Not expecting those words from her, Kai frowned. Smiling even wider, Jessie walked over to him, swaying her hips in the way she knew turned him on. Sliding her hands up her ribs, she hooked his shirts on her fingers and pulled them up her body. By the time she was directly in front of him, she was only wearing her favorite pair of black lace underwear. “I believe these are yours,” she whispered, as she tossed his shirts onto his shoulder.
Straightening on the bed, Kai’s eyes immediately locked onto her breasts, conveniently positioned directly in front of his face. One of his hands reached out and gently cupped her backside, under the seductive fabric. The other slid up her back, pulling her toward him. Jessie’s eyes traveled the length of his body before settling on the bulge in his slacks. It was achingly apparent that he was ready to reconnect with her, too.
As the forgotten shirts slipped off his shoulder, Kai’s lips closed over a nipple. His tongue flicked the peak, and Jessie closed her eyes and let a groan escape her. It only felt completely right between them now. He felt right, and after everything they’d been through, she wasn’t bothered in the slightest if everyone within earshot knew it.
Kai smiled as he trailed his fingers down Jessie’s bare back. She trembled, smiling into her pillow as she lay on her stomach next to him. Already having spent all day in her bed, Kai felt like he could spend an eternity here and be completely happy.
Sitting up on an elbow, his recently spent body perfectly relaxed, he shook his head as he drew a circle into her pale skin. “Is it wrong…?”
He let that trail off, and Jessie opened her eyes to peek up at him. “Is what wrong?” Her voice was lazy, relaxed. Her last orgasm had been a good one, for both of them.
He smiled wider. “That I actually feel a little happy about Nate Harper not being my real father now.” Sighing, he shook his head. “I wouldn’t have been able to do what we just did with a clear conscience if he was.” Kai laughed as he replayed the multiple things he’d done to her that were very…un-cousinly.
Laughing with him, Jessie flipped over onto her back. She did nothing to hide her wonderful breasts from him and grinning, Kai leaned down to suck on one. She trailed her fingers through his hair as she exhaled a slow breath. “Yeah…me too. I liked a few of those things.”
Cocking an eyebrow, he peeked up at her. “A few?” Her moans had suggested otherwise.
She laughed deep in her throat, then pulled his head up to her lips. “Okay, maybe everything. God bless you for knowing exactly what to do with that tongue.” As if to emphasize her point, she flicked her tongue into his mouth. Kai closed his eyes, remembering the taste of her. He couldn’t quite recall anything that had ever tasted better.
Sighing, he pulled away from her. Her chocolate brown eyes flicked over his face, concerned. As happy as Kai was, he knew there were still hard conversations they had to have. They should talk to their grandmother. Well, Jessie’s grandmother. He should probably have another talk with his boss…his real father; he’d sort of dashed out of there the second after he’d laid eyes on the irrefutable proof. And Kai definitely needed to talk with his parents, a conversation he wasn’t looking forward to. Jessie should talk with her parents too, if they were going to continue with this relationship. And he wanted to. He was almost looking forward to getting all of the hard conversations with family members out of the way, because at the end of them, if all went well, he would still have Jessie. It would be just the two of them, alone in a bed together, loving each other physically and emotionally.
Running a finger through her hair, watching a long strand wrap around his finger, he smiled and shrugged. “I know Nate Harper isn’t really my father.” Kai paused; those words still felt weird to him. Swallowing roughly, he continued, “But regardless, I love him.” He tore his eyes from her dark hair to find her studying him with a small smile on her lips. He smiled. “He loved me as a son, even when he knew I wasn’t his. That’s pretty incredible if you think about it.”
Jessie nodded, running a few fingers down his cheek. “Uncle Nate is a good man.”
Kai could easily see the resemblance to the man who had raised him in the woman beside him. There was comfort in that fact now. “Yeah, he is.” He shook his head. “I’m not really sure what Mason is like, and maybe he’s a good man too, but I think I got pretty lucky with the father who raised me.”
Kai felt a peaceful calm flowing over him as he said it. True, he didn’t like what his parents had done, what they’d kept hidden from him, how they’d lied, how they’d chosen to tell him the truth. But he had to respect all of the support, wisdom, and unconditional love that he’d been given by the man he’d known as father.
Jessie let out a happy sigh. “And he did a really good job raising you. You’re a good man, Kai. You’re a great man,” she whispered.
Pride and love filled him at her words. He wanted to be a good man for her. He wanted to be everything for her. He knew that every day he would strive to be the man that she saw when she looked at him. “You amaze me…how you see me.”