Forgive Me (Callaway Book 2) by Kaithlin Shepherd

calmly.
    "Because I want you so much, and it's all I can think about, and it's not fair that you're this hot." She turned her head back to face the passenger window. When he didn't speak, she unbuckled her seatbelt and her hand went to the handle.
    Before she could climb out of his truck, he reached for her shoulder, smiling when she jumped a little at his touch. He moved his body across the console so his mouth was right beside her ear and gave her the words that would change everything. "You have me, Amanda. You've always had me."
     
     

Chapter Five
    Five in the morning came way too soon. He rolled out of bed, his aching muscles urging him to go back to bed, but he couldn't. For the past two weeks, he'd been working twenty hours a day between fixing Amanda's place and the work that still needed to be done on the ranch. They were making good progress on the house, and everyone was giving it their all, but he could tell they were feeling the exhaustion.
    He walked into the shower, letting the warm water ease the ache in his muscles. Everything in his body went lax under the water except his cock, which had been permanently hard for the past few weeks. Amanda had been at the house almost every day, doing whatever she could to help them, and having her around looking all sweet and damn gorgeous was torture. The first day, she greeted them wearing those damn cut-off shorts that made her ass look perfect. When he caught Owen looking at her ass, he all but killed the man. The next day, she was right there on her front porch wearing a sundress that made his mouth water, showing off her curves. She was driving him insane, and the worst part was she had no idea she was doing it.
    He stepped out of the shower, cursing that he didn't have time to find release, knowing he would be walking around with a hard-on all day. He got dressed and headed downstairs, following the sound of his brothers messing around in the kitchen.
    "Fuck, every inch hurts." He knew John was feeling the physical nature of the work more than any of them; that was what he got for spending so much damn time behind his desk crunching numbers.
    "I'm with you, man. When did we get this fucking old?" He laughed as he listened to Nick. If there was one thing his brother wasn't, it was old, unless you qualified your late twenties as old.
    He walked into the kitchen and slapped Nick across the back of the head. "Stop complaining. You guys are worse than a bunch of women."
    "We're not the ones doing this to get laid." The room fell silent as Nick's words lingered in the room. Drew's fists clenched at his side, battling the urge to use them on his brother's face.
    "What did you just say?" he asked, anger laced through his voice.
    "You heard me." As soon as Nick finished speaking, Drew had him backed against the kitchen wall, his arm pressing down on his neck.
    "Don't ever fucking say that shit again, Nick, or so help me God, you'll be hurting for a different reason. You don't ever disrespect her like that." The urge to kick his brother's ass was overwhelming.
    Just when he was about to wipe the smirk right off Nick's face, he felt a hand on his shoulder, and heard Cole's voice. "Drew, calm down."
    Drew let Nick go and backed away before turning around to face Cole. "Don't tell me to fucking calm down, Cole. What if it was Jamie he was talking about? Amanda is not just some piece of ass. She's everything. You better start accepting it, because she's not going anywhere." He looked straight at Nick as he spoke the last words, making sure his brother got the message loud and clear. He wouldn't stand for anyone talking down about Amanda.
    Nick lifted his arms. "Okay, man, I'm sorry. I was just kidding around. I didn't mean anything by it. We good?"
    Shit, he was fucking losing it, getting up in his brother's face like that. He ran his hands over his scruff as he answered, "Yeah."
    Drew grabbed a cup of coffee and sat down. As he did at the same time, John asked him the one