His Contract: Legally Bound, Book 1 by Rebecca Grace Allen

Author:Rebecca Grace Allen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BDSM;submission;dominance;kink;erotic romance;spanking;bondage;older hero;younger heroine;Boston;professor
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

“Another midweek call?” There was mirth in Lilly’s voice. “To what do I owe this honor?”

Jack grinned and rocked back in his chair. He’d missed her fire over the last few days. “Just checking on you.”

“Well, don’t count on me making another dash to your front door. I’m wiped.”

Her words were punctuated with a cough. The deep, guttural kind.

Jack stopped rocking. “Are you sick?”

“No, it’s allergies. And lack of sleep.” She yawned through her next words. “How’s your week going?”

“Fine. My third years are getting anxious. I should tell them to run before it’s too late.” Lilly’s responding laughter bled into another cough. “You sound awful.”

“It’s just a cough. Don’t worry about it,” she said. “Will I see you at the pub on Friday?”

Jack didn’t like how she was passing off his concern, but hoped if something was really wrong, she’d say so. “Yes, but I’ve started wishing I could skip over Fridays and go straight to Saturday.”

She laughed again—a soft giggle he knew would accompany a glance at the floor, her lashes lowered, her cheeks pink.

“Besides,” he added. “I doubt Brady or Patrick would let me out of it at this point.”

“They care about you.”

“True, but that’s not why they started dragging me there.”

Another cough. “It’s not?”

Jack toyed with the zipper on his sweatshirt, flicking it up and down. He might as well tell her. “They were trying to find me a date.”

“Oh.” Lilly paused. “Are they…still trying to find you one?”

She was attempting to sound casual.

She was failing miserably.

“No. I told them to stop.”

It was only partly true. He hadn’t told Brady shit, but Patrick was a different story. Remorse gnawed at him, a hollow feeling in the pit of his gut. She’d told him so much. It didn’t seem right to keep the fact that Patrick knew about them from her any longer.

“Lilly, I—” he began, but she started coughing again, and Jack shelved the conversation for another time. Her well-being was more important than relieving his guilty conscience. “I think you should see a doctor.”

“I’m fine. I promise.”

God, she was stubborn. “Fine, but I’m insisting that you rest. No more work tonight, understand?” He lowered his voice on the last word, making sure she didn’t miss the command in his tone.

She sighed, long and drawn out, but he could hear her smile. “Yes, Sir.”

They said good night, but the sound of her cough pricked at him in a way he couldn’t place, and his unease remained into the days that followed. By Friday morning he found himself needing some kind of confirmation she was feeling better. A quick call wouldn’t hurt. Asking about her health was a perfectly normal thing for a Dominant to do for his submissive.

He started to dial, but stopped himself. Too much weekday contact could lead to her expecting more than he could give. He wrote up their contract, damn it. He should know when to stop the lines from blurring.

When he arrived at the pub that evening, Jack pushed through the throng of bodies and scanned the tables in the back.

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