Redemption: A Bodyguard Romance (Tempt Series) by Jenna Hartley

Author:Jenna Hartley [Hartley, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-26T00:00:00+00:00

After an awkward dinner on the patio, Edward excused himself to make a phone call. I’d taken a shower and was leaving my room when Jackson pulled me aside.

“Hey,” he said, his expression and tone soft. “You okay?”

“I—” I blew out a breath. “I don’t know what I am.” I wrapped my arms around myself, scared to meet his gaze when I asked, “How much of our conversation did you hear?”

“Enough.” His expression was hard and unreadable.

Shit. I didn’t even know what to say to that. “Look, Jackson…” I placed my hand on his arm, hoping my touch would calm him. When, really, I needed his touch to ground me.

The fact that I was already falling back into that pattern of thinking scared me. I quickly released him.

He shook his head, and his deadly calm demeanor was unnerving. “I don’t trust him, Sloan. I want him gone.”

“I’m just as eager for him to leave as you are,” I said, on edge from the situation. “My staff are doing everything they can.”

Jackson cast a quick glance to where Edward was pacing the patio. Then he ushered me into the bedroom, locking the door behind us.

“What are you doing?” I hissed, knowing that Edward could return inside at any time. This was reckless.

He smirked. “Having a security meeting.”

“In my bedroom?”

He lifted a shoulder. “You don’t owe Edward anything, least of all an explanation. And before you go back in there—” Jackson’s lips were centimeters from mine, and he bracketed my head with his arms “—let me remind you of a few things.”

“What’s that?” My heart was pounding with adrenaline and anticipation.

His nostrils flared. Maybe it was wrong, but Jackson had always made me feel so…desperate for him. It was nice to see that anguish reflected back at me.

He claimed my mouth, kissing me like a man possessed. I was consumed by him. He was the oxygen I breathed, and I couldn’t get enough.

I wanted him closer. Needed him closer.

He slid one hand up my ribs to cup my breast, while he delved beneath my sundress with the other. “It was my cock buried deep inside you.”

He pressed his thumb against my clit, and I gasped.

“My name.” He plunged a finger inside me, and my body clenched down as if to hold him in place. “That you screamed. My come.” He worked me, his touch rough as his forehead kissed mine. His eyes intent on mine, watching me. Checking in with me. “On your ass this morning.”

I drew in a sharp breath, both from the way he was touching me and his words. From the fact that we might get caught.

“I was your first,” Jackson said, jerking me even closer. “And I will be your last. Your everything. Because that’s what you are to me.”

I gasped. His…what?

Oh shit. He hit that spot that made me lose all reason, and I couldn’t think of anything else.

“That’s it, hayati,” he said in my ear, his voice low, commanding. “Come for me, beautiful. Only me.”

My knees felt weak, and my body took over as my pleasure overrode everything else.

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