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Chapter One

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CAGE

It was really happening I was going to finish college I had a full-ride scholarship,thanks to baseball It wasn’t SEC, but it was still a NCAA college Only probleo with est fan, but he’d send her to college in Tennessee if she asked hi them two at a ti to get a degree I’d be able to have a real job one day I wasn’t the loser her dad thought I was

I flung open the door to the apart at her piano whenand s was okay I had ive us both a future

She studied ot it," she said, looking up at me as she wrapped her arot it," I replied, hauling her againstood

I enjoyed the taste of her before pulling back and staring down into her eyes I loved her eyes The way they lit up when she was excited Knowing I’d put that look there made it even better

"Where to?" she asked

"Hill State," I replied Her smile didn’t falter The small sliver of fear that she wouldn’t be happy or that she wouldn’t go with e! I’ you wanted! You did it!" I slipped my hands in her hair and cradled her head

"No, Eva You’re everything I wanted This is just the insurance that I can provide for you the way you deserve"

She slid her arms up my chest and locked her hands behind my neck "As sweet as that is, I want you to do this for you, too Not just for me This is what you wanted You’ve wanted it since before Ibefore I came into your life"

There were still tiet it Thereed My life had a irl Don’t forget that"

She ran a finger downwith it throughto talk ratulations, because you just did"

I chuckled as she grabbed my shirt and pulled it up I lifted round and then flashed a wicked set old You know that right? Seeing this perfectly sculpted body decorated with piercings is hot, Cage York"

When I’d gotten my first nipple pierced, it had been strictly for pleasure Never had I iined that proper little Eva would be so turned on by it I’d gladly gotten the other one pierced for her Whatevernaughty while you undressher up and carrying her back to our bedrooroaned I needed to get her naked

"I liked it on the bar the other night," she said, looking back toward the kitchen

I stopped walking toward the room and turned and headed for the bar instead If she wanted it on the bar, then the bar here she would get it "What’d you like best about the bar, hs over my shoulders when I slid inside you?"

Eva shivered in my arms and squirmed "Both Always both"

"Good Me too," I replied, standing her on the kitchen floor before pulling her shorts down to pool at her feet then jerking her T-shirt off She wasn’t wearing a bra It was a rule: When ere ho, I pressed a kiss to one of her hard nipples before slipping ain

This was going to work I was going to be worthy of Eva’s love Her dad had been wrong I wasn’t going to be Eva’s biggest e’s arhty fun sex on the bar, we had entle He’d been so excited I was proud of hi for I had known he’d do it, but he hadn’t been so sure

Without his steady gaze watching oing to pay for ot a job, I wouldn’t be able to go too unless ly accepted e, but that was it He hadn’t approved He was sure that Cage was going to break e Telling Cage about my concern before I’d talked toabout how he could get h on his achievement He had etting me there too That was my proble out of his aro call my dad and see if he wanted to have lunch with e Maybe he’d like this idea

I closed the bedroo e that he couldn’t wake up and hear me I was nervous as I stood under the raised apartments we lived in that sat directly on the beach I tried to focus on the waves and the beauty of the gulf in front of me

"About ti I had called hio and talked to him It wasn’t like I didn’t call often He just liked to fuss about it