Total pages in book: 99
Estimated words: 92782 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 464(@200wpm)___ 371(@250wpm)___ 309(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 92782 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 464(@200wpm)___ 371(@250wpm)___ 309(@300wpm)
We didn’t speak on the ride home even though I wanted to call her out on that bullshit tale about her grandmother. If she’d had a grandmother who spent that much time with her, then she’d not have ended up as a selfish, manipulative brat.
“I’ll send up something for you to eat, then show you what I need done with the files,” I told her, wishing she didn’t have to be in my office to get it done. I would find somewhere else to be today.
“Okay,” she replied.
No questions or comments. That wasn’t like her.
I glanced at her before stepping inside the back entrance to the club and wished I hadn’t. She didn’t even have to lay that charming shit on so thick, and she’d still have a man’s attention. Selena was a beautiful woman, but when it came to physical looks, she couldn’t compete with Liberty.
Cursing myself mentally for comparing the two of them, I went inside. Selena was a good person, and it was unfair to her to do that even if it was something I never said aloud.
Tex was coming down the stairs and stopped, his eyes swinging over toward us. My internal cursing intensified when his gaze landed on Liberty and his eyes lit up with interest.
Not now, you horny-ass fucker. Not this one.
“If she’s new, I approve,” he said with a thick drawl, tilting his head and moving so he could get a better look at her.
“She’s not,” I snapped, annoyed.
He seemed to struggle to take his eyes off her. “Why not?”
“Because she’s not. Let it go.”
Finally, he managed to tear his lust-filled gaze off her to look at me. “Is this up for debate?”
Clenching my teeth together, I shook my head. “Don’t,” I warned him.
“Hi. Since he’s not going to introduce me because his rude setting is always on where I am concerned, I’m Liberty,” she said, stepping up beside me and holding out her hand to his.
Tex’s eyes dropped to her hand, then slowly moved back up, pausing on her tits with a smile stretching across his face.
Fucking hell. Could she not just keep her mouth shut and go upstairs quietly?
“He’s not normally rude to beautiful women, sweetheart,” Tex said, taking a step closer to her and holding on to her hand for longer than necessary. “Makes me wonder what you did to ignite his grumpy side. Because looking at you, I can’t imagine anything that would make a man annoyed with you.”
“Well, you see, he’s dating my sis—”
“That’s enough!” I barked, then pointed to the stairs. “Up now!” I told her before she blurted out shit Tex didn’t need to hear.
Her hand fell away from his grasp, and those honey-brown eyes of hers flashed with anger. “See what I mean?” she said, stepping between us and toward the stairs.
“Prez, what the fuck is wrong with you?” Tex asked, watching her ass as she headed up. I could see his eyes eating up the view as he licked his lips.
“She’s off-limits,” I snarled.
Once she was finally out of sight, he looked back at me. “Why? Because I need a real good reason, Prez. That’s one hot piece of prime ass.”
“Because I said she was. She’s mine.” As much as I didn’t want to give her that label, I knew it was the only way to keep the others back.
He gave me a shocked look. “That is not the doctor,” he said. “That cannot be a doctor.”
I rubbed my temples with my thumb and forefinger. “No, it’s not.”
He let out a low chuckle. “Guess I’d change course, too, if that sweet thing walked across my path. But you might want to be nicer to her. Unless being a dick to her is what gets her wound up for a good fuck.”
“It’s not what you think,” I said, wishing he would let it go.
Both his eyebrows shot up. “I think you’re banging that perfect, plump ass and unloading in her every chance you get because you’re a smart man. So, are you saying that ain’t what’s happening?”
“She’s Selena’s sister. I’m keeping her here for a couple of days to do some work for me while she relocates. That’s all anyone needs to know.”
Tex ran his hand over his mouth, trying to cover his amusement. “That’s the doctor’s sister, and you are giving her a job to do in your office upstairs for a few days.”
I sighed and headed up the stairs.
“Is that why you sent me to your house last night? And if so, why the fuck did you stay down here until two before you went to bed?”
“I’m not fucking her, Tex,” I ground out.
“You keep her all cozy up there with you much longer, and you will be.”
I shook my head and kept going up. I was over this conversation. He didn’t need to know anything more. No one did. I had three days to decide what I was going to do if the baby was mine.