On Dublin Street The Bonus Material - Samantha Young Page 0,20
her about you.”
Her silence caused a flare of panic. But then… “You have to fire her.”
Amusement and gratification subdued his panic. Jocelyn acting outright possessive was something he could get used to. “Are you finally admitting you love me?”
“I can’t promise it’ll be easy, Braden. I’ll probably always be a little irrational about the future. I’ll worry a lot.”
Joy began to bubble up in him as he realized she was finally giving in to them. “I told you I can handle it, babe.”
“Why?”
Why was he fighting so hard for her? “Because you make me laugh, you challenge me, you turn me on like no one else can. I feel like I’m missing something really important when you’re gone. So important I don’t feel like myself. I’ve never felt like someone was mine before. But you’re mine, Jocelyn. I’ve known that from the moment we met. And I’m yours. I don’t want to be anybody else’s, babe.” It wasn’t hard to admit his feelings now that he wasn’t tiptoeing around Jocelyn’s. Braden wanted her to know that she was loved beyond any of her wildest imaginings.
She leaned up on her elbow to look him in the eye and he saw all of her love for him shining out. Relief, unlike anything he’d ever felt, flooded him.
He felt her soft, tender kiss on his mouth. A kiss that deepened as she sunk into him with a physical outpouring of that love.
A little breathless when they finally came up for air, Jocelyn caressed his lower lip with her finger as if memorizing him. And then she blew him away by asking, “Do you think you might be able to come to Virginia with me? To go through my parents’ things?”
There was so much in that one request and happiness bloomed like an ache in Braden’s chest. Jocelyn was going to try to move on, to face her loss, and she wanted him by her side while she did it. “Of course. We’ll go whenever you want. But we’re coming back.” He reminded her that they still hadn’t discussed the fact that she’d been planning to take off on him.
“I was only moving to Virginia because I thought you were moving into Isla.”
He grunted at her usual charming way with words. “Nice.”
“You’re firing her, right?” she insisted.
Although perversely pleased with her possessiveness, it didn’t sit quite right to fire someone just because they had a crush on him. Yet, he didn’t want to deny Jocelyn either. He felt her out to see if she really meant it, “You just want me to fire her?”
“If I told you that Craig had kissed me last night would you make me quit.”
Fuck.
“Point taken. I’ll find her a job elsewhere.”
“Elsewhere as in nowhere you work.”
His lips twitched with renewed amusement. “Christ, you’re bossy.”
“Uh, do you not remember dry humping me to a desk after Craig kissed me.”
Yes, he did. It was one of the sexiest encounters between them. So far. “Again, point taken.”
Jocelyn suddenly buried her head against his chest. “I thought I’d really fucked up.”
Not wanting her to take all of it on herself, Braden squeezed her nape, reassuring her. “We both really did. But that’s over now. From now on I’m completely in charge.” He teased. “I think we’ll have a lot less drama, and definitely no more breakups, if I’m in control of this thing.”
She gave his stomach a condescending pat. “Whatever you need to tell yourself to get through the day, baby.”
He smirked… and then pushed, “You still haven’t said it yet you know.”
Thankfully she didn’t torture him with a long wait. Jocelyn lifted that gorgeous head of hers, gave him that sexy little smile and confessed, “I love you, Braden Carmichael.”
He was wrong before about the joy. This. This was joy. He couldn’t contain it, grinning so hard it made her beam right back at him. Greedy, he insisted, “Say it again.”
She giggled. Bloody giggled and it was the sexiest and cutest fucking thing he’d ever heard. He vowed to hear it more. “I love you.”
Needing to be inside her while she said it, Braden sat up quickly and got out of the bed, pulling Jocelyn along with him. He gently pushed her towards his bathroom. “You’re going to say it again while I fuck you in the shower.”
She grinned up at him. “This whole taking control thing is kind of hot.”
“It’s about to get hotter, babe.” He smacked her lightly on the ass and she let out a little squeal that surprised