Confined with the CEO and the Bodyguard by Jordana Pearce

Author:Jordana Pearce [Pearce, Jordana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jordana Pearce

9

Sadie

You’d think I’d be relaxed and content after Beau fucked me within an inch of my life. You’d be wrong. I approach Dakota’s prone body with shaking hands.

Beau knows he’s not the man for me. During his massage earlier this afternoon, we chatted. Or, more accurately, I talked at him. I didn’t mean to, but in the process, I confessed the reason why my one long-term boyfriend had broken up with me.

“He dumped you because you were dancing?” Beau responded incredulously. “Was he stupid?”

His reaction made me laugh. “No. Far from it. He was mad at me because I wasn’t totally honest. I’d told him I was just a waitress at the club because it paid better than other venues, but after a while, he saw how many heels and costumes I’d collected and figured out the truth.”

“And I ask you again, Ms. Banes, was he stupid? The man had a gorgeous woman who could do a private striptease any time he asked. What a damn fool.”

It made me feel better. “It’s great you think that, Beau. I’ve spent my whole life feeling as though I can never measure up to men’s expectations of me. Be sexy, but not like that. I’m always tripping over these unseen expectations. I’m afraid the same thing will happen with Dakota.”

There it is. The truth of things, stated with blunt honesty.

“So that’s how it is, huh?” Beau asked. “You’re hung up on my friend.”

A lump formed in my throat. All I did was nod. Beau, who was facing up on the table at the time, gave me a sympathetic expression.

Then, he tried to pull me onto the table with him.

“No,” I said, and hastily scrambled away. “I don’t do that here. This is my professional space. I can’t mess it up, you know? The way I did...” I broke off. My heart hammered in my chest. “The way I screwed up and got kicked out of my foster home for being a cam girl.”

Beau watched me for a long minute. Then he got up. “Guess we’d better relocate and finish this discussion.”

We promptly did, into the living room, where I poured my heart out in a way that I never have done to anyone before. I’m not sure why I chose to unload to Beau, when Dakota is the one who listens with such kindness. In my head it was a test run, maybe, before I pour my heart out to the man I’m falling in love with.

Or perhaps, I just couldn’t stand being alone with my anger and loneliness anymore.

After several minutes of listening to my teary confessions, Beau had one of his own. He’d already figured out my daddy issues. It didn’t take long before things led to the scene of rough sex that Dakota walked in on.

I’m so going to mess things up with him. He’s tender and kind and supportive—everything I’ve ever wished to find in a man—and I am so fucking terrified of messing it up. The fear flooding through me makes me use more force to compensate for the trembling weakness in my hands.

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