Off Limits by Sawyer Bennett Read Free Book Online

take her lip in between my own teeth and bite down softly.
    I wait for her to say something. Finally, she looks back at me and says, "I have to talk to you about the money I owe you."
    I raise my eyebrows at her. "What's to talk about? You owe me the money and you have about three more weeks to make the first payment."
    "Yeah, about my ability to get the money...my source has sort of dried up."
    "What do you mean?" I ask. I really shouldn't care about it but I find I want to talk to her more. So this is the perfect excuse.
    "I...well...um..." She's stammering with pink cheeks and I find it adorable. Normally, that would be a major turn off for me.
    "Spit it out, Emily."
    She takes a deep breath and plunges forward. "Okay, here's the deal. I'm a trust fund baby. No surprise there, right? Well, I'm allowed to take out two thousand dollars a month until I turn twenty-one, which is in ten months. When I turn twenty-one, I get full control of the trust. I had planned to just turn over that two thousand every month to you. Unfortunately, I've managed to piss my parents off completely and they cut me off."
    Emily blows out a long, slow breath and I see that it is painful for her to admit this to me. But I'm not moved. "You know this isn't my problem. Why don't you just give me your insurance information?"
    "No," she exclaims. "I can't."
    "Oh, that's right. Mommy and daddy will take away your Beemer, right?" I can't help the sneer in my voice.
    She shakes her head. "It's worse than that. If you file an insurance claim, the police will have to do a report. And if I have another accident, I'll lose my license."
    I watch her for a minute and she's chewing on that lip again. It makes me want to suck it into my mouth and see how she tastes. I start to feel movement below and holy hell, I'm getting a fucking hard on just by looking at her lower lip. I realize, all of a sudden, that I want this girl.
    And I want her bad.
    But there is no way. She is clearly not a fuck 'em and leave 'em kind of girl. She's the kind you bring home to meet your parents. And I've never...ever...had a woman I've wanted to do that with. I need to clear my head of Emily Burnham.
    She is completely off limits.
    I need to tell her to get the fucking money or else.
    Instead, I say, "How would you like to work off the debt?"
    I have no clue where that came from but the words are out and I can't take them back. And I'm not sure I want to.
    She looks at me, tilting her head to the side in curiosity. "What do you mean?"
    "It turns out that I'm a decent welder and metal artist, but I suck at bookkeeping. I have a ton of administrative work that I need help with. How about you give me twenty hours a week and I'll let you work off the amount you owe me."
    I watch as she contemplates my offer. I have to clench my fists not to reach out and pull her lower lip out from between her teeth.
    Finally, her lip pops free and she says, "That will take me months to work that kind of debt off."
    "A few things you'll learn about me, Emily. I'm not a nice man but I can be a patient one in the right situation."
    Her eyebrows close in together as she considers my offer and she licks her lower lips to wet them. I have to bite my own tongue so I don't groan in response.
    "Okay," she says. "But it has to work around my class schedule. I can commit Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons to you, and Saturdays, too if you want. Oh, and I figured out already that you're not a nice man."
    Why those words cut me, I have no idea because they are utterly true. I'm a world-class prick, particularly to the female persuasion. And I've never thought I should be anything different.
    "Deal," I say.
    I hold my hand out to shake on it and she steps forward to accept. Her hand is warm and delicate but her grip is firm. She's close enough I can smell her and it's a light scent...jasmine, I think. It suits her well.
    Releasing her hand, I walk past her. "See you on, Monday."
    I reach into the fridge to grab one