How the Hitman Stole Christmas - Sam Mariano Page 0,107
over his head so I can’t reach, and keeps an arm around my waist to keep me from getting any higher. “We’ll get the real keys after we sign the closing paperwork, but I needed something to wrap, so…”
I stop reaching for the key now that I’m on top of Jasper, my thighs straddling his sexy body. “I don’t care if it’s a real key or symbolic, it’s still mine. Give it back, thief.”
His beautiful eyes glint mischievously as he looks up at me. “You’ll have to fight me for it.”
I gaze down at him, my eyes full of all the love I can bear. Overcome with tenderness, I sigh and run my fingers through his hair, then I lean down to kiss those perfect lips.
Jasper falls right into my trap, letting his guard down and kissing me back. I break away and sit back so I can reach for the hem of my shirt and draw it off. I toss it back toward the couch, then go right for the clasp on my bra. His heated gaze drops as I free my boobs from their fabric prison, and he drops the key on the ground so his hands can follow.
Before he can catch my breasts in his hands, before he even gets to touch me, I snatch the keychain and leap off of him.
“Hey!” Jasper objects.
I don’t pause to look back—I can’t, he’s too quick. I laugh as I run down the hall with my prize, but Jasper seizes me the moment I step over the threshold into our bedroom.
“You’re gonna pay for that,” he tells me, walking me forward toward the bed.
Anticipation thick in my tone, I reach back to wind my arm around his neck. “Promise?”
“Mm-hmm.” He kisses the side of my neck greedily, one hand moving around my body to palm my naked breast. “Just because I’m retiring, don’t think that means I’ll stop collecting on what I’m owed.”
“I wouldn’t dream of it,” I murmur, sighing as he drags his lips across a particularly sensitive area of my neck.
I want to keep up the game, but not more than I want to turn around and kiss him, so that’s what I do.
I kiss him while we stand there, his big, scarred hands moving hungrily all over my body.
I kiss him when he picks me up and walks me back toward the bed.
I kiss him every chance I get as he climbs on top of me naked and fills me so full of him, I could burst.
I kiss him afterward, too, when he wraps his strong arms around me and holds me close.
I’m curled up facing him with one arm draped over his waist. His eyes are closed, but he’s not asleep. He’s just enjoying the moment, same as I am.
My eyes are getting heavy, though. Livy will likely wake up early like she always does, and I want to be well-rested and energetic to keep up with her on Christmas morning. Looking over at the clock on Jasper’s beside table, I see it’s just after midnight.
I slide my hand up his chest, splaying it over the snowflake he got inked into the skin over his heart. Personally, I think it’s a very badass snowflake. I might be biased, though. I am pretty crazy about the man it’s attached to.
Jasper’s eyes open and he looks down at me affectionately—a casual, unintended reminder that he’s just as crazy about me.
I lean in and steal one last kiss before we go to sleep.
“It’s after midnight,” I tell him.
“So it is.”
I offer him a tiny smile. I know he doesn’t have as much Christmas spirit as I do even now that he’s come around to the holiday, so I spare him tonight. Tomorrow I’ll bombard him with more Christmas spirit than he’ll be able to handle, but for now, I’ll just tell him goodnight.
Just like I fantasized about doing for years before I even met him, I close my eyes and snuggle up with the man I love, the man who loves me more than life itself.
In the morning, we’ll wake up to our little one’s delight and all the Christmas magic the holiday has to offer.
Jasper may be a shameless thief, but he has brought to life my every dream, my every fantasy—even the ones buried so deep inside me, I didn’t know they were there until he unearthed them.
Every dream I feared he would steal from me the night he took me, he has made come true.
There was a time Jasper didn’t think he could give me everything he thought I deserved, but he’s given me more than I ever could have hoped for.
“Good night, Jasper,” I whisper, closing my eyes.
The pillow rustles beneath his head as he moves toward me. I smile when he kisses my forehead.
“Merry Christmas, snowflake.”
The End
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