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Dirty things.
Of course, Charlee had been as skeptical as me, and for the rest of the day I resisted texting him something like, “Are you serious?” I didn’t want to get my hopes up about keeping the inlet, but I also couldn’t help it. I loved that property, and maybe part of the reason I’d lost my mind a bit was because I had started to think of it as mine, but really, it wasn’t. I had it on loan, of sorts, from the Trust.
Either way, I was keeping it. No man, even one with Jaxon’s brand of sex appeal, would be worth letting it slip through my fingers. I parked, marveling at how much land Jax’s rental property had managed to obtain. In most places around the lake, houses had sprung up so close together, for lakefront space, that seeing this much property was rare.
Though the house was a bit outdated, definitely relegated to someone’s summer home and rentals, the wraparound deck was pretty sweet. Someday I’d have enough in my bank account to get a place like this of my own, right on the lake. In the meantime, I had the inlet.
And planned to keep it.
Walking around to the back deck and shuddering at the sight of the dock—I must have looked a fright climbing up there soaking wet—I wasn’t surprised to see Jaxon, coffee in hand. His Ranger ears probably heard my car a half mile away. Though he didn’t talk much about his time in the military, his training oozed from every pore.
It was actually kinda sexy, and scary, at the same time.
“Good morning, sunshine.”
I hated that I liked him giving me a nickname.
“Sunshine? Really?”
I climbed the stairs, taking the coffee he offered.
“It fits. You know, the way you’re always smiling at me.”
Apparently, Jaxon got a kick out of his own joke. Me? Not so much. “I would smile more if you...” If he what? What exactly was my beef with the guy now that he wasn’t purchasing the property?
“If I?”
“Weren’t so cocky.”
“Ahh, so that’s my problem, is it?”
“Among other things, yes.”
“I thought you’d be in a better mood. Our deal and all.”
Sitting, putting my laptop on the table next to me, I dove right in. “Actually, I did want to talk to you about that before getting to work.”
“Shoot.”
He even sat sexy. Was that a thing?
“So you are serious about this?”
“If a man’s word isn’t trustworthy, he’s nothing.”
“Is that a yes?” I pressed.
His smile would not disarm me. “Yes, it is.”
“That seems awfully...reckless of you. And you don’t strike me as a reckless man.”
Jaxon thought about that. For long enough that I started to think he wouldn’t answer.
“Put your coffee down,” he said, as if I were one of his men to be ordered about. But dammed if I didn’t listen to him, his gaze was so steadfast and intense.
“Now come here.”
Fuck. That sounded almost...sensual.
