Meant for You (The Connor Family 3)

Paige looked at her glass, then back up at me. She jutted her chin forward, and I saw that some of that fire I loved was back.

“Because when you dropped me off yesterday, you didn’t seem too... into me. You didn’t even ask to come inside.”

I tried very hard to rein in my smile, but I failed.

“You’re upset that I didn’t come inside?”

“Don’t make fun of me,” she muttered. She seemed vulnerable, and every instinct in me wanted to right whatever was wrong. I put the glass on the counter behind her, then placed my palms on the sides of her face, tilting her head slightly up. I needed to communicate more clearly with her. It wasn’t one of my strengths, but I was going to give it my best shot.

“I didn’t trust myself to be alone with you. I want you so badly that I lose control when I’m around you, and I don’t want to rush things with you.”

“Oooh.”

“Yeah, oh.”

I took the glass out of her hands, putting it on the counter too. I wanted nothing between us for the way I planned to kiss her. She looked up at me as if she was begging to be kissed, and I moved in on her, hooking an arm around her waist to bring her closer, taking her mouth like she belonged to me. Paige moaned against me, which made me explore

even deeper.

“You’re tense,” I muttered when I moved on to pepper kisses on her cheek.

“Not the best day.”

“Want to tell me what happened?”

She sighed, kissing my jaw. “The general manager jerk pulled out of the deal.”

I smiled. “That means you won’t see him again?”

Paige poked my ribs. “Can you at least pretend not to be so happy?”

“Sorry, I can’t.”

“It’s bad form to rejoice at my misery,” she informed me.

“Can’t help it. Why did he back off?”

“Because I didn’t go out with him.”

I straightened up, looking her straight in the eyes. “What?”

“Yep. His secretary brushed me off via e-mail, then I called, and he was oh-so-willing to discuss this again, over dinner. Get this, when I told him that I don’t discuss business in my private time, he actually told me that it wouldn’t be just business. Turned him down again, and he said the deal was dead.” She spoke quickly, as if wanting to get it off her chest.

“That bastard,” I said through gritted teeth. I tried to rein in my anger, because that wasn’t what she needed. “I’m sorry. Does that kind of thing happen often?”

“Used to happen more often. Now I’m better at sniffing them out, but from time to time I’m blindsided.”

“Thank you for trusting me enough to share this with me.” I was proud of how she’d handled the situation. I wished she didn’t have to handle anything, but nothing I could do about that. What I could do, though, was to take her mind off it.

I kissed her again, and Paige responded with so much passion that my dick started to twitch. I wasn’t content with kissing just her mouth. I explored her neck too, kissing just below her ear, licking that spot. She rewarded me with a delicious moan.

“So... now that you know I’m very much into you, you’re going back to push-the-buttons Paige?”

“Hey, I don’t push just anyone’s buttons.”

“Does that make me special?”

“Very much so.”