Monk Paletti: Commanding Love by Mallory Monroe

Author:Mallory Monroe [Monroe, Mallory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Brook Publishing
Published: 2020-10-28T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Ashley was in the backseat of the SUV, leaned against Monk and holding his hand, as they drove up the private street in Jersey that led to Monk’s house. He owned the street. He owned that entire area. But what Ashley had already forgotten was just how dark and gloomy it was around his place. Just how downright depressing.

And his house, with its peeling paint and high weeds surrounding it, and its general state of dilapidation, looked even gloomier as the SUV drove up the long driveway and stopped the garages. A moment of sheer terror overtook Ashley when that SUV stopped. She had packed her bags and left her family in Maine. She had flown back to Jersey with Monk as if it was the most wonderful thing in the world. But now the truth was setting in. She was going to live here. She was going to be here. And she was going to be here alone most of the time when Monk was out and about handling family business. A happy-go-lucky person like her was going to live in this gloomy hellhole? She looked at Monk.

Monk’s driver had gotten out and opened his door, and from the light inside of the vehicle he could see the terror in her eyes. She was already having second thoughts. So was he. How could he expect a girl like her to want to live a life like this? But it was done now. As far as he was concerned, there was no turning back.

He got out of the SUV and reached out his hand to Ashley. Ashley hesitated, but then she got out too. And with her hand in his hand, they walked slowly toward his front door.

Monk put in the code that unlocked his door and they walked into a home bursting with light and warmth and beauty. Monk had it all cleaned back up after that craziness with DeGarno and it looked back to normal again. And just that fast Ashley relaxed again. She was with Monk. And he was all about the inside man. The outside might not look all that inviting. But inside where it counted? It was beautiful.

After his driver sat Ashley’s luggage in the foyer behind them, and closed the door behind them, Ashley smiled. They had eaten on the plane ride over, so there was no need for preparing any meals. Except, Monk thought, the one he was about to prepare all over Ashley. He was so horny that he found himself looking at her so lustfully that she saw it in his now-hooded eyes.

And she smiled. Satisfying men in bed had always been a part of her identity. She hated it, but it was so entrenched in her now that she didn’t know how not to embrace it. So she embraced it fully with Monk too.

“I’ll race you upstairs,” she said to him.

Monk smiled. Was she for real? “Race me?”

He realized she was for real when she took off running up his winding staircase.

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