James by Katie Dowe

Author:Katie Dowe [Dowe, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Multicultural & Interracial, african american, urban, Billionaire Tycoons, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Adult Themes, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual, Hearts Desire, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Members From Money, Family & Domestic Life, Mothers-To-Be, Pregnancy, BWWM, BWAM, Asian American
Publisher: Afro Romance Books
Published: 2018-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

“It’s a boxing tournament at the club,” he told her lightly one night in bed. They'd been going out for the past eight months now. She knew he wanted more of a commitment from her but somehow she wasn't able to give it to him yet. She spent a lot of time at his apartment and had finally decided to accept whatever he bought her, which was piling up. She would come by his place to see boxes on the bed and little jewelry boxes on the dresser. No matter how much she protested he didn't stop. She tried to be there for him by going to functions with him where they were photographed. She still went to classes and group meetings but she was getting better and better and knew it had nothing to do with either place, but a lot to do with him. “You don’t have to come if you don’t want to.”

“Why wouldn’t I want to come?” She rose up on her elbows and looked at him. “What are you not telling me?”

His intense dark eyes held hers for a moment and then he shrugged. “I'll be participating Kennedy. It’s something the wives of the members of the club put on to raise money for charity and I'll be fighting.”

“So?”

“You'll be seeing me in a very different light. I will be physically beating up on people. I'm the star of that particular event.”

“I've seen you in action before,” she reminded him.

“You've seen me with you and the other ladies at the classes and you've seen me training at home. This will be different.”

“I'm assuming that it will be televised?”

He nodded.

“So whether I go or not I'll be seeing it.”

He pulled away from her and got off the bed. She watched as he reached for the robe and put it on. “I'm not a violent person,” he told her tightly. “You're going to see me as one if you come and you might look at me differently.”

Kennedy remembered what his sister had said at the party a few months ago. He would do anything to shield her, even stop being who he was and that broke her heart.

“Come here,” she said softly.

He hesitated and she stretched out a hand for him to take. “Please.”

He took it and climbed onto the bed next to her. “I want you to stop it.”

“Stop what?”

“I want you to stop treating me like a piece of finely spun glass, James. I admit that it was my fault. I was fragile and so caught up in my own stuff that I totally leaned on you and you had to be the strong one for both of us. I know the type of man you are now James, and I also know that you would never lift a finger to hurt me.”

“Then why won’t you marry me?” he asked her suddenly.

“What?” She stared at him.

He smiled at her grimly and released her hand to climb off the bed. “I stand around waiting for you to realize that I'm in love with you.

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