Bad Girl Lessons by Seraphina Donavan, Wicked Muse

who is. She was his warning, from what I understand.”
    Evie shivered, “Poor Lisa. Nobody deserves to end up like that.”
    Jackson laid down on the bed beside her, brining her hand to his lips for a quick kiss. “Trevor won’t get near you again. And when all this is over with, you and I are going to have a long talk.”
    “I’m not going anywhere... Let’s have it now.”
    Rolling onto his elbow, Jackson met her gaze. It was steady, if somewhat dulled by the pain medication she’d been given. “I want you to move out of your apartment and move in with me.”
    “For how long?”
    “Dammit, Evie! What do you mean for how long? I’m asking you to move in with me. I don’t have an expiration date for our relationship.” He ran his fingers through his hair in an exasperated gesture. It was one that Evie recognized very well. She’d seen it a dozen times before when he’d been attempting to extricate himself from the clutches of some weeping woman. He had never intentionally broken hearts, and to her knowledge, he’d never been one to break promises, for the simple fact that he had always avoided making them.
    “This is where it starts to get a little murky, Jackson Cope. Because my understanding of the matter is that we aren’t having a relationship. You, as a general rule, don’t do relationships.”
    “Haven’t... Past tense. I know I have a reputation in this town for being womanizer, but I’ve never made promises to a woman and not kept them. I’ve never lied. I want you to move in with me, Evie and I want us to be together.”
    “Monogamously?”
    He smiled, “Unless you want to invite Cass over for a little girl on girl action, yes.”
    With the tray over her lap, Evie couldn’t hit him the way she wanted to. Instead, she leaned over slightly, grabbed a handful of chest hair and yanked. “A three way with Cass? Really? You think bringing that up in the middle of this conversation is a good idea?”
    He laughed and rubbed his chest, “I was only teasing. I don’t want to share you with anyone. Including Cass. Will you move in with me?”
    Evie looked around at the rented house that didn’t reflect anything of the man she knew and certainly didn’t reflect anything about her. It was also the place where he’d brought all of his many conquests to. “I will, but not here.”
    Jackson looked around at the perfectly functional house, “Why not?”
    “If I am going to live in sin with you, I want to do it in full view of the entirety of Gresham County, Mississippi. I’m not hiding out in the backwaters...Besides, I found the house I want to buy.”
    He grinned, “Does this mean I get to be your kept man?”
    Evie set the tray aside and lay back against the pillows. “Maybe you ought to demonstrate what I might want to keep you around for.”
    Jackson didn’t need to be asked twice. He rolled over, pinning her to the bed, but kept his weight off of her. Bruised and battered as she was, he wanted to make her feel better and not worse. “Didn’t the doctor tell you to take it easy?”
    “I intend to,” she said with a smile, “I’m just gonna lay back and let you do all the work.”
    He kissed her then, catching her bottom lip between his teeth with a gentle nip. He’d kissed more women in his life than he ought to ever admit to, but Evie had the softest lips he’d ever encountered. When his lips touched hers, he didn’t want to stop, and when her tongue slid sensually against his, and he could taste the sweetness of her mouth, there was nothing in the world that he wanted more. Her teeth nipped at his lip in the sweetest retaliation and his whole body shuddered in response. She could drive him to the brink quicker than anyone else. Tugging back the sheets, he looked at the long expanse of her gorgeous legs, exposed beneath the hem of the shirt he’d given her to wear. The hem barely covered her behind and the soft mound of her pussy. The fabric strained across her chest, the