Are You Sh!tting Me (Modern Cliches, #3)

The Kiss

What do you expect happens here? Bubbly and filled with joy knocks my socks off with one helluva kiss. I'm seriously starting to fall in love with my sweet little baby vamp himbo.

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I was still struck nearly dumb by what Laritzia had told me that Jake finishing up the inventory and us leaving was basically just a haze. She wanted to be partners with me, in a business, as in business partners. All because I had gotten Jake a job counting books. I was floored and I didn't know exactly how to respond or what to say to it all. I didn't know anything about running a business, Laritzia did, she had like six from what I had gleaned from working with her. Her bookstore was her baby, her very first one she had since moving from wherever in Europe she was from.

But still. A fucking business partner.

Me.

A weirdo who liked to chase after cryptids and got lost in researching stupid shit that no one else would have wanted to touch with a ten foot pole.

Me.

A perpetually tired, riddled with insomnia brain, stunted wreck that was trying hard to defeat her libido from jumping crotch first at a sexy blond haired blue eyed surfer baby vampire.

I loved her but I honestly believed she was crazy. There was no other reason for the fact she would have chosen me to be a business partner and she had insisted on it. She told me that I was a reliable employee, if a bit tired, and she really wanted to keep me working and she wondered if helping run the midnight inventory and staying up at night would help my sleep cycle. She needed someone she could trust to run the basic business functions during the open hours of dusk till dawn and where she could take over when the business closed for the day.

I mean I got the logistics of it. I was one of her senior employees and she had given me a lot of responsibility through the years I had worked for her but that was different than a business partner. There was so much responsibility that came with the very idea of it that I damn near wanted to crap my pants when she kept firmly insisting upon in. I certainly didn't trust myself with that much responsibility so I had no clue why she was trusting me with it.

"I did good right?" Jake's voice brought me to the present and I blinked up at him. He looked so eager and happy that I felt a bit of the tension inside of me slip away. "Like she thought I did good?" He looked so concerned and excited at the same time and I thought he looked fucking adorable as he nearly vibrated from excitement as I kicked my shoes off.

"She was impressed." More than impressed, Laritzia was damn near ready to lock him in a basement somewhere so no one else could scalp the talent for her newest business venture. She had been rather firm with me to not let him slip away before she could work out the details to get him started.

"Yes!" I watched as he did a little dance, a smile curling up the corners of my mouth as I leaned against the front door. He looked so fucking excited and happy that it was nearly infectious. However after a few moments he stopped and his expression fell. "This is fucking gnarly. I finished in one day. Normally that is totally wicked but now I don't have a job for the rest of the week." He sounded so morose that my heart nearly turned over in my chest.

I pushed away from the door and walked over to him, pulling him into a hug. "It's alright." I rubbed at his back and it didn't take him long to hug me back, nuzzling my neck slightly. I beat back my libido as I let him go and coughed slightly before moving into the kitchen. "She was so impressed that she is paying you for the full four days anyway." I set my bag and my keys on the table before turning to look at him. He was once again grinning at me. I coughed again, trying to hide the blush that was slowly crawling up my cheeks.

"Really?" He clasped his hands together in front of him as he rocked back and forth on his feet and I nodded.

"She was also so impressed that she is going to start a midnight inventory business and hire you for full time work in her other businesses." I left out my part in it, I didn't want to think about it at the moment. My brain was already having a hard enough time grasping the information. It was best to not do that while I was already fucking exhausted. It was four in the morning and I should have been to sleep hours ago but I was with Jake and I honestly enjoyed being there watching him work.

"You're fucking with me." Jake's mouth had dropped open and I shook my head.

"She one hundred percent said that. I told her you were a genius with numbers and you lived up to it and more. You really proved yourself. She said if I could find more of you that she would be ecstatic." I rubbed at the back of my neck with a wince. "You really proved yourself tonight, Jake. You did very well. I'm proud." I was. I really honestly was. He had gone from a skinny, half starved, smelly, homeless vampire to what he was now. A nearly fully functional human being. Minus the whole vampire aspect.

"Me? You put it all together, Sammi. I'd be fucking lost without you." At the words I risked a glance at him and he was giving me that adoring look again, the one where adoration made his blue eyes almost glimmer. At that my cheeks went full blown super heated tomato and I nearly sputtered. I didn't know how to handle that look. I honestly didn't.

"It was nothing." I muttered the words out. I didn't know how to respond to his adoration. I honestly didn't. He was too damned attractive to be looking at me like that. I wasn't in his league, I was so far below his level it wasn't even funny.

"It was everything. I could kiss you right now for all you have done." Well then my libido was wide awake and raring to go at that statement. I damn near choked as my eyes went wide and my ears started to burn with heat.

Well fuck.

What the fuck was I supposed to do with that?

Apparently not much because Jake suddenly wrapped me up in one of his wonderful hugs before he did as he said and he fucking kissed me. I didn't know if he had wanted to keep it soft and chaste but the moment he kissed me my libido took over and I kissed him hard in return.

Match meet gas.

My head went dizzy as pure octane lust hit my libido gas tank and all cylinders were running on the get into hot and dreamy's pants right fucking now. Then he had to do this thing with his tongue that made me literally blank out for half a minute. I literally felt like he had blown the back of my skull out and set me into a different universe that was all heat, hands, and hormones.

A clanging had us pulling apart, breathing heavy. I was sitting on the table, Jake was gripping my hips rightly, and my hands were in his hair and we both looked at the metal vase our antics had knocked onto the floor.

Fuck.

I glanced at Jake as I slowly pulled my hands from his super soft hair that I wanted to keep holding onto for eternity. He looked nearly dark and dangerous as he glared dagger at the vase that had startled us into separating. His hands flexed on my hips and I had to bite back a groan at the feeling it brought me.

"That was fucking gnarly." He hissed the words out before he met my eyes. "Kissing you on the other hand..." His voice trailed off as his gaze landed on my lips and his hands flexed once more on my hips before he gave me a squeeze. "That was fucking wicked." He breathed the word out and I swallowed hard, feeling all sorts of turned on. "We are going to do that again, right?" He didn't look away from my lips as he asked it and I nodded, not trusting my voice at all.

Fuck.

Oh fucking hell.

What the fuck just happened?

Tall, blond, and bubbly just kissed the good sense right out of my head because I was pretty sure that if he kept kissing me like that a broken pelvis would definitely be in my future as I let him bang me through a fucking wall.