right in front of her. No matter the cost I would make sure she was safe.
I may have been a monster, but he was a demon, and I wouldn’t let him taint her. I kissed her like I could kiss the memory out of her, like I could banish anything he brought into this house. Any doubt she had.
The way she kissed me back, her hands running through my hair, her body arching into mine, it told me that she wanted the same thing. f*ck
, this girl knew exactly the right way to ruin me.
And I wanted it. I wanted it all.
I breathed her in, my whole world in my lap. That was what she was becoming. That was what was happening. I didn’t want to admit it. It was too much, too fast. It made sense, though. If I fell, it was going to be fast. And to a woman like her.
God dammit, I didn’t want to fall.
Looking into those bright blue eyes I knew I didn’t have a choice.
“f*ck
, Jo.” I kissed her again, my teeth scraping against her lip. I’d kiss her again and again just to satiate this hunger. Just to feel her. Feel it all.
My cock pressed hard against its cage. It wanted her. I wanted her. f*ck
, the way it throbbed made me absolutely crazy. She pressed herself against me, her body wrapped around my cock, the thin panties and my pants the only thing separating us.
“Why can’t I say no to you?” she asked me, the look in her eyes one of lust, of fear. I wanted her to look at me with more, but I’d take it.
I’d take any and all of it. I slipped my hand into her blouse and up her side until I found her breast and gave it a squeeze. Oh. Dear god, she was luscious.
She was messing with my head, and it was really dangerous. So dangerous.
I couldn’t wait. I needed her now. I reached up and grabbed her panties, pulling them down from under her skirt. I wasn’t going to wait, no not this time. This time, it would be fast and hard. There was always next time for slow and sweet.
“Greyson, please?” she asked, begged really. I loved it when she whimpered. It made my f*ck
ing day. But I wasn’t going to deny her, not this time. I reached my waistband and unbuttoned it, zipping down my pants and freeing my cock. God. Dammit. I needed her, now.
As soon as I was free I was in her, filling her, f*ck
ing her. I couldn’t wait to get undressed, I didn’t care about that. All I cared about was her at that moment. f*ck
ing her, smelling her, feeling her. I wanted to take her in and never let her go.
“Oh, yes, Greyson. Yes.” She was so beautiful in the way that she said it, her heart beating heavy, the pounding of it audible against my chest. She wanted me just as much as I wanted her, and we both knew it. She moved up and down my cock her body acting as a sheath, making me crazier and crazier with each move.
Giving up control to her, surrendering it, letting her have the one thing I was always too afraid to surrender. The stakes had never been higher.
“God, Joanna. I need you,” I growled. I hated being vulnerable, but it was what she made me. How she made me feel. I couldn’t be anyone but myself with her.
I grabbed her hips and pumped myself into her, my cock entering her over and over again. f*ck
, she felt so good. All of her surrounding me while I felt her from the inside. It was perfect. It was everything I craved.