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“It’ll be all yours when I’m done. Now wait your turn like a good boy.” Tell me why my dick twitches when she says that?
“Shit. Someone’s at my door.” I tiptoe across the room and peer into the peephole. “It’s Neighbor Man,” I whisper. “Open the door,” Aarya whispers back. “He probably wants to talk about the article.” “Why are you whispering too?” “I don’t know.” “What do you think he wants?” The deep voice on the other side of the door speaks. “I can hear you whispering, you know.”
“Gumption.” I smirk. “Is that what you call it when someone is a royal pain in the ass?” She smacks me on the back of my head. “Watch your mouth.” “Ow. How can you still hit as hard as you did when I was a kid?” “Obviously I’m not hitting you hard enough if you’re still using words like that.”
“What can I bring to dinner?” She lifts the laundry basket and takes a few steps back. “If you want me to be flirty, then bring wine. If you want me to take off my top and dance on the table, then bring tequila. And if you want me to be happy, then bring mint chocolate chip ice cream—the green kind with big chocolate chunks in it.” My eyebrows hit my hairline. “This is a test, isn’t it?” “Choose wisely, Neighbor Man.” She winks. “See you at six.”
“How did they end?” “Usually with my parents getting hit by a bus or tossed off a cliff.” He sputters. “Really?” “Don’t judge. It was my coping skill.”
He arches a brow. “And my personality says smoky BBQ guy?” The smoking-hot man who’s char-grilled and bitter on the outside, but deliciously tender on the inside? Yeah, my money’s on BBQ. I hide my smirk. “Just a hunch.”
I stand there for several minutes after he walks out of my apartment. That makes three. Three times this man has caused me to change my underwear. I’ve gotta up my game.
“Do you think anyone saw us?” “To be honest, I don’t really care.” “And why’s that?” “I didn’t kiss you for them.” “Then why did you?” “Because I couldn’t wait one more second to find out what you taste like.”
I pull myself off the couch with a whine, and stomp over to the door. I hold my breath and count to three in my head before opening the door. My mouth falls open. “There’re flowers, aren’t there?” “A giant bouquet of red roses.” I crouch down and snatch the card. Red is officially my new favorite color. And you’re my new favorite flavor. —Neighbor Man Wetness pools between my legs. “Damn, this guy is good.” “He wrote you something freaky in his card, didn’t he?” I chuckle. “Maybe.”
“Hey, Warden. What are you reading over there?” I glance two rows ahead of me. “My girl’s book.” McKinley waggles his eyebrows. “I heard your girl writes porn.” “We watch it; women read it. It’s all the same in the end.”
“Imagine your wife waking up and not remembering who you are?” Stamos grunts. “I’d make her fall in love with me all over again.” “Or I’d sneak in and convince her to be with me instead.” Stamos punches him in the arm. “You fucking wish.”
“I think I’d like to bury her.” She wipes her nose with the back of her hand. “Maybe by the tree I found her nest near when I rescued her and her brother.” My head tilts. “Candy had a brother?” She nods. “She pecked him to death.” I can’t help my reaction. “She what?” “I rescued them and wanted to keep them together because they were family, you know? But apparently, they weren’t supposed to live confined in the same cage. One day, I came home and found her brother on the bottom of the cage, blood and feathers everywhere. She pecked him to death.” Jesus Christ. Well, now her name makes perfect
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“You’re ruining me, Cassidy Quinn.” I smile at that. “Good.” Because you’ve already ruined me.
“I’m sorry I scared you tonight.” “It’s not your fault. It’s that asswipe Petroski’s fault.” My hands ball into fists. “I should’ve waited for him in the parking lot and backed my car into him.” Trenton chuckles. “So much violence inside such a small person.”
“Where’s Trent today?” I chew my bottom lip. “I don’t know. I haven’t seen him in a few days.” “Ah. You had a fight.” I nod. “I don’t know what to do.” Sherry sets down three Kings. “What did he do?” “How do you know it was him?” “Because if it was something you did, you’d know what to do to try to fix it.” Alzheimer’s be damned, this woman is perceptive.
