Surrender
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I shot him a glare and followed him into his office. Kane was nowhere to be found, though. Looking around, I snapped, “I better not have just walked away from a chat with Shay to wait for that fucker to get his ass down here. He’s as bad as I used to be these days.”
Cash picked up his phone and dialed a number. “I’ll get him. Just head back into the conference room and take a seat. I’m sure he’ll be right down.”
“Conference room? Are we having another goddamned meeting, Cash? You couldn’t do this without me?”
“Just go. We’ll be back in a minute.”
“Fine. I swear you two would be lost without me, you know that?”
Cash was already ignoring me as he began to speak to Kane on the phone, so I headed back to the conference room and took a seat at the enormous cherry wood table that reminded me of something my father used to have in his office. Closing my eyes, I tried to calm down, knowing it would take just one or two wrong words from Kane and I’d lose it.
I heard Olivia’s office door open, and I turned to see her wearing a huge smile. At least someone was happy to be there. “Hey, Olivia. What’s up? Any idea what this meeting’s about?”
She stepped aside and from behind her Shay stepped into the room. Any coherent thoughts in my mind slipped away, and I stood up from the table in shock. “How? When? I was just talking to you in Copenhagen.”
“The researcher I’m working with had to leave for a conference and he gave us all a week off. I wanted to surprise you, so I arranged it with Olivia to fly in last night and stay at her and Cash’s place.”
My body felt frozen on the spot where I stood. After all those nights alone, there she was right in front of me. Shay smiled and ran into my arms, and I was sure at that moment I’d never felt happier in my life. “I can’t believe you’re finally here again. I missed you so damn much, Shay.”
She squeezed me tight and looked up at me. “I missed you too. It’s only for a week, but it’s something.”
Cradling her face, I joked, “Well, if all we have is a week, we better get going. We’ve got a lot of time to make up for.”
I took her hand and led her out into Cash’s office where he, Kane, and Olivia stood. “You were all in on this, weren’t you?” I asked.
“We couldn’t stand your moping anymore,” Kane said with a smile. “But it was Shay who came up with the idea to surprise you.”
“Well, I’m glad she did, and thanks for helping her. This might be the best surprise I’ve ever gotten.”
“What are your plans for the week?” Olivia asked.
“About that guys. I’m taking the week off. Don’t call or even text me. I’m busy until next week, right?” I announced as I looked down at Shay.
“Right. See you guys!”
I figured I’d hear some complaint from Cash or Kane as she pulled me toward the door, but they just nodded as if they’d expected me to be like this. All the better. I didn’t have time to argue with them today. I had one week with Shay, and I wasn’t going to waste a minute of that time.
Shay climbed off my bike and took my hand as we walked into my building. Looking up at me, she said, “I missed that, you know that?”
“What? The bike?”
“Yeah. Silly, right? But I missed that feeling of holding on as you fly through the city.”
We entered the elevator and as the doors closed, I pulled her into my arms. “I missed this. Getting to feel you next to me when I come home.”
“Well, for the next six days, you can have that to your heart’s content,” she said smiling up at me.
“I’m not sure six days is going to be enough. This time apart is harder than I thought it would be, princess.”
“I know, Stefan. It is for me too, but this is important to me.”
I kissed her forehead. “I know. Epimenics and all that.”
She chuckled as I mispronounced her field for the four thousandth time. “Epigenetics. I don’t want to talk about that while I’m here, though. All I want to do is focus on you, my gorgeous, incredible boyfriend who I haven’t seen for four long months.”
“I’m all for that,” I said as I pressed the button for the fifteenth floor.
Shay gave me a wink and pushed the STOP button so the elevator came to a halt just as it began to rise. As she slowly lowered herself to her knees, she smiled. “Do you know in all the time we’ve been together I’ve never made up for that night I left you high and dry in your office? Do you remember?”
She unzipped my jeans and took my cock out to playfully flick the head with her tongue, nearly driving me crazy.
“I remember,” I said nearly breathless in anticipation of her going down on me right there in the elevator.
“Well, I think it’s about time to remedy that oversight, don’t you?”
She slid the first few inches of my cock into her mouth, sending my body into near hyper drive. It had been four long months since anything but my own hand had touched me, but the wait had been worth it. The feel of her lips and tongue gliding up and down my shaft made my legs go weak, and I reached back to grab the bar on the wall for balance.
Shay popped my cock out of her mouth and smiled up at me. “You okay up there?”
“Yeah,” I answered in more a groan than a word.
She slid her mouth back over the head of my cock and all the way down to the base, taking me into her so far I had to be nearly gagging her. Then she slowly came back up, her tongue teasing the underneath as my cock retreated from her mouth.
“Baby, it’s not going to take long. Four months of just my hand isn’t the same as you. I’m close.”
“Good.”
I stuffed my hands into her hair and tightened their hold to direct her as she proceeded to give me a blow job that nearly took the top of my head off with it when I came. I flooded her mouth as my knees buckled, and she took every last drop I gave her.
When she was finished, she stood up and kissed me. “I think that makes up for that night, don’t you?”
Opening my eyes, I said with smile, “It might require a few more to really make up for that heinous thing you did.”
“Well, how about I give you time to recuperate and I’ll do more making up later. Deal?”
I pressed the STOP button again to make the elevator continue up to my floor and nodded. “Deal.”
Lying in bed watching the sun set on our first day together made me miss her already and she’d just come back to me. My heart felt like someone had it in a vice. How was I going to live without her for eight months more?
I squeezed her against me, and Shay gently pushed my chin so I had to look at her. “Hey, what’s wrong? No sad faces. We have a week together we didn’t expect.”
“I know.”
“Then what’s wrong, Stefan?”
“I miss you so much, Shay. Everything I thought meant something in my life doesn’t anymore without you here. The club, my life, none of it means anything now that you’re not here with me.”
“I know, baby, but it’s just for eight months more.”
“What’s Copenhagen like?”
“Cold. Snowy. Pretty much the opposite of Tampa. I work all the time and look forward to talking to you every night. That’s about all I do.”
“Then not somewhere we want to go, right?”
She smiled and shook her head. “No. I don’t think I want to live in Copenhagen after my time there is up. But I have a surprise for you.”
I looked down at her to see her grinning from ear to ear. “What’s that?”
“While I’m here, I’m talking to Dr. Taduch about a position at the university for when I get back. He emailed me a week or so ago and told me about it, so I sent all my materials in to apply already.”
“So after the year is up you might be back here to stay?” I asked, my heart filling with joy at her news.
“Yeah. It might just be for a year, but that could give us some time to figure out what we want to do when we grow up.”
“Will you be able to come back for Cash and Olivia’s wedding?”
Shay shook her head. “I don’t think so. The soonest I could come back for a visit would probably be August. I think we all have a week off then.”
“That’s only four months,” I said quietly, trying to convince myself it wasn’t that long.
Snuggling up against me, she pressed her lips against my neck and nuzzled my skin. “And then four months later I’ll be back.”
“I know. Not too long.”
Not very convincing.
She whispered, “But then I’ll be back and we can spend every night together like this. Deal?”
“This isn’t as good as the last time you offered me a deal a few hours ago,” I said, trying to find the humor in what made me feel like shit.
Shay sat up next to me and drummed her fingers on my stomach. “What if I told you something I think will make you smile?”
I crossed my arms behind my head and nodded. “You don’t have to go back and you’ll stay here with me forever?”
She gave me a look that told me I was being difficult and shook her head. “No, but I think this will still make you smile.”
“Okay. Shoot.”
“Do you remember the first day we met—the day you and Kane made that infamous bet?”
“Yeah…”
I wondered if she was about to tell me Kane had said something to her about our bet now that she and the rest of my family were close enough to keep secrets from me.
“Well, I made a little bet of my own that day.”
I was intrigued. “A bet? About what?”
“I was so furious with you after how you acted that I bet Carrie I could make you, one of Tampa’s biggest players, fall for me.”
I knew there was a reason I couldn’t resist her from the minute we met. Few women had confidence like she did, and even fewer could back it up. Shay sat there looking at me with a playful expression that made me want to take her in my arms and never let her go.
“So you bet you could get me, and I bet I could get you? I guess we’re not so different after all, Shay Callahan.”
Leaning down, she kissed me sweetly and snuggled up against me again. “Who’d have thought it, Stefan March?”
She was right. In many ways, we were as different as night and day, but that feeling I’d had the moment I met her hadn’t been just physical. I’d been with more women than I cared to remember, but even though I didn’t know it that day, I’d met the one who could beat me at my own game.
Maybe winning wasn’t the most important thing after all.
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COMING EARLY 2015! POSSESSION (CLUB X #3)
Kane Jackson, the ruler of the fantasy section of Club X, has always been different from his brothers. The bastard son of Cassian March III, he grew up without the money and privilege Cassian and Stefan enjoyed from the March name, instead only knowing his father as the man who abandoned him and seeing himself as unloved and unwanted. He let love in once and like everything else in his life, all that came from it was pain. His heart hidden behind the walls he’s built since then, Kane is now just the dark figure who rules over the fantasies of others but has none himself.
Abbi Linde can’t seem to get a break. Too many bad men and bad choices have left her bruised and broken, but the opportunity to dance at Club X could change everything. For the first time, she might be able to make a life for herself and find the happiness she longs for. After what feels like a lifetime of heartbreak, Abbi still believes one day her dreams will come true and she’ll find the love that’s eluded her.
Even the darkest heart craves the light, but will the darkness be too much for love to overcome with these two souls?
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K.M. Scott writes sexy contemporary romance with characters her readers love. A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, she’s been in love with romance since reading her first romance novel in junior high (she was a very curious girl!). She lives in Pennsylvania with her teenage son and a herd of animals and when she’s not writing can be found reading or feeding her TV addiction.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
About this Book
Copyright Notice
DEDICATION
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Epilogue
EXTRAS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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