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Authors: Donna Michaels
Jack blinked,
then glanced from her to his mother as understanding finally dawned in his
eyes. He hitched a thumb at her. “She’s
the girl
?”
“Yes,
she’s
the girl,” his parents all but yelled.
Brielle laughed,
having had a similar revelation. She turned to Jack and smiled. “Then you must
be the son of my uncle’s good friends?”
Jack’s lips
twitched. “It would seem so.”
Yeah, that’s
what she thought. She glanced at her uncle and lifted her shoulders. “Oops.”
“Oops? Oops?”
Uncle Franco threw his hands in the air, turning in a circle. “Is that all you
can say?”
No. She could
say she was sorry she’d backed out on at least four attempts her uncle had made
to try to get her to go out with Jack. And, dang, she
was
sorry. Really,
really sorry.
But, the host
chose that moment to step through the crowd and retake the reins of his show.
“I think maybe
now is a good time to ask the question,” Greg said, stepping up to her and Jack,
a big smile on his perfect, tanned face.
Brielle blinked,
having momentarily forgotten the host’s presence and the fact they were on a
show. Cripes. She needed a vacation. Bad. One with Jack would be great. Her
heartbeats picked up as she eyed the host. Maybe this show would send them
somewhere. After all, heaven help them, they just provided the studio weeks of
footage of the two of them making big fools of themselves.
Jack glanced
from her to the man with the million dollar smile, then cocked his head. “And
what question would that be, Greg?”
The host smiled
broadly and asked in a clear, loud voice, “Jack Anderson, did you or did you
not,
meet your mate
?”
Her throat
caught. Okay, totally not what she had expected. The question hung in the air
like the morning smog, heavy and suppressing, with the possibility of sun.
Brielle swallowed and waited, barely daring to breathe. Jack’s answer held the
key to her happiness.
He turned to
her, gaze searching and a little bit unsure. “Yes, I did…if she’ll have me.”
Have him?
Brielle sucked
in a breath and smiled, not bothering to hide the tears suddenly burning her
eyes. “You bet I will.”
Jack’s audible
exhale hit her ears a moment before she launched herself at him, letting out
her own sigh when he crushed her close, hands deliciously warm on her bared
back, face buried in her neck.
Heaven. Home.
They were one
in the same with this man.
She locked her
hands behind his head and held tight. Excited shouts filled the room, but
Brielle paid them no mind, too caught up listening to Jack’s heart beating
steady and sure under her ear.
“I don’t know
what’s with that
meet your mate
question,” Sophia said, and Brielle
watched the woman step closer, waving her hand at Greg before she placed both
of them on her hips and stared right at her. “What I want to know, Brielle, is
do you love my son?”
Jack went
stock-still, his heart now thundering in his chest. She drew back to stare into
his pale, apprehensive face. How could he not know how she felt? The room grew
quiet and cameras zoomed in. With her own pulse pounding loud enough to beat
the band, she turned her gaze to Sophia.
“
That
son,” she said, pointing to Matthew. “I have a few more words for, but
this
one.” She gazed up into Jack’s somber, anxious eyes. “This one I love very,
very much.”
Her admission
cleared the clouds from his expression and his blue eyes warmed, glowing like a
brilliant, summer sky.
“Brielle,” he
said very softly, cupping her face in both hands, testing her restraint, then
completely blew it out of the water with his next words. “I didn’t dare hope
after the way I treated you. I knew I loved you, but I—”
“You love me?”
she whispered, her throat caught, smile and tears rushing together in a
blatant, honest show of emotions she needed him to see.
“Hell, yeah…”
He kissed her
then. Not long and deep and drugging, but soft and tender and so achingly sweet
her whole body trembled.
He drew back to
gently kiss the tears from her face, then pressed his forehead to hers. “I
can’t believe how lucky I am, and that you didn’t tell me to hit the road,
Jack.”
She choked out a
laugh and stared into his tender gaze. The reality of what she’d just
gained—all because of a television show—filled her heart to the point of
bursting. This time around, Brielle Chapman came out the winner.
“Great song, but
I would never tell you to go.”
His lips
twitched. “You wouldn’t?”
“Nope.” Ignoring
their onlookers and the world, she ran her hands up his delicious torso, and
loving the feel of his rock, hard muscles, she patted his chest. “You should
know by now—you can’t
dodge
me…Dodger.”
Brielle grasped
his lapels and pulled the sexy, smiling man toward her, meeting his lips,
pouring everything she had—love, fear, heat and affection into a kiss
completely devoid of disguise.
Jack groaned in
response, fisting his hands in her hair. And in front of their family and
friends, and for the whole world to see, he kissed her without restraint, as if
to show everyone he claimed
her
the owner of his heart.
“And there you
have it, folks.” Greg’s voice floated by her in a cloud. “This has been another
successful show. I’m your host, Greg Phelps. Tune in this fall for another
season of
Meet Your Mate
.”
***
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