Love Me Again by Jaci Burton

Author:Jaci Burton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2017-04-06T15:52:28+00:00

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DEACON ATE THE last slice of pizza, though he offered it to Hazel, who, despite saying she’d eaten on the plane, had gone pretty much slice for slice with him until the last one.

They sat at the kitchen table, and he got to hear all about Hazel’s trip, which mostly consisted of campaign stops through the Dallas and Austin areas. At least the nanny had taken her to Six Flags, so she’d had a little fun while she was down there.

Deacon had always known Tom Simmons to be an ambitious sonofabitch with political aspirations, but to use his own daughter as a political tool was the lowest thing the man could ever do. The least he could have done was take off a couple of hours to watch a movie with her. Hell, he could have even taken media with him to show what a family man he was. But no, he couldn’t even spare the time to do that.

The dick.

But now Deacon and Loretta and Hazel were all curled up on the sofa, laughing at the latest animated movie that Hazel had chosen. Deacon thought it was a great movie, and when Hazel fell asleep halfway through, he and Loretta wound up watching the rest of it.

At the end, he scooped Hazel up into his arms and carried her into the bedroom, then slipped out so Loretta could get her out of her clothes and into her pajamas. He went into the kitchen and grabbed a glass of ice water.

“She’s really out,” Loretta said a few minutes later when she resurfaced. “She didn’t even wake up when I changed her clothes.”

“Travel will do that to a kid.”

“I guess so. Thanks for being so understanding about tonight. And for the pizza and movie night. It’s one of her favorite things to do.”

“Hey, it’s one of my favorite things to do.”

Loretta laughed. “Tonight turned out better than I expected it to.”

Deacon arched a brow. “Oh, so you thought dinner alone with me was going to be shit, but pizza and a movie was okay?”

“No, that’s not what I meant. I had a rough day. You made it a good night despite all the roadblocks. And I appreciate it. Most guys would have bailed once Hazel showed up.”

He leveled a look at her. “I’m not most guys, Loretta.”

Her gaze never wavered. “No, you’re not.”

He laid his water glass on the kitchen counter and wrapped his arm around her waist, tugging her against him. She came willingly, and he had to admit, this had been what he’d thought about ever since he drove over here tonight. Touching her, feeling her body next to his, and putting his mouth on hers.

And when their lips met, it was a hot fusion of instantaneous passion, an explosion of need and want as Loretta’s hands crept up and over his shoulders, her nails digging in.

Oh, hell yeah. He wanted a lot more than this, more tangling of tongues and her winding her sweet legs around his.

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