Free Building Our Love (Griffin Brothers #2) by Crystal Perkins

and after hearing her plans, I
gave her the interior design job for the Seattle building.” I look
over at Owen. “She’ll be contacting you soon about the art. She
wants edgy and fun instead of the usual corporate stuff.”
    “Really? Wow, I can’t
wait. But if it’s not work, then what did you screw up with her?
You aren’t with her again, are you?”
    “No, but I want to
be. It’s always been only her for me.”
    “I called it last
month when you were coming home from her place. I told you I thought
you would want more, that your ‘sex only’ deal wasn’t going to
fly for long,” Luke reminds me.
    “You were at her
place all night? And what the hell does Luke mean by a ‘sex only’
deal?” Scott asks me and he’s honestly looking a little pissed
now.
    “Yes, I was at her
place. As for the deal, I need to explain everything to you guys.
Then, I need your advice and help.”
    “You’ve got it,
man. Whatever you need. Now enlighten us,” Luke tells me with a
smile.
    “I’ll hold my
opinion until you finish, but I’m honestly a little pissed right
now. What Chloe did to you was inexcusable, but she doesn’t deserve
to be fucked around with just for fun.” Scott’s eyes are blazing.
    “I know, Scott.
That’s why I need your help. Let me explain and then you can punch
me if you want to.” He nods. “I don’t think Danny and Sean know
my background with Chloe, do you?” They shake their heads. “I
don’t want to spend a lot of time on it, so here’s the short
version. I have known Chloe since she was 11, and I was 14. We were
really good friends. I dated girls, but no one ever seemed right.
When I was almost 17, I realized that it was because no one else was
Chloe. I asked her parents if I could date her, and I kissed her on
her 14th birthday in our treehouse. We were together for five years,
and I waited for her to be ready to have sex with me all that time. I
was so happy with her that I really didn’t care. We did other
things, but it wasn’t until she was 19, and I was 22, that we made
love for the first time. The next day, she dumped me and started
dating the douchebag son of one of my dad’s biggest competitors.”
    “Jesus. And you want
her back?” Danny looks at me like I’m crazy.
    I nod. “I do. I have
a hard time believing that she left me without a good reason, and
having her back in my life these last few weeks has made me realize
how much I still love her. I know that she still loves me. I can see
it in her eyes.”
    “So, she’s back and
you both love each other. You seem willing to forgive her. What’s
the problem?” Sean asks.
    “The problem is that
I have been behaving like the biggest asshole on the planet. She told
me last night that she’s had enough. Honestly I don’t blame her.”
I hang my head, resigned.
    “Tell us what you
did, bro,” Scott says to me. “You all know what a bastard I was
to Yas, but she took me back.”
    I take a deep breath
and begin. “A couple weeks after she came to work for me, she said
that she wanted me back. I told her that I would only have her for
sex and only for my pleasure, but I didn’t want her to say I was
sexually harassing her. She typed up a document and signed it saying
that whatever happened between us was not sexual harassment. Then she
got on her knees and took care of me. She did it every day for the
next two weeks.”
    “Wait a minute. You
told her she could only blow you, and she not only agreed but signed
some paper and then did it for two weeks?” Owen is looking at me in
disbelief.
    “Yes and no. I didn’t
tell her she could only ‘blow me’, as you so eloquently put it.
But I did tell her that I didn’t care if she came or not. It just
happened that we didn’t do anything else those two weeks. I was
afraid that if I even kissed her, I would give in to my feelings for
her.”
    “So what happened
next? You came home minus a shirt, so I don’t think she only went
down on you that night,” Luke