Loving Vin (Barretti Security Series, #1) by Sloane Kennedy Page A

she’d watched in silence as he drank his fill of her. And when he’d reached out his hand to help her out of the water, she hadn’t hesitated. He’d taken his time drying her off before leading her to his bed and covering her with one of his big T-shirts. Vin had handed her a sandwich which she’d sat cross-legged in the middle of the bed and eaten while he’d disappeared into the bathroom. He returned within a few minutes, his hair damp and just a towel covering his lean hips.
    Her mouth had gone dry at the sight of his amazing body and she’d watched in silence as he removed the plate from her lap and put it on the nightstand. Seconds later he was pushing her down and covering her body with his, his mouth seeking hers out. As sore as she was, she gladly opened herself completely to him but he didn’t enter her. Instead, he’d slid his cock slowly back and forth over her clit until she came and then he’d shot all over her stomach as his mouth captured her moans of pleasure. In the shower that followed, he’d dragged one more orgasm out of her when she didn’t think it was possible and everything after that was lost to her until she woke up this morning in his arms. Besides the few words of praise he murmured against her ear as he pleasured her, they hadn’t spoken at all.
    “What is that?” Vin asked her as she grabbed the half-full garbage bag.
    “I thought I’d take my things this morning so I’d have less to grab when Dom brings me back to get the animals,” she said as she moved past him.
    He snagged her arm and took the bag from her, his eyes darkening momentarily. Before she could question him, he tossed the bag back onto her bed. He grabbed her hand as he walked past and practically dragged her towards the stairs.
    “Don’t ask what it means because I can’t promise you’ll like the answer,” he said in warning.
    She already suspected the answer because she was struggling with something similar. Except where he was trying to find a way to work her out of his system, she was trying to figure out how to work him out of her heart because she no longer had any doubt. She was already starting to fall in love with him.
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    “T alk to me, Vin,” Dom said as he closed the door to Vin’s office. “Twenty-four hours ago you were begging me to take her and now you just happened to change your mind? Just like that?”
    “What do you want me to say, Dom?” Vin said with a sigh as he pushed the keyboard in front of him away.
    “I want you to say that whatever is going on between you and her isn’t going to do end up breaking you like Elise almost did,” Dom said as he sat down.
    “She’s not like Elise,” Vin automatically said, his need to defend Mia greater than his need to deny what his brother already clearly saw.
    “I know she’s probably not going to fuck around on you-” Dom began.
    “Elise was pregnant.” Vin could tell he’d managed to shock his brother into complete silence so he continued. “She told me it was mine,” he said quietly. “I knew she was fucking a couple other guys but I didn’t want to risk losing the baby if I was the father so I paid for everything for her – apartment, doctor’s bills, car...everything.”
    “Jesus,” Dom whispered.
    “Within weeks she was demanding more and more money and when I finally told her no more, she threatened to have an abortion. We reached a deal – I gave her half a million up front with a guarantee of another half a million once she carried the baby to term and signed away her parental rights when it was born. Two weeks after I gave her the first payment, she aborted the baby and sent me an It’s a girl birth announcement card. Bitch actually had the back alley doctor do an ultrasound to determine the baby’s sex before he did the abortion. She was almost five months along.”
    “Oh God, Vin,” Dom muttered.
    “Mia is nothing like her,” Vin repeated.
    Dom nodded but Vin could tell he was still struggling with