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His touch on her cheek as he looked into her eyes made her shiver. “I’ve never taken a woman to meet her before. You’re the first.”

“I am?” Kel asked with surprise. “And what does that mean, Ethan?”

“It means I see more in you than I’ve seen in any other woman. And I want you to be aware of what you get when you get me. It’s not all rainbows and lollipops.” He kissed her again.

Kel had no idea what could be wrong with Ethan or his family. Not that it mattered. This was all a game to him anyway. She was sure he was lying about never taking any woman to meet his grandmother before. Anything to get her to let her guard down and let him into her pants.

When he eased the kiss, she said, “I think I can handle anything that comes with you, Ethan.”

His smile told her she could, and she had to remind herself again that the whole thing was a ploy. It wasn’t real. As much as it felt real, it just wasn’t.

The worst part was that she was telling him the truth about him being the first to make her climax. And she hated the fact that the one man she’d found who did that for her was never going to be a permanent fixture in her life.

Ethan and his friends were all frauds. All men with a mission to win a bet.

And damn the hearts they might break along the way!

Chapter 26

Light filled the bedroom as lightning lit up the night and an unexpected boom of thunder made the glass shake in the windows. “Wow, that was close,” Griffin said as he pulled his mouth off Jess’ perky breast.

She hated to admit that she didn’t want him to stop what he’d been doing to her. He was pushing all the right buttons and hitting all the right places, and the damn storm that looked like it was about to hit them wasn’t helping her one bit.

Pulling him back to look at her, Jess said, “You want to let me kiss you for a while?”

With a smile, he nodded and rolled over with her, leaving her on top of him. Pushing his shirt up, she moved her hands all over his tight chest and over the hills of his muscular abs. Then she ran her tongue through the valley that separated those abs.

With his jeans already open, she pushed the elastic of his underwear down, igniting a moan from him that made her smile. What she was about to do was the meanest thing she’d ever done. And she wasn’t particularly proud of herself for doing it.

It had her giving Griffin another shot at doing the right thing—telling her about the bet and telling her he was calling it off. She looked up at him with a nervous expression. “Griff, I’ve never done this before. You promise not to make fun of me if I do it wrong?”

“You’ve never given a blowjob before?” he asked as he leaned up on his elbows.

“No, but I really want to please you. I’d never do this if I didn’t trust you.”

Jess watched his eyes go dark. “Is that so?” It wasn’t the reaction she thought she’d get. He looked a bit pissed. “Then don’t do it, Jess. It’s that simple.”

“Are you saying that I shouldn’t trust you, Griff?” she asked, hoping against all the odds that he was about to stop the insanity.

“Me?” he asked with a high voice. “Me, you can trust. I just mean you should only do what it is you want to do. Not what anyone else tells you to do. You know what I mean?” He was giving her the chance to come clean about what she and her sisters were doing, trying to pin down some unsuspecting men to pay their bills for them.

“I guess you’re right.” She kissed his stomach with a hot kiss then dipped her tongue into his belly button.

He pulled her up by her hair and asked, “Does that mean you still want to do it?”

“Give you the first blowjob I’ve ever given?” she asked. He nodded. “Yes. I want you to be my first. I trust you that much, Griff.”

He didn’t know what the hell to say. He wanted a blowjob, for sure. But he felt like something was wrong. He shouldn’t let her do a thing like that if he wasn’t being real with her. She was kind of innocent and in the end, it might hurt her self-esteem.

When her mouth moved over his cock, he reminded himself that she too was playing a game with him. Why not get the blowjob?

Her mouth was hot as she moved it up and down his cock. He laid back and closed his eyes, letting himself get into it and trying to forget that this was the first time she’d trusted a man enough to be so vulnerable.

The way she used her tongue to run up the underside was surprising him. Then he started to think she was lying about this being her first time to do such a thing. “You’re kind of great at this, Jess.”

“Am I, really, Griff?” she pulled her head up and asked him. “Don’t say it if it’s not true.”