“If you don’t want this,” I breathed against her lips. “Tell me to stop. If you don’t want this-“

She kissed me. Moaning in her throat, curling against me like a cat, she kissed me like she was dying. I bent, lifting her slight weight in my arms, touching as much of her body with mine as I could while standing and dressed.

That was a problem, we should be naked and lying down.

I turned just enough to push her up against the wall and she buried her fingers in my hair, pulling me harder against her. She tilted my head the way she wanted and licked at my lips, sucking at my tongue.

Usually, a first kiss was an awkward thing. Something you had to ease into. But this… her?

I’d never been fucked like this, much less kissed. An endless fucking kiss. I opened my mouth and pressed my dick against her belly, so soft beneath the robe.

All of her so soft. But beneath that softness was a strength steel could not match. And this kiss, it was hers. She did with me what she wanted.

Her body arched against me, one long elegant bow from my dick to my head. Her legs were restless and I grabbed her knee, pulling it up around my hip. The robe fell open… clever robe, I was glad it was on my side, and I touched the sweet skin of her leg. Her knee, her thigh.

“Yes,” she moaned, lifting for me. Parting for me and I could feel the heat of her against my fingers.

“Mom?”

Katie. Shit.

She went statue still in my arms. So still she wasn’t even breathing. I set her down and made sure she was solid on her own two feet before stepping back. Giving her the room she needed to get her breath back. Compose herself.

That spot on her neck I’d wanted so badly to suck, where her heart pounded beneath her skin it was flushed red. Embarrassment, I wondered. Or desire?

Both, probably.

“I have to go,” she whispered.

“Of course.”

“Thank you.”

“Yeah,” I laughed. “Trust me. My pleasure.”

The next morning, Doug from the hardware store delivered the tiller and chain saw.

I met him by the curb and helped him unload.

“I’ll take them around back for you,” Doug said, his bland face alight with morbid curiosity.

“I got it,” I said. I was not bringing this asshole into the house. “Thanks, though.”

Doug peered over my shoulder. “God, look at her,” he said and I spun to see all the O’Neill women standing on the porch, glaring at us.

The only thing missing was a shotgun in Katie’s hands.

“How did someone so beautiful get to be so mean?” Doug asked.

Something inside of me leaped, snarled, wanted to tear this guy apart for even looking at Savannah with that hate and ownership in his eyes, as though he knew everything there was to know about the woman.

“You know, in my experience, men hate a beautiful woman for only one reason,” I said.

“What’s that?”

“The woman is too good for them and they know it.”

It took him a second to realize I’d insulted him and then his eyes narrowed. “They’re trash. Every one of them, from the grandma on down. Why don’t you ask Savannah who Katie’s father is, huh?”

Yeah. That’s it. I’m knocking your teeth in.

I reached out to curl my hand in the neck of Doug’s shirt.

“There a problem here?” Margot’s voice rang out like steel on steel behind me and I dropped Doug’s shirt.

“Nope,” I said, looking Doug square in the eye. “Doug was just leaving. Don’t worry about delivering that sod. Give me a call and I’ll come get it.”

Doug grumbled, cast one more dark look over his shoulder, and finally got back in his truck and drove away, a plume of dust behind him.

I released the brake on the tiller and picked up the chain saw before turning. Margot stared daggers at me as Savannah stepped off the porch behind her.

Savannah lifted her hand to shield her eyes from the sun. “What’s going on?” she asked.

Last night had been a mistake on a million different levels. Fucking a woman and lying to her was a line I never thought I’d come close to and if she didn’t stop us last night I would have crossed it. I needed to find out where Vanessa was or where the gems were before I did something I would regret.

Looking for the safe had gotten me nowhere. It was time to throw some cards on the table and see what these two had.

“According to Doug and his mother, the gossip around town is that some kid named Garrett is behind the break-in.”

Savannah and Margot shared a loaded look. “That’s what we thought,” Savannah said. “Juliette is on it.”

“He also said that Garrett is looking for a wall safe. Rumor has it you guys are hiding gems.”

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