Loving Jared - Nikita Slater Page 0,12

nodded, feeling strangely at ease with him. “It’s my night job.”

He titled his head and she could almost see the gears of his brain working as he thought about it. “You don’t see these clients in person?”

“God no,” she quickly assured him. “I don’t even know where they live, and they definitely don’t know where I live.”

He nodded his head slowly, still thinking. “Good, I can live with that. For now.”

She tilted her head. “Live with what?”

“I can live with my super hot next-door neighbor girlfriend sexually chatting up other guys as her night job.”

Amy’s heart pounded at his words and the light-headed feeling came back. “Girlfriend?”

“Yeah, think I want to see where this goes,” he said, tightening his arms around her. “I have a good feeling about us.”

Amy thought about it. Her life was a complicated mess. She came with more baggage than an A-list celebrity with five ex-husbands and a failing make-up brand. Still, it was hard to resist her irresistible neighbor, especially when he used his wicked sexy voice and gorgeous eyes on her.

“I have a good feeling too,” she admitted, though she thought maybe some of her good feelings were coming from a woefully neglected pussy.

He dropped a kiss on her upturned lips. “Just make sure I’m in the room when you’re talking to these assholes. Consider me your new quality control expert.”

Amy laughed. “I think my quality is pretty damn good.”

He swatted her ass. “I’ll make sure of it.” He took her hand and tugged her toward the door. “Come with me.”

“Where are we going?” Amy asked, following him willingly.

“I’m taking you to my place for supper. Your sisters told me you missed supper.”

“Those little tattle-tale rats!” Amy said with a laugh as they climbed her basement stairs. “Did they let you in?”

“Yup.”

“They’re not supposed to talk to strangers though, let alone let someone in the house,” she protested.

He gave her a wink. “I’m no stranger, I’ve been giving those girls candy every Halloween for years. Teagan too, when he was smaller,” he teased.

Amy’s mouth dropped open and her sisters laughed at her expression as she was pulled through their living room and out of the house. Jared closed the door behind them and escorted her next door.

“But you never gave me any candy…”

He grinned at her. “Your candy is coming, baby. I promise.”

Seven

After dinner, Jared grinned to himself as he watched Amy step inside her house and softly close the door, her eyes boldly locked with his until the last second.

He continued grinning like a teenager after a first date as he walked back to his place, picturing those curves tightly packed into a pair of jeans and a crop top. Then there was her phone conversation. Goddamn that phone conversation. At first, he’d been furious with the idea that she was forced to work as a phone sex operator in order to make ends meet. He listened to the conversation though and quickly picked up on her love of the subject matter. He’d stood silently behind her, absorbing every word, like a peeping pervert.

The more he learned about Amy, the more he wanted to spend time with her. Everything about her was a turn on, from her sexy voice and body to her deep sense of responsibility to her siblings. She was exactly the kind of woman he wanted in his life.

He headed to his kitchen and began cleaning up the supper dishes, eating the leftovers from Amy's plate. He wanted to do it while she was here but didn't think they they'd reached that point in their relationship. Jared was a big guy, he ate like a horse, and leftovers were gold to a man like him.

He was about to lock up for the night when a sound caught his attention. It was out of the ordinary, and he couldn't place it. It took him a few minutes to realize that he was hearing shouting coming from next door. Coming from Amy's house.

Jared didn't even hesitate, he flew out the front door, ignoring it as it banged shut behind him, and loped across the lawn toward her house. The front door was open, although the storm door was closed, which is why he'd been able to hear the full-blown shouting match going on between Amy and a young man who looked to be in his mid-to-late teens.

The boy’s back was to Jared, so he didn't hear Jared quietly open the door and step inside. Amy's eyes went to Jared, a combination of