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So many jobs ran through Luke’s mind, drug dealer, stripper, hitman, all that would fit what little she had said and not one of them was something he could see her doing.
He raised his brows, then watched her as he said, “It must have been a sweet job in order for you to do it.”
A tight smile formed on her lips. She shook her head then looked him straight in the eyes. “Luke... I was an escort...”
He burst out laughing. When she didn’t join, he stopped and looked at her. “You’re not joking, are you?”
Dropping her gaze to her hands, she mumbled, “That’s how I met Brian.”
“Oh... You didn’t come here willingly, did you?”
Tears started rolling down her cheeks as she played with her thumbnail and shook her head.
He reached out, slowly, and cradled the back of her neck in his hand. “Come here...”
He didn’t have to say it twice. She willingly went into his arms. Her body shook with gut wrenching sobs as he wrapped her in his embrace.
“Not now, but when you’re ready, I want to know exactly what he did to you...”
Brit sniffed and pulled back and looked him in the eyes. “Why?”
“So, I can kill him.”
“No! You can’t do that. Not when I just found...”
“Found what Brit?”
Now she knew the apparition upstairs was right. Luke was the best thing to happen to her and she wasn’t giving him up now.
Settling her eyes on his lips, she said, “You...”
“Don’t look at me like that,” he said, feeling himself go hard.
Her eyes bounced back up to his. “Like what?”
“Like this,” he growled, claiming her mouth. For an inane moment he thought he was making a mistake, rushing too fast. But the fact was they had known each other for over a month. And when she opened her mouth under his, that was all he needed to know. She wanted him as much as he did her.
Lowering her onto the mattress, he twined his tongue with hers as he moved his hand to her stomach and stopped. Pulling back, he looked down into her eyes and murmured, “Are you sure you’re ready for this?”
“No, wait...” she wiggled out from under his arm and got up to turn the lamp off. Looking over her shoulder, she asked, “Tree on or off?”
“On,” he said, grabbing the tv remote, he turned it off.
Brit hurried back to the warmth of his arms and hunkered down into the blankets.
“If you’re not ready don’t feel like we have to do this right now...”
As much as she wanted to, she needed to know how he really felt about her. “Would you mind if we just talked?”
Inwardly, Luke groaned. “Not at all. Do you want me to hold you, or would you rather be in your own bed?”
“If it’s not too much trouble, I wouldn’t mind being held.”
Again, he groaned silently.
“No trouble at all.” He would suffer with a case of blue balls from holding her, he could live with it. “So, what do you want to talk about?”
Brit told him about her life, her parents, and what happened to them, including her mother’s sickness and he asked questions as she went along. But when she also told him about her life as an escort he clammed up. But that was all he did. Intune with his body so close to hers, she could feel his fingers trailing along her arm and they never faltered.
