He was standing in the family room looking delicious and sexy.
“I’m still on you, whether you want me to be or not.”
“You should have called Scrappy,” I said. “Or at least warned me you were coming.”
He shrugged. “You wanted a time out.”
“Yeah, from you.”
“Time out means you should go to your room.”
I let out a frustrated squeal. “Now you’re just being a dick.”
He smiled slowly. “You want a time out, baby, you’re doin’ it with me close.”
“I don’t want to talk to you.”
“Did I say you gotta talk to me?”
“Good,” I snipped, grabbing a wine glass, and filling it to the brim.
“You’re gorgeous when you’re pissed. You know that?”
I sipped my wine. “I’m ignoring you.”
He stepped up to the island and leaned across it. “I love you.”
I rolled my eyes and turned my back on him. Mostly, because if I continued to stare into his beautiful eyes, I’d fold and kneel before him, begging for his dick. Hearing the creak of his leather, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
“I love you,” he whispered.
“Stop it,” I growled, keeping my eyes closed.
I let out a squeak when his face was suddenly pressed against my crotch, my eyes flying open as I almost dropped my wine glass. I set it down and slid my hand into his hair. “What are you doing?”
He was on his knees, grinning up at me as he reached for my zipper.
“I’m not talking to you,” I reminded him.
“This doesn’t require talking,” he pointed out.
“Jasper, this isn’t solving anything.”
“Talk or fuck, baby. Your choice.”
“Neither.”
He sighed, standing, and settling his hands on the island, pinning me in. “Do you understand, at all, where I’m coming from?”
“Excuse me for not wanting you to be beaten into a vegetative state.”
“So, you have no faith in my ability to hold my own?”
“Have you met my dad?” I retorted. “He’s got four inches and thirty pounds of muscle on you. Not to mention Stoney.”
“And you think your dad’s gonna let it go so far that I end up a vegetable?” he challenged. “He wants me in his club, not in a body bag. Did your brother end up a vegetable? I’ve got twenty pounds and two inches on him.”
I wrinkled my nose. “They took it easy on Ori.”
