by Tina Martin
“Ye-yes, Sir.”
“I hope that means she’s in good hands,” Royce says. He looks at Wendell. “Wendell, is my wife in good hands with this man?”
Wendell smirks. “She is.”
“Good.” Royce gives Uriah another once over then returns his attention to me and says, “I have to get back to work, but be thinking about what you want for dinner. I want to take you out tonight. Okay?”
“Okay.”
He palms my face and leans forward to take a consuming kiss that has me moaning. I try to stop myself from doing it, but I can’t. His lips, his hand locked around my arms feels too good to disguise my feelings.
When he pulls his lips away from mine, he says, “Walk out with me.”
“Okay,” I say. “I’ll be right back, Wendell.”
Holding my right hand, Royce leads me outside. When we’re standing next to his car, he says, “I’ve been thinking about you all morning.”
“Oh, yeah?”
“Yes. I was thinking about something your brother said when I talked to him.”
“You were talking about me?”
He shies away which looks so sexy to me because I know he doesn’t have a shy bone in his body and I feel privileged to incite this kind of a reaction from a man who’s so strong. “Yes. I was talking about you.”
“Isn’t that surprising.”
“Why is that surprising?”
“Because you usually don’t open up and talk to people, but this time, you did.”
“Yes, I did because of you.”
“Because of me,” I say, stroking a thumb on the side of his face. “You love me, don’t you?”
“Si,” he says. “Te quiero con todo mi alma.”
I smile. I love it when he talks Spanish to me. I know what he said because he says it every night: I love you with all of my soul. I love him just the same.
“I want to take you somewhere nice tonight, so pull out a nice dress from your closet…one that I can easily take off.”
I smile. “Anything I wear will be easy for you to take off with those big hands of yours,” I say, wrapping my arms around him, squeezing and appreciating him – using my senses to fully engulf the aura surrounding him.
Surrounding us.
This feels perfect. Our lives are anything but. Still, I appreciate the journey thus far – the ups and downs and all of the personalities that are now a part of my world. Like my sister Meghan who’s as wild as they come. My brother Wendell and his old soul. He’s the most like me. Then my father, Wendell, Sr., who’s a hard working man, taking his slice of the American Dream and my mother, bless her soul, who can’t look at me and not get teary eyed thinking about all those years that have escaped us. And last but not least, my husband, Royce Pembroke, the man who saved me from a broken system – from a foster mother who wasn’t much of a fosterer. I could live for an eternity and never repay him for all that he’s done for me, but I’ll certainly try and strive every day to make sure he’s happy. That’s truly all I want.
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I hope you enjoyed this peek into Royce and Makeena’s life. Please leave a review wherever you purchased your book. Check out other books by the author below:
The Blackstone Family Series
*All books in this series are standalone novels and are full, complete stories. Read them in any order.
Evenings With Bryson
Leaving Barringer
Forever Us: Barringer and Calista Blackstone (A short story follow-up to Leaving Barringer. You must read Leaving Barringer before reading this short story)
A Lennox in Love Series
*All books in this series are standalone novellas and are full, complete stories. Read them in any order.
Claiming You
Making You My Business
Wishing That I Was Yours
Caught in the Storm with a Lennox (Prequel to Claiming You)
Mine By Default Mini-Series:
*This is a continuation series that must be read in order.
Been In Love With You, Book 1
When Hearts Cry, Book 2
You Belong To Me, Book 3
When I Call You Mine, Book 4
Who Do You Love?, Book 5
Forever Mine, Book 6
The Champion Brothers Series:
*All books in this series are standalone novels and are full, complete stories. Read them in any order.
His Paradise Wife
When A Champion Wants You
The Best Thing He Never Knew He Needed
Wives And Champions
The Accidental Series:
*This is a continuation series that must be read in order.
Accidental Deception, Book 1
Accidental Heartbreak, Book 2
Accidental Lovers, Book 3
What Donovan Wants, Book 4
Dying To Love Her Series:
*This is a continuation series that must be read in order.
Dying To Love Her
Dying To Love Her 2
Dying To Love Her 3
The Alexander Series:
*Books 1-5 must be read in order. Book 6 and the spinoff book, Different Tastes, can be read in any order as a standalone.
The Millionaire’s Arranged Marriage, Book 1
Watch Me Take Your Girl, Book 2
Her Premarital Ex, Book 3
The Object of His Obsession, Book 4
Dilvan’s Redemption, Book 5
His Charity Challenge, Book 6 (Heshan Alexander and Charity Eason)
Different Tastes (An Alexander Spin-off novel. Tamera Alexander’s Story)
Non-Series Titles:
*Individual standalone books that are not part of a series.
Secrets On Lake Drive
Can’t Just Be His Friend
All Falls Down
Just Like New to the Next Man
Falling Again
Vacation Interrupted
The Crush
Wasn’t Supposed To Love Her
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