Total pages in book: 86
Estimated words: 81009 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 405(@200wpm)___ 324(@250wpm)___ 270(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 81009 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 405(@200wpm)___ 324(@250wpm)___ 270(@300wpm)
I’d heard the girls talking about their plans to have sex in the hotel rooms or limos they’d reserved for tonight and hoped Tyler didn’t have that in mind. I wasn’t ready to lose my virginity just yet. I was waiting until I was sure.
The doorbell rang, and I turned from the mirror and went to pick up the silver wristlet purse that had my lipstick, the phone Vanna had bought me for Christmas, and some money, just in case I needed it. I heard Vanna greet Tyler and headed toward the entrance of the house.
Rome’s senior picture hung at the end of the hallway, and it was hard not to look at it as I walked in that direction.
I regretted that afternoon in the truck. It had shut him off from me. We had started becoming…I didn’t know…maybe friends. But now I was just someone who lived at his mom’s house. He’d introduced me to Shana as his mom’s student and ward.
Shana was older and gorgeous with big brown eyes and blonde hair. I was so envious of her that it hurt my chest. But I was polite to her, even when she said things to me that weren’t very nice when no one else was around. It was clear she didn’t like that I lived there. I had no idea why. Rome never glanced my way or spoke to me.
Jerking my gaze off his portrait, I turned the corner and stepped into the living room. Tyler had been speaking to Vanna and stopped, it seemed, mid-sentence as his eyes met mine. The awed expression as his gaze slowly drifted over the rest of me made me wish I could get Rome to see me like that.
Freaking Rome. Always on my mind.
“You are stunning,” he said.
“She is, isn’t she?” Vanna agreed with pride in her tone. “Now, I need pictures. Go on over to the fireplace. I’ll do photos in front of the mantel, then outside. That limo you have is something else. I want pictures in front of it too.”
He hadn’t told me he was bringing a limo. Did that mean sex?
Nervously, I tried to hold my smile as he approached me. His hand rested against my waist, and he tilted his head down to stare at me.
“You’re fucking breathtaking,” he whispered.
“Thank you,” I replied, wishing I could feel something for him.
“Oh, that is a good one!” Vanna said, and I realized she had begun taking photos with her phone. “Now, both of you, look at me. No, wait. Salem, you look at me. Tyler, you can keep looking at her like you were.”
“Not a problem,” he replied, causing her to chuckle.
I knew I should feel like Cinderella tonight, but no matter how fixed up I was, without my prince, this was just a ball.
12
Tex
Present Day
The shit I did for Micah. Scowling, I shook my head as I walked into the back entrance of Paradise Brew.
I had gotten in from Ocala with Liam after midnight last night. Then church, our weekly club meeting, was at eleven this morning, and that was too fucking early, but Liam didn’t want to be gone long. His son was teething and not sleeping well. Once he was back on the road, I planned on going back to bed. Maybe get Nixie to suck my cock first to take the edge off. But Micah had called, wanting me to go help Pepper with security tonight.
Seemed Pepper’s security was needing to be amped up due to some strange shit on the cameras the past two nights. Someone was messing with them, but that was all we’d been able to tell so far. Micah had already sent shit to the tech guy who worked for the Southern Mafia. He’d be able to find out what was going on with it, but until then, there would be a Judgment at each entrance to the bar. I was in charge of the back since that was where the tampering had happened.
By the time Liam had left, I’d had to get showered and leave for Pepper’s. I’d skipped Thursday night the last time I was in town. Still trying to shake Salem from my head. Hell, it had been two fucking months, and she was still starring in my dreams. To make matters worse, I had called Nixie Angel Face the last time she sucked me off. Which had her thinking she was special. Telling her I’d had my eyes closed, imagining another pair of lips wrapped around my cock, seemed like a bad idea. She’d have likely gotten dramatic and shit.
I nodded at the two cooks already prepping in the kitchen, and I kept stalking toward the swinging door leading into the main room. I needed something to drink before shit got busy.
Nixie had been strutting down the hallway in nothing but a thong and heels when I was leaving the club. Her eyes lit up at the sight of me. That would have worried me that she was going to get clingy if her lipstick hadn’t been smeared and her hair mussed. She had clearly had a brother’s cock in her mouth moments before. The sight of her ass and bare tits, however, had stirred my interest, but there had been no time to do anything about it.