The Deputies: 3 Novella Box Set by Olivia Jaymes Page B

eyebrow. Hank was still adamantly refusing to discuss any sort of future for them.
    “Not in the least,” he assured her. “I don’t share my toys, sweetheart. You should know that by now.”
    She was well aware. She remembered clearly when some guy had been hitting on her one night at the roadhouse. Hank had quickly and efficiently dispatched the interloper with a minimum of fuss and violence. He’d told her later he didn’t mind a man looking, but touching was a non-starter.
    “You said things weren’t the same anymore.”
    Hadn’t he spent the last two weeks repeating it over and over to her?
    He ran his fingers through her long hair and tugged her face closer, his lips hovering above hers. “Some things are the same. The way you make me feel when we’re together hasn’t changed.”
    “But you don’t love me.”
    His lips tightened and his fingers cradled the back of her head. “Leave it, Lis. We’re having a nice vacation. Can’t you let it go for one day?”
    An excellent question. “I love you, Hank. It hurts that you won’t say it.” He started to speak but she placed her hand over his mouth. “I know you have good reason not to trust me, to want to hurt me. But I think I’ve shown you that I’ve changed. I won’t let you hurt me forever. This isn’t an open-ended situation.”
    “Meaning?” Hank’s eyes narrowed in question.
    “Meaning that once I feel that I’ve taken enough of your punishment, I won’t tolerate being treated like a second class citizen in this marriage any longer,” she said calmly. He needed to understand his pouting couldn’t go on indefinitely.
    “I didn’t realize that it was your call.”
    “It’s my decision to let you be all butt-hurt, Hank. If I didn’t think you had cause, I’d have been long gone. But I have too much self-respect to let you do this to me forever.”
    “Because you love me so much?” Hank let go of her hair and sat back. “You said you would never leave and now you’re threatening to do just that.”
    He didn’t get it at all. “That’s not what I’m saying. I’m telling you that you can act like you’re Luke’s age only for so long, but eventually I’m going to push this. Tonight I’ll let it go but some day in the future, we’ll hash this out, husband.”
    “I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, but since you’re going to let it go tonight…”
    Hank’s lips came crashing down on hers, his rough hands pulling at the straps of her sundress. Her insides melted at his touch and she cursed her weak will. This man was everything she wanted and more.
    She ran her palms up his hard chest and curled her hands over his shoulders. She would let the subject drop tonight, but the day of reckoning was coming closer and closer. It wasn’t too much to ask that her husband and the father of her son love her. Just a fraction as much as she loved him.

    Hank couldn’t get Alyssa naked fast enough. All evening she’d been driving him wild. Her scent, her smile, the brush of her body against his. He wanted to take his time but he was too hungry.
    At some point he’d shed his boxers, and they were now skin to skin. His lips roamed over her soft golden flesh and his tongue traced circles that made her writhe and whimper underneath him. The grinding of her hard pointed nipples and hot pussy against him made him grit his teeth, the pleasure so intense. It never felt like this with anyone else, only her.
    He captured a nipple in his mouth and worried it between his lips. Grabbing onto the back of his head, Alyssa arched her back, a gasp falling from her full lips. “Yes, Hank. Harder.”
    In the last two weeks he’d learned something new about his sweet little wife. She liked her sex fast, hard, and a little raunchy. He used the edge of his teeth on the already turgid flesh and she moaned, gripping his hair tightly. She liked a taste of pain with her pleasure.
    Alyssa wrapped her legs around him trying to pull him closer.