Total pages in book: 72
Estimated words: 71403 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 357(@200wpm)___ 286(@250wpm)___ 238(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 71403 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 357(@200wpm)___ 286(@250wpm)___ 238(@300wpm)
He blinks a few times but then grins. “Done and done.” He helps me to my feet.
I walk a few yards with my other heel still on, but I’m too lopsided. I kick it off too. “Fuck it. I’ll go barefoot.”
Wick chuckles darkly. “Just the way I like my women. Do you want me to carry you the rest of the way?”
Oh, my God. That thought is enticing. It pulls a smile onto my face so wide it makes my cheeks hurt. Wick looks like he’s pretty strong, and I don’t think we have too far to go until we get to the garage. “Sure,” I say with a giggle. “I’m all yours.”
“You’d better be, beautiful.” Wick sweeps me in his arms and carries me the rest of the way to the Jade Sanctum garage, not letting me down until we’re at his car—a beat-up Ford Mustang. Black, of course.
He opens the door for me and I clamber in. The minute he gets in the driver’s seat, I throw myself at him.
His lip ring scratches against me in the best way as I part my lips and let him in. His breath smells like stale cigarettes, but I don’t care. I need this man—really, any man—right the fuck now.
I let my hand wander down his hard chest as we continue to make out, and I finally land on the bulge between his legs.
It’s not huge, but it’s not small either.
He moans as I squeeze. “Fuck, pretty thing…”
“You want me to blow you?” I fiddle with the fly on his dark-wash jeans.
“Fuck yes, I do.” He turns the key in his ignition. “But let’s wait until we get back to my place. I want to take you right. In my bed.”
“How far away do you live?”
“Not far at all. Barely a ten-minute drive.”
“I’ll be holding onto your cock the whole time. I want to keep it hard the whole way.”
“You do whatever the fuck you want with my cock, gorgeous,” Wick says as he puts the car in gear. “I can’t wait to see what you look like outside of that tight little dress.” He pulls out of the parking space and careens out of the garage at breakneck speed.
I keep squeezing his dick the whole way. Ten minutes my ass. It feels like we’ve been driving for hours. I’m so damned horny. I’m not sure what’s come over me.
Because I want to rip every piece of clothing off this man right the fuck now.
12
AUS
Finally, a break.
Not that it matters.
Thea left with Wick fifteen minutes ago. I looked away, but I could still see them sneaking out. She was running her fingers up and down his arms, gripping onto him like he was some kind of security blanket.
Whatever. Fuck her. And really fuck Wick.
If he harms a hair on her head, I swear to God…
Why am I so attached to this woman? We interacted for maybe ten minutes. I’m feeling heartbroken, like I’ve been dumped by my wife of ten years.
It’s so weird.
Maybe I just need a drink. I amble over to North, sit down on a stool, and nod to Nora. “I need a beer yesterday.”
She frowns. “Everything okay, Aus?”
I sigh. “On paper, yes.”
She pours two glasses of Wonderful Whiz. “I think I’ll join you in this one.”
“I’ll always share a beer with you, Nor.” I raise my glass. “To healing hearts.”
She crinkles her eyes. “What’s got you in such a poetic mood?”
I take a sip of my beer. “It’s dumb.”
“Nothing’s dumb if it’s got you down.” She leans on the bar. “Come on, Aus. Spill.”
“Fine.” I draw in a slow breath. “That girl I brought by, the one I was showing around? Thea?”
“What about her?”
“I don’t know. She just… We seemed to hit it off great. But I couldn’t ask her out because she was here on one of those damned Twistr dates. But then, get this. The date didn’t show. At least that’s what it looked like. But by that point I was in the middle of my set. And then”—I look over my shoulders to make sure no one is within earshot—“fucking Wick of all people swoops in and picks her up right under my damned nose.”
“Aw, honey.” Nora pats my hand. “I’m sorry it didn’t work out. And that you’re upset.”
“That’s the thing, though.” I grip my beer glass. “I shouldn’t even care. It’s not the first time I haven’t gotten a girl. But something about this particular girl… She just got under my skin for some reason.”
She scratches the side of her head. “And I’m sure it didn’t help it was Wick.”
I sigh. “You know we’ve never exactly gotten along.”
“Why is that?”
“Honestly, no idea. Before tonight, he hadn’t ever even done anything to piss me off. I just get a weird feeling about him. A general distrust.”