Fall into my Heart (The Subzero Series, #1) (11 page)

Jack
brought one hand up and tenderly massaged one of my breasts while he shifted
his body slightly so that he could take the other one in his mouth. The sensual
feeling of his sucking, licking, touching and teasing my body became so intense
I felt like I was going to spontaneously combust right underneath him.

“Now,
Jack.....now.” I whispered.

Jack
kissed his way back up to my mouth, nipping my skin with his teeth along the
way. My lips parted with anticipation as he kissed higher and higher before he
finally plunged his tongue inside, massaging it against mine. Our kisses became
deeper, more desperate as he pushed inside me with one quick thrust of his
hips. We immediately fell into rhythm with each other with Jack quickly moving
in and out. He reached down, grabbed my wrist and pulled my arm above my head,
lacing his fingers with mine as he did. I moved my free hand up to run my
fingers through his hair just as Jack moved his head back, breaking off our
kiss and staring down at me.

“You’re
so beautiful.” Jack whispered.

I
opened my mouth to tell Jack how handsome I thought he was, but before I got
the chance to say anything at all, Jack brought his mouth back down to mine. We
took turns sucking and nipping at each other’s lips and tongues in between sweet,
passionate kisses. Our hands roamed each other’s bodies as our movements became
less quick and needy and more slow and sensual. In an instant we had gone from
having sex to making love and it was incredible. Suddenly, my body ignited with
complete and total euphoria as it trembled against his and moments later he did
the same.

“Wow.”
Jack said.

“Yeah.”
I agreed.

“Chloe.....uh.....I
don’t know the right way to ask this and I certainly don’t want to ruin the
moment, but are you the kind of girl that likes to talk about feelings and such
after.....”Jack trailed off.

“No,
I’m certainly not.” I said trying as hard as I could not to laugh.

Jack
breathed a sigh of relief and I thought I heard him mutter “Oh thank god,” as
he turned on his side and draped an arm around my waist. He pulled me close to
him and within seconds I was sound asleep in his arms.

~*~

I
felt like my eyes had just closed when Jacks alarm clock went off. Jack reached
over and smacked it until it stopped making noise. I groaned and draped an arm
over my face. I didn’t want to get up. I didn’t want to leave and I really
didn’t want to go in to work today. The perfectly sculpted naked man lying
beside me wasn’t making it any easier to get up either. I’d rather stay in bed
with him all day. Clothed, naked, it didn’t matter. Staying in this bed with
him would be a million times better than getting up and going in to work and
dealing with Julissa and her array of crap.

“Don’t
go.” Jack said, squeezing me closer to him.

“Mmmm.....I
have to.” I rubbed my eyes in an attempt to wake up.

I
had to get out of that bed. If I didn’t do it then, I didn’t think I would do
it at all. I went to climb out of bed but somehow during the night, I managed
to become tangled up in the sheets. In my struggle to get up, I ended up
rolling off of the bed and onto the floor.

Jack
peered over the side of the bed and shook his head. His blue eyes sparkled with
laughter and he was obviously, and smartly, doing everything he could to keep
his lips in a straight line. It didn’t last though. I shot him a faux dirty
look and he burst out laughing.

“Don’t
say a word.” I warned him.

“Wasn’t
gonna.” He said with a big goofy grin on his face. Jack climbed out of bed,
pulled on a pair of plaid pajama pants and walked over to my side to help me
up.

I
searched the room for my clothes that had been strewn about in the midst of our
passionate frenzy the night before. My pants were by the window, my shirt on
his dresser, my panties were halfway under the bed and, after spending far too
long searching, Jack found my bra that had somehow been launched into the
hallway. I dressed as quickly as I could and grabbed my purse and heels. I felt
like I was doing the walk of shame only I wasn’t anywhere close to feeling
ashamed by what happened between Jack and I and I was only walking across the
hall, so even if I was, no one would have noticed anyway.

“Are
you going out tonight?” He asked as he walked me to the door.

“Don’t
have any plans, are you?”

“Nah,
we’re gonna be in the recording studio the majority of the day. I’ll come over
if I don’t get in too late.”

I
paused at the door to give him a hug.

“Bye
beautiful.” He said leaning down to kiss my lips.

Two
hours later, I was showered, dressed and at work. As soon as I sat down, I wished
I would have stayed with Jack when he asked me to. It was only nine o’clock and
I already had 3 messages and an email from Julissa wanting to know what time
Jack would be picking her up and would he be in a limo and what would he be
wearing. Is there a classy way to respond and say
Me, Julissa, he will be
wearing me
?

After
debating for a few minutes over whether or not I should call her back, I
decided I didn’t feel like dealing with her and I tossed her messages aside. I
was sure she’d call another dozen times today. I’ll deal with her then.
Normally I would never even consider putting my work or my clients off like that
but she was just so.....so.....her. I’ve never met anyone before that made me want
to hurl my body off the roof and into oncoming traffic the way that she did and
I mean that in the nicest possible way.

Instead,
I decided to look up different things to do while my sister was in town. Not
exactly work but other than the diva, I was pretty much caught up and amazingly
I haven’t had a call yet today regarding the daily antics of the members of a
certain rock band, specifically anyone with a blue mohawk. I was in the middle
of checking out the nightlife section of the local newspapers website, when my
cell phone rang.

“Hey
Chloe, what’s up?” My brother’s voice came drifting through my phone.

“Nick.....what’s
going on?” I asked as I continued my fun things to do search.

“Nothing
really, you know, just wanted to see what you were up to.”

“What
I’m up to? I’m at work. You obviously want something, so how bout you just get
to it.”
Hmmm.....pottery painting, Abby’s artsy she might like that.....

“Have
you talked to Noelle?”

“Not
since she told me about you two doing the dirty.....why? You guys didn’t.....you
know.....again did you?”

Night
club glow paint party.....what the heck is that?

“No
it’s just.....well I haven’t heard from her.”

Now
he was starting to annoy me. “Isn’t that what you wanted?”

“Well
yeah or at least I thought so.”

I
shook my head. “So call her.”

“Well
I was thinking maybe you could talk to her first.” Nick said hopefully.

“Or
maybe you could get out of high school and call her yourself.” I hung up the
phone wondering how I could move to a completely different country and still
find myself wrapped up in all this drama.

“Hello
Chloe, What’s going on?” Jonathan asked, suddenly appearing in front of my
desk.

“Oh...um...not
much. Just, you know, work, work, work!” I frantically tried to hit the back
button on my computer, but it was frozen on the glow paint night club page. As
Jonathan sat down in front of me, I reached over to my monitor and turned it
off. I figured if I couldn’t get rid of the page, the least I could do was make
it so Jonathan couldn’t see what I was looking at.

“So
how are things going? You’re settling in just fine here right?” Jonathan face
showed the tiniest hint of worry on it.

“Yeah
things have been going great. Works great, life’s great,” I said studying
Jonathan’s face, “Why do you ask?”

“Well
I know you’re going home in a couple weeks. I wasn’t sure if being in the
states again would make you want to move back.” An apprehensive look came
across Jonathan’s face and I figured there was more to this than his wondering
about my vacation.

“Is
that it?” I asked cautiously.

“Well
no.....there are some rumors going around that Alexis is going to try to persuade
you to go back to New York and I was just wondering what you would say if she
asked you.”

Now
I have to admit, I was completely flattered! I’ve never had anyone fight over
me before, especially bosses! Now if I was egotistical, I would drag this on,
let them think I was torn over what to do and let them fight for me. Too bad
I’m not like that.....or maybe I am and I just haven’t realized it yet. Oh who am
I kidding? I glanced at Jonathan and realized he was staring at me with a
confused look on his face waiting for me to respond.

“Jonathan,
it really doesn’t matter what she would say to me. I have a life here.  I like
it here. I’m just going to New York to celebrate Christmas with my family and
then I’ll be back. I promise.” I told him.

“Alright,
glad to hear it.” Jonathan said with a satisfied look. He went to stand up, and
just as he did, my computer decided to unfreeze itself. Loud club music began
to fill my office. Jonathan reached over my desk and turned my monitor on,
showing the both of us video of half-naked guys and girls, drenched in glow
paint and jumping up and down. Jonathan glanced at me and raised an eyebrow.

I
pressed my lips together and my eyes opened up wide. I wanted to die.
“Ummm.....research?” I said timidly.

“Ok.....well.....
I’ll let you get back to it then.” Jonathan quickly walked out of my office.

I
covered my face with my hands and shook my head. That was so embarrassing! How
does this stuff always happen to me?

~*~

Around
midnight my cell phone rang, jolting me awake.

“Hello?”
I asked sleepily.

“Hey
Chloe.....Did I wake you?” Jack’s velvety smooth voice filled my ears.

“Jack?”

“Yeah,
sorry, I shouldn’t have called you so late. I just wanted to hear your voice.”

“It’s
okay......Where are you?”

“Outside.
I just got out of my truck.”

“Come
over.”

“Are
you sure?”

“Yes,
get up here.”

We
disconnected and I ran into the bathroom to brush my teeth and make sure that
my hair looked somewhat decent. I spritzed with two squirts of jasmine vanilla
body spray just as I heard Jack knock on my door. My heart skipped a beat as I
opened the door and saw Jack standing there with a crooked smile on his face.

“I
wasn’t gonna call because it was so late, but I sorta missed you today.”

“Just
sorta?” I asked sticking out my lower lip.

“Yeah
just sorta.” Jack teased as he leaned down to brush a sweet kiss across my lips.

“Are
you hungry?” I asked, “I specialize in soup, sandwiches, cereal and anything
that heats up in the microwave.”

“Sounds
like a tasty variety but I already ate. I’m actually pretty tired. I just
wanted to see you real quick before I go to bed.” Jack said.

“You
could stay here with me.” I said.

Jack
smiled. “I was actually kind of hoping you would say that.”

We
settle into bed, underneath my thick purple comforter, cuddled up close and
immediately fell asleep. When I woke up the next morning, Jack was gone. I
stumbled into the kitchen and on my counter was a note that read.....

Didn’t want to wake you. Had to go back
to the studio. Call you later.

~Jack

I
sat down the couch feeling disappointed. Then it hit me that my sister was
coming in four days and I had a lot of stuff to do yet. It was probably better
he had left. I don’t seem to get much done when he’s around.....not that I’m
complaining. It’s just hard to focus and get anything done when I have those
sapphire blue eyes staring at me and he’s saying things to me in his sexy
British accent and his perfectly full lips are.....anyway, you get the point.

My
first stop was to go to this home store by where I work. It’s one of those
amazing stores that literally have everything you could ever possibly want for
your house. I walked in with every intention of only buying a coffee pot and a
crock pot. As a matter of fact, I kept telling myself that those were the only
two things I was getting as I walked through the store.

I
quickly selected the crock pot and coffee pot that I had seen online and was on
my way up to the cashier when I saw them. Christmas decorations. Seeing them
made me realize I didn’t have a single decoration at my condo. Not one.  I’m
not going to be there for Christmas but I didn’t think that really mattered.
How was I supposed to get into the Christmas spirit if I had nothing up to arouse
my inner elf? Well, this was something I needed to remedy ASAP.

I
walked up to the front of the store, dumped the crock pot and coffee pot into a
cart and headed back to the decorations. I found dishes that had the cutest
little gingerbread on them. Everyone should have at least one nice set of
Christmas dishes right? It would be like a Christmas injustice if I didn’t buy
these, so I put them in my cart. Then, of course, I had to get the matching
bowls, glasses and salt and pepper shakers. I tossed four nutcrackers, a
reindeer, three silver snowflakes, a thing of lighted garland, a peppermint
bark candle, a candle holder that looked like a snowman, a 3ft Santa and a
nativity set in the cart. I was about to head up to the cashier when I decided
to grab four red and four green oversized Christmas balls, even though I had no
clue what I was going to do with them.

As
I lugged everything around the subway, I started to regret the 3ft Santa. It
was hard to carry him and my bags at the same time. I wanted to kick him down
the street but there were kids outside. I certainly didn’t want to taint their
innocence by becoming the Grinch who assaulted Santa all the way home. By the
time I got home, I hated the damn thing. It took everything I had to not hang
him from my balcony with the garland. Again, though, I restrained myself.....for
the kids. I tossed everything into a corner inside my front door and ventured
back out. This time, I was off to the grocery store.