Break of Dawn by Anne Conley

Author:Anne Conley [Conley, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter fourteen

Jackson couldn’t take his eyes off Dawn while she nodded to the driver and slipped into the car as if she were born for this luxury. Of course, she was, wasn’t she? The daughter of a mob-boss in Chicago, she’d run from her family and all the power it held to be her own person.

He admired the hell out of that. It wasn’t like he hadn’t known there was something about her to admire. The way she held herself in the face of the storm, daring it to bury her in its destruction, was a perfect example. She was beautiful when she was wet and dirty in his boat. She was beautiful when she was made up and graceful in his car.

He reached out to touch the hem of her dress as it lay primly above her knee, silky smooth and hiding all manner of secrets. She reacted, her knee moving almost unperceptively, and he glanced up to her face, her eyes wide, daring him to do something.

“Are you nervous about tonight?” she asked innocently, but her eyes twinkled with a mischief he liked. He pressed the palm of his hand against her knee, relishing the smooth warmth of her skin.

“If I said yes, would you kiss me for luck?” He smirked at her despite the impending rejection. She would see it as a move to get her into bed, although she’d been throwing out all the signals. Jackson knew, though, that if he got her into bed, she’d be gone the next morning.

She licked her lips and smiled. “I could be persuaded.”

What the hell? “Then a herd of horses is galloping through my insides. I feel like I could throw up, I’m so nervous.”

Dawn scooted closer and put her hand on his chest, fingering his tie. “Aw, poor baby,” she whispered.

Jackson closed the distance between their faces, tugging her closer with a brutal hand at the nape of her neck.

He kissed those lips he’d been dreaming about, nibbling on them until she opened enough for him to deepen the kiss. He pushed closer, and she made a soft noise in her chest that unfurled something deep inside him.

He wanted more.

His hand on her thigh traveled up her leg to her waist, where he squeezed before traveling higher. He cupped her breast as she heaved a breath under his touch. He knew what he wanted but was afraid to take it. It was almost as if there was an unspoken agreement between them. Her family had found her, and he knew she wouldn’t give him a chance to keep her safe. Some sense of obligation he didn’t want to think about kept her here, but if they had sex, this would be over.

Whatever this was.

But he couldn’t think about that. Right now, all Jackson could think about was showing up to the fundraiser with her mussed under his kisses—a claim of ownership his alpha bad-boy Army past would approve of.

Her tongue curled around his in mutual lust, and as he moved his hand from her pebbled nipple, he stroked her neck, angling her head to let him in.

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