The Illegitimate Heirs: Luke, Zach and Jake: Bossman Billionaire

“And I think it’s going to kill me,” he muttered, sounding more than a little winded.

“You don’t like what I’m doing?” she asked as she pushed another button free. She kissed the exposed area, then glancing up at him, kissed her way to the next button. “Would you like for me to stop?”

“Not on…your life.” He paused as if trying to arrange his thoughts. “Don’t get me wrong, sweetheart. What you’re doing feels damned good.” When she released the next two buttons and nibbled all the way down his chest to the rippling muscles of his abdomen, she was thrilled at the sound of his sharp intake of breath and the shuddering of his body. “But if you go much farther, I’m going to be finished way before we ever get started.”

“Hmm, I don’t think that would be good,” she confessed, smiling as she pulled the tail of his shirt from the waistband of his low slung jeans.

Laughing, he shook his head. “No, it wouldn’t be good at all.” Looking up at him, Luke’s eyes were tightly closed and a muscle along his jaw was working overtime. “Are you feeling all right?” she asked, thrilled that he seemed to be enjoying her efforts to arouse him.

“I will be real soon,” he answered.

When he opened his eyes, the intense blaze of passion in the dark blue depths heated her all the way to her feminine core.

His gaze held her captive as he slowly shrugged out of his shirt, then reached behind her to make quick work of unfastening her lacy bra. When he slid the straps down her arms and tossed it at their feet, he took her hands in his and stood back to gaze at her.

“You’re absolutely beautiful, Haley. I don’t ever want you to doubt that.”

He must have expected her to cover herself because before she had an opportunity to react, he pulled her to him. At the initial feel of soft, feminine skin meeting hard, masculine flesh, the fluttering in her stomach went completely berserk and tiny electric charges skipped over every nerve ending in her body. The delightful abrasion of his chest hair against her sensitized nipples was so sensual, so incredibly exciting, Haley never wanted it to end. And apparently the sensations were just as intense for him as they were for her.

A groan rumbled up from deep in his chest and he took a deep breath a moment before he shook his head. “This was a mistake,” he said, splaying his hands over her bare back to hold her to him.

“W-why do you say that?” She was truly surprised that her vocal cords still worked, let alone that she had the capability of putting words into a coherent thought.

Sliding his hands from her back down to her hips, he cupped her bottom and pulled her more fully into the cradle of his hips. The solid ridge of his arousal pressed to her lower stomach threatened to send her into a total meltdown and she had to force herself to breathe.

“You’ve made me harder than a chunk of granite.” Holding her to him with one arm, he reached for the waistband of her khaki slacks. “I want you so damned much I’m about to explode.”

As spirals of heat twined their way throughout her body to gather in an ever-tightening coil at the apex of her thighs, Haley couldn’t speak. Weakened by the urgent desire building inside of her, she grasped Luke’s biceps to stay on her feet.

“You feel so good,” he said as his lips moved over her collarbone, then down the slope of her breast.

As he unfastened the closure at the top of her slacks and lowered the zipper, she unbuckled his belt and released the snap of his jeans. Then, feeling bolder than ever, she toyed with the tab at his fly a moment before slowly easing it downward a fraction of an inch.

“I thought we were supposed to be…” Her heart skipped several beats when her fingers brushed the insistent bulge straining to be released from the denim fabric. “…taking each other’s clothes off.”

When he shuddered and caught her hands in his, their eyes met and the hunger she saw in the navy blue depths sent a shiver of anticipation skipping over her. “Haley, before this night is over, I fully intend for you to know every inch of my body, as I’m going to know every inch of yours,” he said, his voice sounding deeper and sexier than she’d ever heard it.

As she watched, he finished lowering his fly, shoved his jeans and boxers down his long muscular legs, then stepped out of them and kicked them to the side. When he straightened, he stood proudly in front of her and she knew he was giving her the luxury of perusing his body without the hindrance of feeling self-conscious about her own.

With her stomach fluttering like a swarm of butterflies had been trapped inside, her gaze slowly slid from his muscular midsection down to his lean, well-toned hips, then beyond. Her breath caught in her throat and her pulse pounded in her ears at the sight of his proud, heavily aroused sex surrounded by a thick patch of crisp dark hair.

“Oh heavens,” she said, her gaze flying up to meet his.

As he wrapped his arms around her and drew her to him, his smile made her feel as if she were the most desired woman alive. “I give you my word that making love this time will be easier, sweetheart,” he promised as he slid his hands to her waist. “I’m going to give you nothing but pure pleasure.”

Unable to find words adequate enough to express how she felt, Haley simply nodded and waited for him to lower the last barriers between them.

“Do you have any idea the hell I’ve gone through today just knowing what your clothes have been hiding?” he asked, when he added her slacks and panties to the pile of clothing beside them.

“I-I didn’t…realize—”

“Let’s get into bed while we’ve still got enough strength left to get there,” he cautioned, his words vibrating against her lips.

“That’s probably…a good idea,” she agreed, trying to catch her non-existent breath.

The world suddenly tilted precariously when he lifted her in his arms to gently place her in the middle of his bed. As he stretched out beside her, she briefly wondered if he was thinking about making love to her or if he was concentrating on making her pregnant. But as he pulled her to him and she saw the raw hunger in the vivid blue depths of his eyes, she forgot about the purpose behind their union and concentrated on the way he was making her feel.

As he kissed her with a tenderness that robbed her of patience, heat streaked from every part of her to gather in a pool in her very core and she briefly wondered if she’d ever breathe again. But when he cupped her breasts and chafed the overly sensitive tip with the pad of his thumb, a shiver rippled the length of her spine and she moaned from the pure pleasure of it.

“Does that feel good, Haley?” he asked as he nibbled tiny kisses to the rapidly fluttering pulse at the base of her throat.

“Y-yes.”

He slid his hand over her ribs to her waist. Then, as he kissed his way from her collarbone down the slope of her breast, he moved his hand to her hip. “Would you like for me to do more?”

“I-If you don’t, I think I’ll go out of my mind,” she groaned, meaning it. She needed his touch, needed his lovemaking like she needed her next heartbeat.

The overwhelming hunger in her lower belly quickly turned to an emptiness that needed to be filled when he took the hardened bud into his mouth and teased her with his tongue at the same time he touched her intimately. Tremors of desire ran through her at the speed of light, but when he slipped his finger inside it felt as if fireworks had been ignited in her soul.

Wanting to bring him the same kind of pleasure, she flattened her palms on his chest and caressed the firm pads of his pectoral muscles, then used her fingertips to trace the lines of his abs on the way to his flat lower belly. But unsure if she should touch him as intimately as he touched her, her hands stilled.

“Go ahead, sweetheart. I promise I won’t break,” he reassured her, taking her hand in his to guide her to his rigid flesh.

As she encircled his hard masculinity, Haley was encouraged by his deep shuddering groan and she took the liberty of measuring his strength, of teasing his velvety tip and exploring the softness below. But all too quickly Luke took her hands in his and brought them back to his wide chest.

His gaze never left hers as without another word he nudged her knees apart and moved to settle himself between her thighs. “Only pleasure this time,” he repeated as he slowly moved his hips forward. “I promise.”

Trusting him as she’d never trusted any other man, she didn’t even think to be apprehensive. She wanted him to love her, wanted him to take her back to the heights of ecstasy that he’d taken her to that morning.

A shimmering heat began to dance behind Haley’s tightly closed eyes when she felt the blunt tip of him against the most feminine part of her. “Please make love to me, Luke. I need you inside. Now.”

The blood in her veins felt as if it flowed to the beat of a sultry drum as he slowly began to enter her. Wrapping her arms around his broad shoulders, she reveled in the exquisite stretching of her body as she became one with the man she loved.

When their bodies were completely joined, Haley closed her eyes and lost herself in the intimacy of it all. It felt as if there was no beginning and no end as he set a slow, leisurely pace and wave after wave of pleasure began to consume her. Tension, sensual and exhilarating, began to grip every fiber of her being. Apparently sensing that she was rapidly approaching the peak, Luke deepened his thrusts and she suddenly broke free of the ever-tightening need holding her captive.

Basking in the delicious crescendo of sensations overcoming her, she clung to him to keep from losing herself and held him close in an effort to prolong the feelings. Then suddenly, she felt his body go perfectly still a moment before he hoarsely called her name and joined her in the peace of sweet release.

Haley tightened her arms around Luke and tried not to think about their arrangement being temporary. How long after she became pregnant would he still desire her? Would he view the pregnancy as “mission accomplished” and lose interest in their lovemaking?

And what would happen if she didn’t get pregnant right away? Would Luke become impatient and end their arrangement prematurely? Would he decide to find someone else to have the baby both wanted so badly but for different reasons?

She forced herself to end her disturbing speculation as he rolled to her side and drew her to him. All too soon her questions would be answered. Until then, she would store up every memory that she could for the cold, lonely nights when she would be without him.

Cursing a blue streak, Luke bolted out of bed and hurriedly searched for his jeans in the pile of clothing on the bedroom floor. Who the hell would be calling him at this hour of the night? And why couldn’t he find his damned cell phone?

“Do you have any idea what the hell time it is?” he demanded when he finally found his phone and ended its incessant noise.

“I don’t give a damn what time it is, we need to talk.”

At the sound of his twin brother’s voice, Luke growled, “This had better be important, Jake.”

“There’s something wrong with Arielle,” Jake said, unaffected by Luke’s harsh tone.

Luke’s irritation at being wakened in the middle of the night instantly disappeared at the mention of his younger sister. “Is she all right? What’s happened? Does she need a doctor?”

“I’m not sure.” Jake paused. “She tells me she’s fine, but when I called her this evening she was sobbing her heart out. Again.”

“Again? You mean this has happened before? How recently? And why haven’t I heard about it until now?” Luke demanded. Normally, he and Jake shared everything. Especially their concerns about their younger sister.

“She begged me not to say anything to you the first time it happened,” Jake answered. “And I figured it was just one of those emotional things women do when they have a bad day.”

Checking to see if his conversation had disturbed Haley, Luke found her still sleeping peacefully in his bed. Satisfied, he turned his attention to the matter at hand. Normally a very happy person, Arielle rarely cried unless something was terribly wrong.

“How many times has this happened?”

“Twice,” Jake confirmed. “And you and I both know this isn’t like her.”

“Did she tell you why?” Luke inquired, quietly opening the door and walking into the great room.

“I asked, but she wouldn’t tell me. And that’s what has me concerned. She’s never kept anything from us before.” Jake’s frustration was evident in his tone. “The only thing she would say was we couldn’t fix everything for her and that she’d work it out on her own.”

That wasn’t like their younger sister at all. From the time she could talk, Arielle had shared everything that went on in her life with them and never hesitated to come to either one of them with whatever problem she had.

“Maybe she’s having second thoughts about this deal she insisted we all make with Emerald Larson,” Luke offered, thinking aloud. God only knew he’d had more than his fair share of misgivings.

“I seriously doubt it.” Jake snorted disgustedly. “She told me last week that she’s already put in her resignation at the preschool, given notice on her apartment and couldn’t wait to move to Dallas.”

Luke remained silent as he thought of what could possibly be wrong with their little sister. “Don’t women sometimes cry when they go through that hormonal change each month?” he asked, wondering if Haley was prone to mood swings.

“How the hell should I know? If you’ll remember, when Arielle went through puberty, we didn’t have a clue what to tell her and ended up having our secretaries talk to her about what was going on with her body,” Jake huffed, sounding just as clueless as Luke felt. “Since neither one of us has a wife to talk to her, should we have your assistant give her a call and find out what the deal is? They seemed to hit it off pretty well the last couple of times she and I flew into Nashville for a visit.”

Luke took a deep breath. He’d intended to call Jake and tell him about his plan for an heir and his agreement with Haley once they returned to Nashville. But since he had his brother on the phone, Luke figured there was no time like the present to fill Jake in.

“Well, you’re half right about that statement,” he admitted, anticipating his brother’s reaction. “You might not be married, but I took the plunge this weekend.”

There was a shocked silence before Jake shouted. “You did what?And why didn’t I hear about this sooner?”

“I didn’t make my decision until this past week.”

“What the hell were you thinking?” Jake countered, sounding thoroughly disgusted. “Haven’t you been listening when I tell you about all the nasty divorce cases I handle?”

Explaining his reasons for wanting a son, Luke carefully omitted Haley’s name when he told his brother about the agreement they’d reached. His brother had been teasing him for several years about having hired Haley to add beauty to the Garnier offices. Odd that Jake had noticed years ago what Luke had only recently discovered about her. But then, Jake had always taken an interest in every woman he’d ever laid eyes on.

“Are you sure you can trust this woman?” Jake sounded more than a little doubtful. “How long have you known her?”

“Five years and I have no reason not to trust her,” Luke confirmed, realizing that he’d never put his faith in any other woman the way he did Haley. “She’s above reproach.”

“I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard that.” Always the divorce attorney, Jake demanded “What about a prenup? Please tell me you had her sign one.”

“Signed, sealed and airtight,” Luke answered.

“You should have had me look it over,” Jake groused, clearly disappointed that he’d been excluded from Luke’s plan.

“I would have if there had been time,” Luke reiterated, meaning it. “But I needed to move on this before she changed her mind.”

“So what if she had? I’m sure you could find another one willing to be the surrogate,” Jake said reasonably. “And you might not have had to get married to get what you wanted.”

Luke shook his head. “I didn’t want anyone else. This woman is perfect. She has every trait I’m looking to pass on to my heir.”

Several long seconds passed before Jake spoke again. “Well, now that you’re out of the running, I guess it won’t bother you if I make my move on that sweet little assistant of yours. You know how hot I’ve always thought she was.”

“I have it on good authority that Haley’s husband wouldn’t appreciate your plan to include her as the object of one of your sexual interludes,” Luke grumbled, suddenly more angry with his brother than he could ever remember and not entirely sure why.

He told himself it was because Jake was a notorious player and changed women as often as he changed his socks. But the truth of the matter was, Luke couldn’t stand the thought of any other man touching Haley.

Jake was silent before he finally spoke again. “Well, I’ll be damned. Haley is my new sister-in-law, isn’t she, Luke?”

Still trying to come to grips with the uncharacteristic possessiveness threatening to consume him, Luke ran his hand over the tension building at the back of his neck. “Yeah.”

“I wondered how long it would take for you to finally wake up.” Jake sounded genuinely surprised. “I’d almost given up on you noticing what a looker she is.”

“I told you the sole purpose of the marriage is to have my heir. It’s only a temporary thing.”

To Luke’s immense displeasure, Jake laughed like a damned hyena. “You keep telling yourself that, bro, and you might just start to believe it.”

If Luke could have reached through the phone, he’d have cheerfully choked his twin. “Did anyone ever tell you what a smart-ass you are, Jake?”

“You do just about every time we talk,” Jake declared, his continued laughter irritating Luke beyond words.

Luke took a deep breath. “We’ve spent more than enough time talking about me and my current situation. Can we get back to the real reason you woke me up in the middle of the night?”

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