The Wedding Vow by Cara Connelly

Author:Cara Connelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

HENRY POURED TWO mugs of coffee, passed one to Adam. “Forget about stealing the Matisse. It’s a foolish risk.”

Adam set the mug on his desk without drinking, paced to the window, and gazed down at the pool. Lucy and Crash romped in the water with John. And Maddie—he swallowed—Maddie lounged on a chaise in a pink thong bikini half the size of a Kleenex.

He made himself look away. “Gio will have the thief by Friday.” And then he—or she—would answer for the crime. To him, not the police.

“It’s not only that, Adam. You’re involved with Maddie now—”

“Maddie’s not a factor.” He raked a hand through his hair, made the ego-shriveling admission. “She’s not involved with me. She just wants to fuck me.”

“Well, well.” Henry snorted a laugh. “I’ve lived to see it. Ninety pounds and she’s taken you down at the knees.”

Adam glanced out the window again. What could he say? He’d finally found a woman who touched him, whose mysteries he wanted to unravel, and she treated him like every other man who’d passed through her life, good for a few fast orgasms before kissing him good-bye.

“Cut her off.”

Adam turned to stare at his friend. “What do you mean?”

“I mean, don’t fuck her anymore. She’s got a hard shell, that one. You won’t break it with your dick.”

Which was exactly what he’d been trying to do.

“You can’t be sure I won’t wear her down.”

“You won’t,” Henry promised. “So don’t give her what she wants until she gives you something in exchange. Stop fucking her.”

“Impossible.” After a second scorching night plundering her body, feeding on the intimacy she allowed only in the dark, all he could think of this morning was getting inside her again.

Henry gave a hopeless shrug.

“Fine.” Desperation made Adam snappish. “If you’re such an expert, advise me.”

“Do what you were doing. Keep her close. Tempt her with the things she loves. Share yourself with her, make her part of your world. It was working, wasn’t it? It got you into her bed.”

“Which you’re telling me was a mistake. Make up your mind.”

“Giving her a taste wasn’t your mistake. Handing her your dick like a schoolboy, that’s where you went astray. Now she’ll lead you around by it.”

“Perhaps I’ll lead her around.”

“The dream of men through the ages.” Henry shook his head. “Make her work for it, Adam. Make her come out from inside that shell to get it. Or send her home now before you fall any deeper in love.”

“JOHN HAS NO skills.” Lucy bounced the ball in her hand as John gazed up at her with clueless devotion. “He can’t catch, or fetch. I won’t even bother with a Frisbee.”

“He can swim.” That from Crash, sprawled on a poolside chaise. Shirtless, he looked lean instead of skinny. Lucy ate him up with her eyes.

“You threw him in,” Maddie grumped. “What choice did he have?”

“Sink or swim, so he swam.” Adam strolled into view. Her gaze skimmed his long length, from the sapphire silk shirt that slipped and slid over his chest, down to his package wrapped in snug faded denim.

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