Home For The Holidays - Jordan Silver Page 0,74

stop moving like that before you make me lose control.”

“What am I doing? I’m not doing anything.” Yes, I was. I was humping the pillow at the thought of the pain I was about to feel.

I don’t get it. I enjoy the pain but the thought of him tearing me with that monster makes me want to jump off the bed and run. “Hurry up before I change my mind. You and your King Kong dick.” I didn’t understand his wild laughter until I realized I’d said the last bit out loud.

Samantha

“You nervous?”

“Yep!” Jared reached for my hand in the back of the car on the way to my parents' house the next day. My ass hurt, but at least I had something else to keep my mind off of my discomfort.

“You tossed and turned all night. If you need me to take point, I will.”

I was busy looking out the window at the snow that had fallen overnight, making everything look merry and bright as is right for the season. Now that we were coming down to the wire, my mind kept feeding me all the things that could go wrong. But I can’t ask him to do this. Not on his first holiday with my family.

Mom and dad had already given me the thumbs up, each of them letting me know that they approved of him. I doubt he even knows that dad had been testing him all day yesterday, something I hadn’t been aware of myself at the time. But the way mom claims dad has been gushing about him all night tells me that he’d passed the test.

“It’s okay; I can do it.” I lifted our joined hands and kissed his knuckles. My hand went to the diamond locket he’d clasped around my neck just before we left the penthouse, another one of his gifts. The man is nuts. He forbade me to get him anything, which I adhered to, well almost. I have something waiting for him back at home for later tonight, something that’s making me almost as nervous as what I was about to do.

I looked at him and felt my heart swell in my chest. Sometimes, like now, it’s hard for me to remember what my life was like before he came along. I wake up sometimes afraid that it’s all a dream. Those times he just loves me back to sleep and holds me wrapped in his arms until morning.

“Mom and dad will be okay, right? They’ll understand, right?” Now it was he who raised my hand to his lips.

“Come ‘ere.” He pulled my head down to his shoulder. “You told your dad you had a plan, right? And he gave you the go-ahead. I think if things go well your parents, in fact, your whole family will thank you. If they don’t, I’ll just set them straight.” I just love it when my nerd gets all manly.

We pulled up to the house, and I took a deep breath. My knees were actually shaking as I looked at the front door. Mom had gone all out this year as she does every year. There was a pair of six-foot nutcrackers standing guard on either side of the front door. A manger scene off to one side with a real carousel horse of all things and on the other ornament topiaries in black white and red her holiday colors this year.

Every window had a wreath with huge red bows and decorated with tweed ribbon in the red, black and white color scheme, and there were balls and tinsel on every damn thing as far as the eye could see. “Your home looks like Xmas.”

“What do your parents do for the holiday?”

“Ski. Come on, let’s go.”

Mom was her usual frazzled self when she met us at the door, and I was tickled at the shocked look on Jared’s face when she greeted him with the same kiss on the cheek as she did me. “I’ll be right back, kids; your dad forgot my bloody nutmeg.”

“That’s okay; I’ll have someone go get it for you. Nutmeg, you said?”

“Oh, aren’t you just the sweetest. Yes, thanks. Is that your driver sitting out there? He’s not going to stay there the whole day, is he?”

“No, ma’am, he’s going to head next door with the rest of my security team.”

“Your…”

“She looked from him to me, and I shrugged my shoulders. “Don’t look at me. Your son in law is nuts.”

“They’re more for her than me.” He threw