Chapter 22

* * * The car journey to his apartment passes in a flurry of back seat grinding and fumbling, lying flat across the smooth leather seat. Jake heavy on top of me with hands and mouth all over my skin, pushing me to a searing heat that has me panting and kissing me as though he's been deprived for years. Toe-curling kisses that have me begging for more. My fingers feel out his shirt and bow tie, undoing both so they hang freely open while his naked strong chest is covered in my lipstick kisses and his jackets discarded on the floor. If the internal, blacked out window of the limo hadn't been there, I would be ashamed of what Jefferson would be witnessing. Jake almost has me on the seat, his desire set free, my body no longer out of bounds for him and he's making the most of it. All my inner voices and fears chased away by his kiss while the doubts and panic are gone. He bites, nips, licks, and kisses every exposed part of me, rips my underwear off under my dress and