Bad for Business (Pembroke Hills, #2)

by Kat Singleton

Oh my God. I forgot how good of a kisser he was. His kiss is possessive. And with his lips against mine, I can’t lie to him. I want this. Desperately.

He kisses me like he’s trying to punish me. And maybe he is. I wouldn’t blame him.

“You don’t kiss me like you hate me,” Ryker croons, his breathing heavy as he traces his lips down my neck.

“I already told you I don’t hate you.” My words come out breathless. I try to stifle a moan as one of his hands drops to my thigh, but it’s no use. I know he heard it. “I just don’t like you,”

“Maybe because we’re two grown adults. Hickeys are for teenagers. Plus, I’m your publicist. You shouldn’t be giving me hickeys.”

“I still don’t like you,” I tell him, still smiling.

His fingers dig into my sides almost painfully as his mouth breaks out into a wolfish grin. “If this is how you prove to me you don’t like me, then I’ll fucking take

“Us kissing changes nothing,”

“I know,”

“I mean it when I say I don’t like you,”

“I don’t like you either,”

“I don’t have to like you to think you’re fucking perfect,”

“For being so insistent that you don’t like me, your pussy is absolutely soaked for me, princess.”

“You don’t have to like me to come for me.”

“Really?” I ask, not bothering to hide the upset tone of my voice. “Nothing happened? It didn’t feel like nothing when you were coming all over my fingers.”

“And you were my publicist last night when you fucked my fingers so greedily you were practically screaming my name. It didn’t seem to matter then. Why’s it matter now?”

A numbness settles over me as I come to terms with the fact that all these times I’ve acted like I didn’t like her, it was the complete opposite. I do like her. I’m attracted to her. She consumes my mind in a way no one has before.

I know she can have more bite to her tone, so I sigh and rip my gaze from hers, deciding to listen. I don’t know what I was hoping for anyway. It’s just another instance where she’s burrowed so deep into my head that I feel myself wanting things I have no business wanting. I blur lines in my head that she’s very clearly drawn in the sand. I thought if I drank enough tonight, I’d forget all about her.

“I want to like myself again. It’d be nice to have my own approval before I go.”

“I’m not letting you push me away. You don’t get to do that right now. You asked me to stay, and I’m staying. Don’t waste your energy trying to change my mind because it won’t work.”

“You’re not going to argue?” I was fully prepared for this to turn into a battle.

“Don’t get used to it.”

There’s a weird tightness that fills my chest as I watch her sleep. I rub at the spot above my heart, wondering what this feeling is and what to do about it.

“Plus, now that I have you wanting to kiss me, I’m not going to waste my chance to do it.”

“You can look all you want,” I tell her, trying to ignore the ache of my cock. I’m hard, something she obviously knows after her little peek a moment ago. “You can see what you do to me without even touching me.”

“I didn’t think I’d have you on your knees for me, but I have to admit, I don’t hate the sight of it. It’s hot.”

“Princess, I’ll get on my knees for you anytime you want me to. All you have to do is ask.”

“Be careful what you promise me, Ryker,” she responds, her mouth so close that her lips almost move against mine. “I might just have to ask you.”

“Kiss me like you never want to let go,”

“The easiest thing I’ve ever done is like you, Cami. Even when I thought I hated you, I liked you.”

“I’m sorry that you’ve met people in your life who made you feel like you’re unlikable, but that’s the furthest thing from the truth. And if you’ll keep letting me in, if you don’t run the moment you get scared, then I’ll keep proving to you how much I mean it.”

“I’m not going to say anything else because I don’t want to scare you away. But I need you to know that I plan on staying as long as you’ll let me.”

“When you realize you’re falling in love with someone, you want to get back to them as soon as possible.”

“I’m falling for you, Ryker Davenport. It’s terrifying and exhilarating and so many other things I’ve never felt before. But this is me trusting you to catch me.”

“I’m falling right there with you, princess. I’ll always catch you.”