smirked. “Have you seen how many followers you have?”
“Nope. But she mentioned that.”
Jodi leaned a hip against the bed as she kept reading. “Jesus, Tuck. That’s a lot of money.”
“I never even saw the final offer. She kept upping it throughout the night every time I told her fuck to the hell no.”
Jodi flashed him the paper.
His eyes widened. “Wow. That is a lot.”
“You thinking about it?”
“Fuck no.” He grabbed the pages from her and flung them over her head so they fell all around on the floor. Then he picked her up by the waist and settled her over his lap, straddling him again. He eased his hands up her body under his shirt. “I’m never doing that again. It’s not worth all the money in the world.”
She smiled. “You’re sure? I mean I don’t want to hold you back from your burgeoning career.”
He rolled his eyes. “That is not a career. That’s more like a hurricane. I’ve never seen more shallow people in my life.”
“Still. I want to make sure you didn’t turn it down because of me. I lived through it once. I can do it again if it’s what you want.”
He cupped her breasts and molded his hands to them until she arched and moaned. Now was a good time to drop the second part. “They offered to take you too.”
She jerked her attention back to him. “What?” Her face was red.
“Yep. When I told Joanne I had a woman I was going after, she added you to the offer. Said we could do it together.”
“Be the bride and groom on the show?” Jodi looked like she was going to vomit.
“Uh huh. What do you think?” He pinched her nipples as he asked.
“Over my dead body,” she whispered as she moaned again.
Tuck chuckled. “That’s what I told Joanne. Are we done with this discussion? Because I’d much rather flip you onto your back and kiss my way up to your sweet pussy than talk about that stupid reality show.”
Jodi nodded.
“Thank God.” He did just as he’d suggested, grabbing her by the waist and flattening her onto her back as she giggled. Seconds later, he was between her legs, holding them open, her hands in his hair.
The guttural, sexy sound she made when he sucked her pussy into his mouth was worth every second of the banter. God, he loved this woman.
He thrust his tongue into her tightness and then lathed her clit with it until she came against his mouth, her fingers pulling on his hair.
Afterward, he climbed up her body and thrust into her before she fully came down from her orgasm, meeting her gaze as he watched her become fully aroused yet again.
Yeah, he loved her so much it hurt. He would gladly freeze this moment in time forever.
Chapter 30
Six days later…
Tuck sat at the kitchen table in Jodi’s apartment watching as Bill walked from room to room grabbing things and bringing them back to the kitchen. He’d just announced that he hadn’t had a vacation in years, and he was leaving this afternoon to spend some time with his brother in Colorado.
Tuck knew the man was just leaving to give Jodi and Tuck some space, but he also agreed Bill should go on a vacation, so he didn’t argue.
In front of him were the handwritten books Bill had kept with every expense the bar had incurred from the moment Bill first opened the bar. Handwritten.
“Did you look over my accounting?” Bill asked, pointing at the books.
Tuck nodded, humbled that Bill had so much faith in him that he would so easily bring him into the fold of the family business. Tuck would never let the man down, but he wasn’t sure why Bill was pressuring him. “You know,” Tuck offered as gently as possible, “I could help you transfer this to a computer spreadsheet, and it would be much easier to maintain.” He didn’t want to step on the man’s toes, but this was barbaric.
Jodi coughed from the sink behind Tuck, nearly choking herself. When Tuck turned around, he saw that she was barely containing laughter as she spun back to face the window.
Bill’s face lit up. “Could you do that?”
“Uh…yes.” Tuck was confused.
“Perfect. You’re indispensable. Things have run much smoother since you joined us.” He rushed back out of the room, still talking. “The bar is safer, there’s another set of hands to help Jodi with the heavier lifting, and you even know computers.”
Jodi chuckled behind Tuck.
He turned to glare at her,