Branded (Covington Security Book 5) by Dr. Rebecca Sharp

Author:Dr. Rebecca Sharp [Sharp, Dr. Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

JACKSON

“You have a smile on your face.”

My head snapped up from my laptop though I hadn’t been focused on the screen; I’d been thinking about Izzy.

“No, I don’t.” I glared at Reed.

He smirked. “Yes, you do.”

I pulled my computer onto my lap and spun the desk chair away from Reed and his damned cheeky smile. We were sitting in Dex’s office, though the co-owner of Covington Security had been called to his brother’s office for an urgent meeting.

Speaking of, I was going to have some hard words with Ace about sticking me with the probie, especially if he was looking to bring on more guys to the team from Hazard’s tactical school. One cocky probie was enough for me.

“That confidence is going to get you in trouble,” I warned him.

“Oh, it already does.” I heard his laugh. “And it’s the kind of trouble that results in a smile just like yours.”

I rolled my eyes but didn’t engage further.

So what if I was smiling? Christ, it felt like I had a million reasons to smile for everything except this fucking case. This case was like a loose string that I just kept tugging and tugging and tugging, but all it did was unravel into a longer and longer lead to nowhere.

“Well, I’m just happy for you, man,” Reed went on. “And happy to be the only bachelor in the office.”

I grunted. He was welcome to the title.

My bachelor status had been preservation not an advertisement. I wasn’t sad to see it go especially when I thought about what replaced it. Who replaced it.

“How’s Isla doing?”

Instantly, the image of her face when I slid inside her from behind this morning, slowly fucking her as she bent over her worktable, flashed like lightning through my mind.

We’d had a weekend of mind-blowing sex. World-fucking-blowing sex.

After the swing, I couldn’t get enough and neither could she. Months of pent-up need erupted like a burst pipe, and I couldn’t stop myself from taking her at every turn. In the morning. At lunch. Eating her for dessert and then letting her ride me into oblivion. It was like we’d entered into an erotic bubble on Friday that neither of us wanted to risk popping by actually talking about the sex and what it meant for us.

Fuck.

For the first time in my life, I was afraid.

I was afraid that as soon as we talked about it, she would retreat behind the words: hormones and pregnancy, and I’d lose my shot with her as quickly as she’d consumed me. So instead, my brilliant plan involved a million other ways to keep my mouth busy proving to her that I didn’t want her just because of our baby. That I wanted our baby and I wanted her. And I was determined to keep them both.

“Great,” I said hoarsely and rose with a rough exhale, adjusting my semi in my pants. “Where the hell is Dex—”

The man I was looking for opened the door, his expression somber as Dante and Roc filed inside with Ace trailing behind them, his bleak expression mirroring Dex’s.

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