The Naughty List Bundle - Kylie Adams [310]
His eyes closed briefly; he rubbed a hand over his face. “You said you loved me.”
“I do, but…you have everything. You have a wonderful supportive family and a great job, an education and respectability, a home and money and—”
He came to his feet so quickly, she yelped and nearly tripped over the trailing sheet. Jordan gripped her arms.
“So that’s what you love about me?” he roared, scaring her half silly. “What I can give you?”
She’d never seen Jordan like this. She’d watched him easily subdue a man twice his size. She’d watched him face off with his brothers. She’d seen Jordan angry and frustrated and deliberately provoking, but she’d never seen him in this type of rage. Oddly enough, though he’d startled her, she wasn’t afraid of him.
“No.” She emphasized that with a tiny shake of her head. “I love you,” she said very quietly, choking on her tears, “because of who you are.”
He stepped up to her until she had to tip her head back to see his face, until his bare chest brushed her knuckles clutching the sheet and his feet were braced on either side of hers. He surrounded her and overwhelmed her and then he whispered, “That’s why I love you, too.”
More tears blurred her vision and she rubbed them away, sniffing and gulping and sounded horribly like a frog. “But I—”
“You’re going to really piss me off,” he informed her, “if you put yourself down again.” She hiccuped on a laugh. Jordan raised one hand to gently smooth her cheek. “Weren’t you listening last night, baby? I love you. I’m crazy nuts about you. My whole family knows it, even my mother. Yes I have all the things you mentioned, but I don’t have you. And without you, I’m not going to be happy.”
“Oh Jordan.” She swallowed hard. “You really love me?”
He shook his head. “What did you think? That I just enjoy giving foot rubs?”
She lost what little control she had on her emotions and dropped the sheet again to throw herself into his arms. “I love you so much.”
“I do, you know,” he whispered. “Enjoy rubbing on you, I mean.” She laughed as he cradled her close. He slid his hands down to her backside and lifted her. “Marry me, Georgia. Let me have you. Let me make your family my own and give you mine and we can both be happy.”
“It…it doesn’t feel right to take that much from you.”
He rocked her into his erection. “Does this feel right?” When she nodded, he kissed her gently. “And this?”
“Jordan…”
“And this?”
Georgia had known from the start that he could seduce with just a few whispered words. Now she had firsthand proof.
Epilogue
“HEY DAD!”
Jordan looked up from making salad as Lisa came barreling through the front door, followed closely by Adam and two dogs, one a mixed-breed puppy and the other an ancient dachshund. They’d all been outside playing and smelled of sunshine and fresh crisp air. Between the children laughing and the dogs barking, the house was always filled with excitement.
Jordan knelt down and caught the children to him, hugging them fiercely. Life, he thought, was pretty damn good. “Mommy’s home,” Lisa told him, after a loud wet kiss to his cheek.
Seconds later Georgia strolled in. Under her coat, she wore her workout clothes of leotard and tights, guaranteed to make his blood boil. Seeing the skintight outfits affected him more strongly than her stage costumes had.
Of course, nothing affected him as much as her bare, beautiful skin.
He stood, and with the kids still close to his side and the dogs jumping between them, he gave her a long, thorough kiss. “Hi,” he whispered and she smiled back.
Her smiles, he decided, were downright lethal.
“What time is everyone due to arrive?”
Jordan took her coat from her and hung it on the back of an oak chair. Thanks to Gabe’s handyman skills, the remodelled kitchen had become a favorite hangout for everyone. “You have time to shower, if that’s what you