VA 2 - Blood Jewel by Georgia Cates Read Free Book Online Page A

she
said.
    “Well, anything can be found in
New Orleans. How about I surprise you?”
    “Sounds perfect. I love
surprises.” She placed her palms against my chest. “But, I can
think of one surprise I’d love to have,” she hinted. She leaned
forward to take ownership of my mouth and ran her hands under my
T-shirt and up my chest.
    I pulled back and looked at her
deceivingly angelic face. “You thrive on tempting me.”
    She smiled and replied, “You thrive
on denying me.”
    I took her hand and pulled her down
the hall. “Come on, it’s very late and you need your
rest.”
    “I’m going to let you off the hook
this time because I am very tired,” she surrendered.
    I kissed her forehead and said,
“Thank you for your mercy, Love.”
    I opened the door and allowed her
to enter first. “Enjoy it while it lasts because I might not be so
generous next time,” she informed me and I knew she meant every
word.
    Chansey gave me a quick kiss and
went into the bathroom, so I quickly changed into my sleep pants
while she performed her bedtime rituals. As I laid in bed waiting
for her, I closed my eyes and thought about her birthday and how I
could make it special for her.
    I had almost dozed off when I heard
the bathroom door slowly open. I hesitantly opened my eyes and saw
Chansey standing at the bedside wearing one of my button ups that
hit her mid-thigh. “Gia and Lairah don’t have anything non-sexy for
me to wear to bed. I hope you don’t mind that I borrowed your
shirt.” she said as she climbed onto my side of the bed and slowly
slinked across me to her side of the bed.
    I had to give it to her. The girl
had skills and she knew how to use them, but I refused to let her
know she was getting to me. “No, I don’t mind at all.” I lay on my
back with my fingers laced across my chest so I could keep them to
myself as I stared at the ceiling. “What’s mine is yours, isn’t
that the old saying?”
    “Yep, that’s what they say,” she
said through a huge grin, knowing all along what she was doing to
me. “It’s too hot for all these covers,” she said as she threw the
bedding to the side and lifted my shirt above her waist.
    “I’ll adjust the air for you,” I
offered. I attempted to get up, but was disrupted by her
hand.
    “No, you always feel so much
cooler than me.” She turned her back to me, shimmied closer and
pulled my arms around her. “That’s much better. Don’t you
agree?”
    She had to be the devil in
disguise. “You know exactly what you’re doing to me and shame on
you.”
    “I don’t have a clue what you
mean,” the little vixen lied. “I’m just trying to get comfortable
so I can go to sleep since I’m a human that needs her
rest.”
    “By all means, please get
comfortable so you can go to sleep and stop tormenting me,” I
admitted.
    “Oh, I’m sorry. Am I tormenting
you, Curry?”
    “Just a little” I gritted through
my teeth.
    “Good,” she said and hesitated
before she added, “Night.”
    I was thankful she decided to call
it a night because I was dangerously close to giving in to my old,
self-satisfying ways. She would never know how close she came to
getting her way tonight and I was grateful she falsely believed my
will was made of steel. “Goodnight, Chansey.”
    I waited until she was asleep to
leave her side, slipping away as quietly as a thief in the night.
My family was no longer gathered in the dining room and I walked
outside to find Gia and Lairah in the pool taking a late night
swim.
    “Tell me you didn’t leave your
bride in the bed alone,” Gia huffed.
    “She’s not my bride. She’s my
fiancé and I need your help with something big. Tomorrow is
Chansey’s birthday and I need some ideas. I want to take her into
the city and do something special, but I have no idea
what.”
    “Well, you made the right decision
by coming to us instead of that buffoon you call your best friend.
Really? What is his deal?” Lairah said.
    “I think he’s