With a last thrust, he followed her over the edge, giving a roar as he pinned her against the shower wall, his cock jerking deep inside her pussy.
Afterward, as hot as the sex had been—had it ever been hotter?—he still felt unsettled. He cleaned up quickly and left the steamy shower to allow Eva to finish her morning routine. When he’d dressed, he stood frowning at his own reflection in the mirror.
He still looked the same, even if everything inside of him was in a tailspin.
“I’ve got to run,” Eva said, hurrying out of the bathroom in a breathless rush. “Thank you for a perfect morning.”
She stood on tiptoe to press a quick kiss to his lips, and he walked her to the door. Afterward, as he made his way to work, his thoughts swam.
For the first time in days, he missed Antonio. Jack had always been able to talk to his best friend about the things he couldn’t figure out on his own. He wished he could talk to him about these strange feelings for Eva. But of course, even if Antonio were alive, he couldn’t very well discuss the arrangement he had with the man’s sister.
Antonio had been far from violent, but Jack couldn’t imagine Antonio’s answer to this being anything other than a swift kick in Jack’s balls and a “Lay another hand on her, and you’re dead.”
But at that moment, God help him, Jack could think of nothing else he’d rather do than lay his hands on Eva. No matter what her brother would do to him for wanting her like this.
Chapter Nine
Eva
Eva stood in the marketing office at Eva’s Organics, ready to have a nervous breakdown.
Two of the designers had called in sick, and the marketing comps for the latest ads for Divine, their newest fragrance, looked like crap. It was as if Nelson had hired a bunch of five-year-olds with a box of Crayolas to create the print ads, and now she was regretting ever choosing the tall pink vial with the gold foil around the neck for the packaging.
Basically, all hell was breaking loose, and she couldn’t stop thinking of the way Jack had felt inside her.
Which was really bad. She wasn’t wearing underwear, and as she’d suspected, thinking of him kept her constantly aroused. Her nipples seemed eternally erect, pressing obviously against the sheer fabric of her blouse. If she had to endure eight hours at the office, all she really wanted to do during them was sit at her desk, alone, and touch herself, entertaining nothing but thoughts about last night.
She laughed privately at the image. My, my, had she turned into a naughty woman or what?
She leaned over Georgie’s shoulder and squinted at the Mac’s computer screen. “Nelson actually thought this looked good?”
Georgie nodded. “Well, um, we all do. We thought the staircase to heaven wrapping around the bottle was genius. Remember?”
Maybe losing her virginity had made her temporarily blind to genius. Eva craned her neck, tilted her head.
No, it was shit. Everything was shit.
“Escape to Paradise.” She wrinkled her nose. “Did we really choose that as the tagline?”
Georgie nodded slowly again, studying Eva curiously. Eva vaguely recalled the meeting a month ago, when all of these ideas had sounded so damn good. She’d come out of it and actually fist-bumped the entire team for their awesomeness.
But now…
“Is it just me,” she asked, “or does that bottle look like a giant penis?”
Georgie’s eyes widened and she grabbed Eva’s sleeve, tugging her into the chair next to hers. Her throaty voice was even lower than usual as she asked, “Eva, what the hell is up? I was expecting a full report right after the deflowering, but you didn’t even send a text. And since then you’ve been running around like a chicken with her head chopped off. Are you seeing penises everywhere because you got laid or because you didn’t? End the suspense, girlfriend.”
Eva looked around to make sure no one was nearby, then smiled. “Last night.”
Damn, it felt good to tell someone.
Georgie clapped her hands excitedly. “So, was it good?”
The words bubbled forth. “It was amazing. Ah-maze-zing.” Then she thought about this morning. Something had gone wrong, but she wasn’t sure what. It had been hot as all get out, but she couldn’t shake the feeling that Jack was upset with her for some reason. “But then…”
“But then, what?”
She shook her head. “I don’t know. I tried to downplay the virgin thing. I wanted him to know that I wasn’t going to make a big deal of it, or expect flowers and a marriage proposal or anything. I told him I wanted the full Jack, no special treatment.” She glanced over her shoulder, making sure she and Georgie were still out of earshot of the rest of the Eva’s Organics crew before she confided in a softer voice, “But this morning he kept trying to treat me like I was made out of tissue paper. And when I told him to cut it out, he got pissed.”