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“Are you watching, Mom?” I mutter the question quietly and lift my left hand to the mouthpiece on my helmet and kiss the rose tattoo inked between my thumb and pointer finger. “This one’s for you. Happy birthday.”
“You want to play nice?” No, baby. I want to play dirty. Naked and really dirty. “For today anyway.”
“If you want to see me naked, all you gotta do is ask, princess.” “Skinny guys don’t really do it for me.” She turns on her heel. The fuck? I toss my shirt to the side. “I’m not skinny. I’m lean.”
He looks like an advertisement for bad boys, and everything inside of me screams, sign me the hell up.
“Lots of people think I won’t get back to where I was before.” “You’ll prove them wrong, princess.”
“You’ve done everything I asked, so tonight, you can order me around.” Knox hands me his helmet with a wicked smile I feel all the way to my toes. “Get on.”
“I’ll give you twenty bucks if you let me drive her around.” “I wouldn’t let you lay a finger on her for twenty bucks.” “The bike or the girl?” He smirks and lets his gaze slide over to me. Knox gets off the bike and holds out a hand to me. “Either, but especially not the girl.”
“You did win.” I shrug. “And you’re in charge tonight, remember? So whatever you want.” “That’s a dangerous thing to say to me, princess.” He lowers his voice. “I’d have you bent over my bike so fast you wouldn’t know which way was up.”
“Luckily, what we want right now is the same.” His lips take mine. Hard and controlling from the moment they touch me. I open immediately and his tongue sweeps in, stroking mine. A person could get lost in Knox’s kisses. I do. I never want to stop.
“Why’d you run away instead of telling me all this at the bar? Hoping I’d chase you?” “No. I promise I did not expect you to show up here.” “Good. I don’t chase.” “But here you are anyway.”
I like him so much it actually hurts a little. “I missed you.” A beat passes, and then he says, “I missed you too.” I bury my smile into his chest and wrap my arm around his middle. “Hey, Knox?” “Yeah?” “You’re cuddling.”
That little x makes my heart flutter. Knox isn’t really a hugs and kisses kind of guy. He’s been clear about what he wants, hanging out and hooking up. But we’ve been spending so much time together the lines have blurred. I know he likes me beyond hooking up, but that could just be friendship on top of sex. Is it possible he’s falling for me like I am him?
My throat burns with the need to say well actually, I can’t get enough of you either. In fact, I’m in love with you and wondering if you could possibly reconsider the whole I don’t do serious thing.
And then there’s Avery. I can’t get her out of my head.
“You don’t have to say anything. I know you don’t feel the same or want a relationship. One of the things I admire most about you is how honest you’ve always been with me. But if I’m being honest, I can’t keep hooking up with you, pretending like it’s what I want. I know I said that I didn’t want a relationship, and I meant it at the time. But somewhere along the line I fell hard for you anyway.”
“Of course I fucking love her,”
“I’m sorry for being a coward. I should have told you how I felt sooner, but I didn’t think it mattered. Maybe it doesn’t now. I wouldn’t blame you if it’s all too little too late, but I couldn’t leave without telling you. I love you, Avery.
Maybe I didn’t do a great job of showing you that I was already all yours, but I was. I still am. I want you to be mine. Not just when we’re in the same zip code, but all the time.”
“I love you too, princess.” “But I love you more,” I counter, just to see his handsome, dirt-covered face pull into a smile. “Not possible.”
