Her 24-Hour Protector(62)

Jenna grasped his wrists, yanked him down onto the bed and straddled him, hair falling wild over her shoulders. His eyes grew smoky, lids lowering as she sunk down onto his erection like a hot, wet glove, moving her hips until he groaned, grabbed her buttocks hard with powerful hands. He was still rock-hard from the elevator, and she was heating, tingling, for release all over again.

And with sudden shock, Jenna came, an explosion of muscular contractions that seized her body with glorious, gut-punching power. Lex couldn’t hold back a second longer. He swung her roughly around onto all fours, took her from behind, squeezing her breasts, pulling her into his pelvis as he thrust and she arched her back, lustrous hair dark against creamy skin.

Lex’s world shifted as he came with such fierce release that it shattered his body and mind, obliterating everything he’d just learned upstairs, and they fell back, breathless, sated. Lex held her, stroking her hair, his body still shimmering with latent energy, knowing, at the same time, that he’d never be the same. He’d found truth. In more ways than one. And not in the way he’d expected. Because the real truth lay right here in his arms, and so did his future—if he played it all right. And he realized, with irony, that while he’d come to Vegas seeking his past, instead he’d found the road that led ahead. Perhaps that’s what he’d wanted all along.

Jenna rolled onto her side and traced her fingers over his abs, down the thick line of hair that ran to his groin, and she smiled wickedly as he began to swell again in front of her eyes.

“Careful,” he whispered.

“Why?” she tickled the backs of her nails a little lower.

“Because I’m not done with you yet.”

Jenna moved her hand to his groin, took hold of him, slid her knee up over his legs. Rolling closer, she moved her lips close to his, breasts pressing against his chest. “Did you mean it, Lex?” she murmured against his mouth.

“Mean what?”

She inhaled sharply as she felt him enter her.

“When…you said—” her voice came out thick, breathy as he moved, slow strokes that made her eyes roll back into her head “—that…you loved me? Was it true?”

He swung himself on top of her, deepened his thrust. She couldn’t concentrate.

“Jenna—” his voice was husky “—you are the one thing in my life right now that is true.”

“Boy, you’re one sorry puppy, Lex Duncan, considering…ah—” He thrust hard and she arched. He came quickly. And they sank back, glowing with perspiration.

“Yes,” he whispered up to the ceiling in the growing dark. “It is true.”

He did love her.

He felt her hand slip into his, squeeze, and Lex’s heart swelled to busting point.



“It’s this,” Lex said, tilting his chin toward the skyline. “This has got to be what people love about this place.” They were sitting immersed in a hot tub full of bubbles, drinking from champagne flutes, looking out the floor-to-ceiling window at the Vegas night.

“Making love?” she said with a smile, hair piled loosely up on her head, tendrils wet, skin flushed.

He slanted his eyes to hers. “No, the fact that magic can happen,” he whispered.

She studied him in silence. “What happened to you today, Lex?”

“What makes you think anything happened?

“You’re…different. I don’t know how to describe it. Intense. Edgy. Alive in a way that almost feels…dangerous.”

His features turned serious. He trailed his fingers along her collarbone. “I found out who my father was today, Jenna,” he said softly.

“What?”

He turned to look out over the view again, silent. “I was also informed that Sara Duncan was not my real mother.”

She sat up. “Lex?”

He smiled ruefully. “You’re so beautiful, Jenna.” He glanced up into her eyes. “Do you think we could make it work? Do you think we could try?”

Emotion burned fast and sharp into her eyes. “Is…is this a proposal of some kind?” she whispered.

“Do you think you could love me, Jenna?”

She looked at him for several long moments, and his eyes grew worried.

“I think,” she whispered, “that I fell in love with you the first time I saw you on—”

“Please, do not say on that god-awful auction stage.”

“No, Lex, on that drought-brown football field. With your boys. I saw a leader, a man with an incredibly strong moral compass. And…” Emotion tightened her throat. “You made me think I…might want a family of my own one day. I’d never thought that before. You made me want more, Lex, something very different to what I have.”