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He raised his head to look at her. “And you shouldn’t either.”

“What does that mean?” she asked him as she was utterly confused. It was the first time she’d given a blowjob; she wasn’t lying about that.

“I’m saying that if you’ve done this before, you can just say it. You can be truthful about anything with me, Jess. That’s all I’m saying. Anything at all, you can confide in me.” He gave her another chance to come clean and waited to see if she’d take his bait.

“I’m being truthful with you about this. Is there anything you want to be truthful with me about?” She was searching his eyes for any sign he was ready to let her in on what he was really doing.

She found only a certain hardness there that hadn’t been there before. Jess was pretty sure it was because he was mad about what he’d overheard earlier that day.

“All I’m saying is you’re making the moves of a woman who’s done this a time or two,” he said.

“Well, I haven’t. Should I stop?” she asked him.

He laid his head back and wondered what the hell he was doing to himself. Sabotaging a blowjob that looked as if it might be a pretty great experience for him. “No, go for it.”

“Fuck! Don’t be so damn enthused, Griffin!”

“You’re mad now?” he asked as he lifted his head back up.

By the pink color of her cheeks, he could see she was mad. And when she got off the bed and pulled her bra back to cover her tit, he knew the little make out session was over.

Then it hit him that he still needed her. He still needed her to win the bet, and he needed to make her think he was looking at her as marriage material.

Changing his actions, he sat up and pulled her into his arms as he laid back with her. “Don’t,” she said with a muffled voice as he held her close to his chest.

“I’m sorry, baby,” he cooed. “It’s just that I had something I wanted to ask you to do with me this weekend and I’m kind of afraid to let you know more about me and those I come from.”

“Huh?” Jess asked as she pulled her head off his chest and looked at him.

“I want to take you home to Montana this weekend to meet my family. And I’m afraid of what you’ll think of them and the things we all do,” he said, looking sheepish.

“You want to introduce me to your family?” she asked, feeling kind of shocked he’d bring his family into his sinful bet.

“I do,” he said, then ran his hands through her hair. “But I’ve never taken anyone home before. I’m nervous about it. And about how you’ll like them.”

Jess was unsure what to say. “Why would you be nervous about that? You see where I come from. What do you have to be embarrassed about?”

“Just some things,” he said with a frown. “Would you like to spend this weekend with me at our ranch in Montana, baby?”

“Um, maybe I should ask Kel.” Jess chewed her lip.

Griffin took her face in his hands. “You’re plenty old enough to make this decision on your own, baby. Now tell me, what it is you want to do?”

“I’d like to see your ranch. I’ve never been up that way before.”

“So you’ll make me happy and come with me then?” he asked with a grin.

“I guess so.” Jess wasn’t sure what Kel and Cait would think about her accepting his offer. But she wanted to go for some odd reason.

Another loud blast of thunder that accompanied a flash of lightning had them holding each other tightly.

Both were a little afraid of what it was they were feeling.

Chapter 27

Phoenix looked down at Cait and couldn’t believe the young woman was resorting to such tactics to get a husband to pay off her debts. She just simply didn’t seem the type.