“What?” Keely swiped the phone and scrolled down. “No, no, no, no! You sent this to everyone?
Including… Omigod, Casey and Renner and Kent?”
“Who are Casey and Renner and Kent?”
“Some guys I’ve been—”
Jack boxed her against her the car with his body, forcing her undivided attention. “You will not f**k around on me, ever, understand? No calling other guys. No flirting with other guys. No kissing other guys.
No touching other guys. As far as the world is concerned, we are engaged for real, and you will not embarrass me, or yourself, by acting any way other than wildly in love with me, got it?”
Her gaze slid to his mouth and she licked her lips.
Fuck. He’d spent way too many hours thinking about what he’d do if that tempting mouth of hers was ever close to his again. If he lowered his head he could taste the juicy sweetness of those full red lips as he swallowed her surprised moan…
The phone in his hand buzzed with a text message.
Dammit all to hell. “I said got it?”
“Uh-huh.” She kept peering at him with those enormous midnight blue eyes.
“Nothing to say?” he prompted.
“Just one thing.”
“What?”
“Possessive much?”
You don’t know the half of it. Jack permitted a feral smile. “Better learn that early on.” He pushed back and tucked the phone in her front shirt pocket. “Go upstairs and make your calls. I’ll be right up.”
Keely sauntered away.
Jack dug his cell phone out and brought up the engagement picture he’d forwarded to himself. It exemplified a couple who looked wildly in love. He reworded the text message and hit send all.
No going back now.
Three hours later, Jack punched his lace pillow for the millionth time. He could not get comfortable in this stupid, lumpy, midget-sized bed.
You can’t get comfortable because you’ve got a hard-on the size of a Louisville Slugger.
He stared at the rows of stuffed animals lining the bookshelves. Creepy damn things. Then he gazed at the ceiling, wide-awake.
He’d spent the last two hours trying not to gawk at Keely’s legs. Or her ass. Or her tits. Or the little slice of her belly that teased where her booty shorts gapped in the front. Or where the bottom curve of her butt cheeks peeked out in the back.
What kind of man got hard from a pair of flannel shorts?
He did, evidently. She hadn’t been deliberately teasing him either. If Keely had slunk out of her bedroom in a skimpy Victoria’s Secret getup, he wouldn’t have reacted.
Right. Keely McKay could wear sackcloth and ashes and he’d be lusting after her.
She’d all but ignored him as she cleaned up the kitchen. Tidied up the living room. She’d handed him the remote to an older model TV. Talk about horrified—no big screen/flat screen and no cable. That’d change first thing tomorrow.
Then Keely bid him goodnight. At ten-thirty. Jack didn’t know what to do with himself. He could crack open his laptop, but work didn’t appeal to him. Wandering down to the local bar alone didn’t sound like fun. Watching TV was out. He set up his coffeemaker. Then he’d gone to bed.
And there he lay with his dick as rigid as rebar.
Every time he thought of something nonsexual, such as his conversation with Carter—which was little more than profanity laced threats. Or his conversation with Justin—which was little more than the accusation Jack had f**ked up Justin’s relationship with Keely just so Jack could have her—the throbbing in his groin abated somewhat.
Somewhat.
But then Keely, the sexy, sassy, sultry, sweet-smelling cowgirl from hell would float into his mind’s eye again and he’d be back to square one. Hard, horny. Hating he had no outlet.
Wrong. There’s no shame in beating off. No different than any other night in your pathetic sex life.
True. So Jack closed his eyes, spread his legs and took himself in hand. He imagined Keely easing that yellow tank top up, revealing the creamy expanse of her taut belly. In his fantasy, her belly button was pierced and a little silver cowbell jangled with every twitch of her curvy hips.
He stroked his c**k from root to tip.
She tossed the tank top and cupped her tits. They were on the small side, but Jack wasn’t a tit man anyway. Her thumbs drew circles around the rosy ni**les, brushing the tips until they puckered. She moaned and slid her palms down her belly, beneath the waistband of the flannel shorts, swinging her hips with gusto. Her long black hair whipped from side to side as she shimmied the shorts off. Her pu**y was shaved except for a tiny strip of black hair. She traced the line of her slit with a slender finger, parting the delicate pink lips.
Oh f**k yeah. His hand on his c**k moved faster.
The phantom image of Keely drifted forward, her come-hither stare locked on the movement of his fist as he beat off. She placed her left foot on the footboard, giving him an unobstructed view of her glistening sex. She thrust her middle finger into her cunt and moaned softly as she pumped it in and out.
Showing him the wetness, biting her lip as she pleasured herself in front of him.
When she started grinding the heel of her hand into her clit and pinching her nipple, the slap slap slap of Jack working his c**k became louder. Keely pulled her fingers from her juicy sex and sucked them into her wicked mouth.
Jack lost it, furiously pulling on his c**k until his release spurted out and coated his hand.
After he’d caught his breath, he opened his eyes. Alone in his room, whacking off to an illusion again.
But damn, what an illusion.
What if it weren’t? Once the news of their engagement spread, everyone would assume they were sleeping together. What if he could have Keely as his sexual playmate for a little while?
Right. Keely would totally go for that. Never mind the fact they couldn’t stand each other. And at least in his delusion Keely hadn’t spoken and ruined it, like he was sure she would in real life.
No. It was better to have the fantasy in this case.
Mind made up, Jack finally relaxed enough to drift toward sleep.
At seven o’clock an unfamiliar screeching whir woke Keely. She jumped out of bed in her underwear and a camisole and raced into the kitchen, figuring an appliance had exploded. But the noise was from some fancy-ass coffee pot. Beans were grinding, steam billowed, water hissed and popped. A loud click and the aroma of hot, fresh coffee rolled out.
Keely’s mouth watered.
“A thing of beauty, isn’t it?”
Jack’s deep, scratchy morning voice sent a pleasant tingle down her spine.