I turned back to the sink. “Is she okay?”
“Sorchais shaken up, but she’ll be fine. I left her with her friend.”
Honestly, what I said next I was fully intendingnotto say. But it was like someone else possessed me as I whirled on him. “Have you still been fucking her this whole time?”
Jared’s eyebrows rose as his jaw clenched with anger. He pushed off the doorjamb and took a step closer. “Excuse me?”
I flushed with embarrassment and scrambled to sound cooler and unaffected now that I’d blurted out my fear. “It’s just—it looks kind of bad. We agreed to two months fidelity to sell the lie.”
“Aye.” His voice was gruff as his eyes hardened. “We did. Are you telling me you think I broke my promise?”
Perhaps I should have been more careful, considering he was clearly angered by my questioning, but I pushed, “I just think it’s odd that of all the people your supposed ex could call, she called you to come running to her rescue.”
“We’re friends,” he bit out.
Friends. Right. Something like crushing disappointment cut through my hurt. Why would I think Jared was any different from any other man? Of course he couldn’t keep it in his pants. “Look, you’re a grown-ass adult, you can do what you want. But while we’re in this together”—I gestured between us—“a heads-up would be nice, that’s all.”
“A heads-up?”
“That you’re fucking other women!” I spat it out with the hurt and fury I felt, and immediately cursed myself for the lack of control.
Jared froze, his expression blanking. “Fucking other women?” he asked so calmly, I probably should have heeded it as a warning.
I shrugged, crossing my arms over my chest as if I didn’t care either way.
“Fucking other women!” he yelled suddenly and I startled, my arms dropping to my sides as Jared glowered at me. “When would I be fucking other women, Allegra? We had an agreement.” He took a step toward me. “No fucking anyone for two months, right? So no, I didn’t fuck Sorcha. I haven’t fucked her since we made our deal! I haven’t wanted to fuck her or any woman since we married because all I can think about is how much I want to fuck my wife!”
I sucked in a breath at his angry confession, my chest heaving, mirroring his own sudden breathlessness.
My skin flushed hot at the dark, hungry look he threw my way. No one had ever stared at me with such abject longing and desire.
I whispered his name.
His nostrils flared. “Fuck it,” he snarled as he charged me. He hauled me against his body as his lips crashed down over mine.
Gasping in shock, already aroused by our anger, I returned his hungry, biting kiss. I moaned into Jared’s mouth, licking at his tongue. One hand squeezed my hip, while his other tightened around my nape as he groaned with a need that rumbled down my throat and hardened my nipples. Then we were moving until the kitchen table hit my ass.
He kissed me so hard, so deep, I was panting for breath by the time he released me. The expression on his face wasn’t soft or tender. Every feature was taut with need and he looked almost menacing with it. My clit throbbed in reaction as he grabbed the hem of my tank and yanked it up and over my head. Then my bra was unclipped and off, thrown over his shoulder. Jared’s green eyes turned molten as he took my breasts in his big, calloused palms and caressed me.
“Jared,” I moaned, arching into his touch.
He released me but only to lift me with ease onto the kitchen table.
“Jared?”
Eyes holding mine, he tugged down my shorts and underwear in one sweep. I gasped at the sensation of the wooden table beneath my naked ass as Jared gripped my thighs, spread them, and hooked my legs over his shoulders. “Jared!”
His head disappeared between my thighs.
His beard bristled deliciously against my skin as his tongue touched me.
“Oh my God!”
Jared lifted his head just enough to growl, “The first night you sat at this table with me, this is what I wanted to do. You’re going to come on my tongue, Mrs. McCulloch. Then you’re going to come around my cock.”
My belly flooded with lust, the wet rushing between my legs. “Yes, yes.” I nodded frantically, wanting all of that.
Triumph hardened Jared’s features before he bowed his head again. As he licked his way up to my clit, I groaned as sensation spiked down all four limbs. Arousal tightened in exquisite need low in my belly and my heart pounded in my ears. “Don’t stop,” I pleaded.
