I smiled, feeling loved and protected. “Okay.”
“Works for me.” Miles shrugged again. “Hey, Mia,” he called from the other end of the table. “Did you see the necklace Jagger got Sutton forher birthday?”
“Oh my God.” My hand covered my heart. “I forgot all about the necklace. I’m so sorry, Jagger. I didn’t even say thank you. It’s absolutely stunning.”
“What do you call that type of design?” Miles smirked and gestured to his neck. “It’s sort of like a collar.”
I was going tokillhim. Though when my eyes caught with Jagger’s, there was a gleam there. I cleared my throat and looked at my mother. “It’s a choker with a beautiful sapphire in the center. I’ll show you after we finish eating.”
“I can’t wait.” Mom beamed.
The five of us finished dinner and sat around talking for a while. Mom got tooohandahhat my birthday gift from Jagger, and I was honestly grateful when she said they were going to get going. It wasn’t even eight yet, the time our dinner reservation had been, yet it felt like midnight. I was mentally spent and physically running on empty as I closed the door behind her and Edmund.
“I’m going to go pack my things,” Miles said.
“Okay. I’ll do that in a minute too.”
Jagger was on the couch. The box containing his gift still sat on the coffee table. I gestured to it, standing before his spread legs. “Your gift was really overboard.”
He shrugged. “When I saw it, I knew it was exactly what I wanted to give you.”
I nibbled on my fingernail. “Does it…have any meaning to you?”
The corner of his lip quirked. “Like what?”
I squinted, trying to read him. Did he really not know what I was asking or was he just screwing with me? “Well, what made you want to give me that necklace specifically?”
He grabbed my hands and yanked. I yelped as I fell on top of him. Jagger rolled us so my back was to the couch, and he hovered over me.
“It means you belong to me.”
“So it is…a collar?”
His smile was full of mischief. “Call it whatever you want.”
“Have you always given the women that you were…seeing one of those?”
“Never.”
“Why not?”
“Because I would never expect a woman to belong to me, unless I belonged to her.”
The air rushed from my lungs in the most amazing way. “It’s the best gift I’ve ever received, and I’m not referring to its monetary value.”
Jagger leaned his forehead against mine. “I don’t know what I would’ve done if something had happened to you today.”
Tears filled my eyes. “I’m falling for you, Jagger.”
He kissed my lips. “Then you better catch up, sweetheart, because today made me realize I’m already there.”
CHAPTER 32
Sutton
“It smells delicious in here.”
Jagger tossed his keys on the kitchen counter and came around the island, wrapping his arms around my waist as I stood at the stove. He kissed my neck. “And I wasn’t talking about the food.”
