“Go out to dinner with me tonight.” He demanded it more than asked.
“I can’t. I have to fix my car.”
“Already did it.” He lifted me from his lap, tucked his dick back in his jeans, then stood. “It’s as good as new. Changed the oil, too.”
“What? When?” I asked, shock and gratitude raining through me.
“While you were finishing up in the garage. That little Camry has over a hundred thousand miles. Not safe on all these country roads. We should get you something different.” He flicked through the keyrings hanging on the wall behind his desk. “Want a Camaro?”
The keys dangled from his fingers in front of me. “You’re insane.”
“Insane to want to take care of my sexy Sadie? Hardly.” He tossed the keys at me. I caught them, then instantly tossed them back.
“No, thanks. I like my car.”
“Don’t be crazy. It’s on its last leg.”
“I like it.” I shrugged.
He narrowed his eyes, as if he was trying to read a book in another language, trying to decipher something that didn’t quite make sense.
“Hotrods more your style? I’ve got a Maserati on the back lot you’d look hot as fuck in.”
I laughed out loud this time. “No. Thanks for the offer, Jackson, but the Camry is perfect for me. Small, good on gas—”
“Rusted out.”
“Shut up.” I smacked at his shoulder, and he caught my wrist, pulling me against the hard wall of his chest. The air emptied from my lungs in a soft breath. He was so warm, so comforting and possessive, all in the same touch. He was exactly what I needed. I briefly imagined what it would feel like to give myself to him. To let go of the anxiety and the pressure to prove myself, and just be. All nerves and sensations, tongues and lips, the centuries-old way a man took care of a woman.
I yearned for that with every fiber of my being, and Jackson stirred the craving to life.
“So dinner? We can go back to my place, shower…get ready…” His hands crawled up my skin, landing at my shoulders and kneading gently.
“Mm… That feels so good.” My eyes fell closed.
“I don’t stand a chance of keeping my hands off you tonight if you keep makin’ noises like that.” His roughened voice wrapped around me.
“It’s a good thing I like your hands right where they are.” On me. In me. Demanding and all-consuming.
“Maybe we’ll just have to stay in tonight, then,” he murmured against my ear, sending shockwaves of desire racing through me.
“I like that plan better.” I pushed up on my toes, wrapping my arms around his neck and kissing him again.
His hands went to my thighs, pulling me up around his waist and holding me against him as we kissed.
“You’re gonna be the death of me, sweetheart.”
Chapter Four
JACKSON
“Follow me. Got something I have a feeling you'll like.”
“A feeling, huh?” She glanced up at me, wide, beautiful eyes cracking my soul wide fucking open. What was Sadie doing to me? I felt like a bitch around her, sappy and starry-eyed. This wasn’t me. I was a man in control of myself, strong and steady, even-headed, never to be taken by emotion, but Sadie was something special. The last few weeks she’d eased her way into my everyday life, until I was suddenly looking forward to seeing her in the morning, finding myself working late at night just to catch another glimpse of her.
“Trust me. If I know you at all, you’re gonna want to see this.” I led her through my spacious home, a gutted-out warehouse outfitted with modern clean lines and chrome appeal.
Perfect for a guy like me who spent his life making motors hum to life.
“I’ve seen a lot of sides of you today I never saw coming.”
“And you’re gonna see a lot more.” I shoved open the door to my five-stall garage, one car sitting in the dead center. My pride and joy. The car I’d spent years looking for.
The Blue Devil.
“Oh my God.” Sadie covered her mouth with her hand, her eyes wider than dinner plates as she moved closer. One hand outstretched, her fingertips dusted across the sparkling dark blue paint.
“Gonna put racing stripes on it, just hafta tweak the timing belt and she’s ready to ride.”
“Where did you find her?” Sadie paused, glancing at me from the front of the hood. I instantly thought of taking a long ride up into the mountains with Sadie sitting next to me, laying her over the car and burying my face between her thighs until she exploded all over that pretty hood and christened it with her cum.
“Took me three years of searching. Found every other shade of blue before I found this one. Had to replace the entire engine, but I love fixing it up.”