“I assume they do. I’ll talk to you later,” Jonah said.
“Yeah. Thanks for calling.”
He stuffed the phone into his pocket. Fuck. He didn’t know if that was good news or not. He respected those agencies and knew the cop was bad, but the fact that they’d been investigating him for a year and didn’t have enough to arrest him worried him.
He didn’t want to think about it anymore. He had a woman in his bedroom, and he wasn’t going to keep her waiting.
Chapter Seven
He stopped short when he walked into the bedroom to see her sitting on the bed with the blanket around her waist. She probably didn’t realize he could see her nipples through the fabric of the nightgown he’d bought her. But it didn’t matter. He’d know her body better than she knew it herself.
“Hey, baby girl. I’m going to shower, and then I’ll be right out.”
She nodded and nibbled on her lip.
He didn’t like how apprehensive she was but knew she’d overcome it quickly. When he came out, she was lying down with the blanket up to her chin, and he almost smiled. Damn, she was so innocent, and it just made his protectiveness strengthen.
He turned off the lights except for the one by the bed and slid in beside her.
Her gaze went to the lamp and then back to him. “Um, aren’t you going to turn the light off?”
He shook his head. “No. I know you might not like that, but I have to be able to see all your expressions to make sure I’m not hurting you.”
“I could just tell you,” she said.
“No. Everything will be fine, baby girl.”
She nodded, but the grip on the blanket tightened.
He tugged on it. “Let go.”
Her eyes widened.
“Baby, let go. Don’t you want me to make you feel good?”
“Yes.”
“Then let go. Nothing we’re going to do is going to hurt you.”
“It’s just…”
“Baby, if you don’t want to do this, it’s perfectly fine with me. I’m not going to push you into anything you don’t want to door aren’t ready for.”
“I want to.”
“Then let go of the blanket,” he said.
She opened her hands and released her grip.
“Good girl.”
He leaned over her but held his weight on his elbow to keep from smothering her. His lips touched hers softly before he deepened the contact. When she wrapped her arms around his neck and tried to deepen the kiss, his body tightened unbearably.
“Easy, baby. We’ve got time.”
“I ache,” she said.
“We haven’t even started.”