“That’s a no in every spoken language under the sun, Pretty Boy. Forget what happened, forget I exist, and stay the hell away from me.”
When she made to storm away, I latched my hand onto her wrist and tugged her back against my chest, wrapping an arm across the front of her body to hold her in place.
Her breath hitched, breasts heaved, and her heart slammed into my forearm.
“What are you doing?”
she asked in a breathy whisper.
“Still need me to clean your car?” I murmured into the crook of her neck.
The subtle tremor that wracked her sent hot blood hurtling straight to my groin.
“If you can do it without touching me.” Her voice faltered, and I smiled into her neck.
“Now, where’s the fun in that, Snow Queen?”
Nuzzling my nose against her jaw, I suppressed a groan when a mixture of vanilla and cinnamon hit my nostrils. With her ass pressed into me and her sweet as sin smell invading my senses, I couldn’t remember the last time I’d wanted to fuck a girl as much as I did her right now. Someone had switched out my dick and replaced it with a steel rod. The throbbing bordered on painful.
It would take so little effort to just lift her dress and slip it up over her hips, slide a finger up the inside of her smooth thigh and hook it under her panties…
My eyelids lowered on a tortured growl as my chin sank into her shoulder. She’d snap my dick off and batter me to death with it before she admitted kissing me was anything other than a mistake… didn’t bode well for my chances of getting laid.
“Lissa? You up here—woah!”
Danny’s head appeared over the wooden bannister and he stalled, his mouth flapping open. He looped his hand around the handrail as a grin slowly stretched out over his face, and then the asshole just fucking stood and leered. Settling in for a private show, apparently.
Liss pushed out of my hold and ran her fingers through her tousled blonde hair. I straightened up with a scowl as Danny wagged his brows and braced a shoulder against the wall.
“I’m sure I came up here for a reason.” He grinned. “No fucking idea what it was now, though.”
“Fuck off,” I said, reaching down to attend to the baton trying to bust out of my pants. A harsh yell from outside drew my head round.
“Shit, yeah.” Danny jerked away from the wall and turned to Lissa. “Liss, you need to get your ass outside.”
Brow creased, I swung my gaze to Lissa’s confused face.
“Why?” she asked.
Danny pivoted and bounded down the stairs. “Shit’s kicking off with Ren and Riley.”
“What?” Lissa’s eyes flew wide, and she bolted after him.
“Kicking off how?” I barked, my legs breaking into action.
“No fucking idea. Riley’s really fucking worked up about something,” Dan explained with a quick glance back over his shoulder.
The house was empty—everyone and their fucking dog had gathered outside in the yard. I pushed forward to get a better look at whatever the fuck was going on as I barrelled through the door. My eyes found Riley first, and my heart dumped into my stomach. The broken look on her face crushed me. My feet stuck in place for a second as Lissa’s enraged screech punctured the air and gasps sounded out around us.
Then my gaze landed on Ren, with his hands and mouth all over someone who sure as fuck wasn’t Ri, and I saw fucking red. “What the fuck are you doing?”
Riley had stumbled halfway across the yard before I could calm myself enough to move. When Ren followed her, I clenched my jaw, my fisted hand locked tight against my side as I pounded a path through the clutter of bodies until I reached him.
He didn’t stop me when my arm reared back, and I didn’t pause to question the look of devastation on his face. I sunk my knuckles into his flesh and watched as his head snapped to the side. His body dropped to a crouch, and he planted his fist into the ground with a strangled curse.
Breathing heavily through flared nostrils, I clamped my teeth together. Reno swiped a thumb over the slit in his busted lip, then lifted his head. His brown eyes looked vacant; like he’d packed up and fucking left the building. The sight shook me.
Before I could say anything, Ren said, “Do it again, Le. This time, don’t fucking stop.”