Sweet Seduction Surrender (Sweet Seduction, Book 4) by Claire Nicola

Author:Claire, Nicola [Claire, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Nicola Claire
Published: 2013-11-03T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

And I Meant It

I didn't want to wake up. I didn't want my mind to lift from the delightful fog of dreamland and discover Jason wasn't in my bed. Hadn't been here at all. That everything that had happened in the middle of the night was just a fantasy. And reality was the hell I'd lived in for two whole weeks.

I must have moaned in distress, because the bed shifted beside me and a hot body wrapped around my frame, pulling me close, tucking me beneath his, burying his face in the curve of my neck.

"What's wrong?" Jason asked, and if I could have found my voice right then I would have shouted to the world, "Nothing's wrong. You're here".

Instead all I could manage was to cling to him as my body shook with relief and the release of pent up angst.

"Baby," Jason murmured, his voice still thick with sleep. I must have woken him. "It's OK. Everything's OK," he whispered, stroking my side, laying kisses between the words on my skin, holding me tight. Then hitting the nail on the head with, "I'm not going anywhere."

A sound escaped my lips, it was painful. Both to my constricted throat and to my recovering lovelorn heart.

"Kate," Jason murmured softly into my hair. "I'm so sorry," he added. "Can you forgive me?"

I concentrated on breathing for a while, on swallowing past my aching throat, until I could finally voice an answer.

"I've already forgiven you, Jason." And it was the truth.

His whole body jerked, then abruptly relaxed, moulding into mine. "Then what's the matter?" he asked, sounding tentative and confused.

"It's forgetting that I'm having trouble with now," I admitted. "I thought you wouldn't be here when I opened my eyes."

His arms tightened around me and he lay a soft kiss on my temple.

"I'm done fighting this," he whispered. "I'm done letting anyone else fight it either. I'm telling you now, if someone tries to get in our way again, I will bulldoze them. I will trample them into the ground and to hell with the consequences. Why the fuck do you think I quit ASI?"

I sat up slightly to look down at him, to get a better idea of what he was feeling by the expression on his face. I thought he'd resigned because he was angry, a knee jerk reaction to Nick interfering in our lives. Was there more to it than that?

He reached up and pushed my hair back off my face so he could see my eyes. His hand cupped the side of my head as he gazed up intently at me. Everything Jason did was intense. And I loved it. And I'd missed it. Never again.

"He can't hold my job over my head anymore," he explained and my stomach plummeted.

"Tell me," I demanded, mind hardening but my voice belying that emotion with the way it quaked. "Did Nick threaten you with your position at ASI to get you to comply?"

Jason stared at me for so long that I thought he'd decided not to answer.

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