Total pages in book: 117
Estimated words: 115186 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 576(@200wpm)___ 461(@250wpm)___ 384(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 115186 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 576(@200wpm)___ 461(@250wpm)___ 384(@300wpm)
“Then what? You can tell ol’ Romeo your deepest, darkest secrets.” He patted his own chest. “I’ll keep them locked in here and promise not to spill them.”
“I’m a virgin.”
His head jerked back, and he barked out a laugh. “Funny.” Now she was fucking with him.
Only, she didn’t laugh with him. One side of her mouth pulled up and she shrugged.
He blinked. Holy fuck. “Wait. You fuckin’ serious?”
“I figured that little tidbit would scare you off.”
“Then, it’s a lie.” Because if it was true, it was hardly a fucking little tidbit. This was huge.
And he wasn’t sure if he was happy about it.
When she didn’t answer and her eyes sliced from his face to over his shoulder, his stomach dropped.
He might have to find a new plan because he didn’t fuck with virgins. “It’s a lie, right? How old are you?” He never did get that answer. Because there was no fucking way…
“How old are you?” she countered.
“Twenty-nine.”
“You look older.”
Was that supposed to be a compliment or a fucking insult? “What about you?”
She lifted her glass. “Old enough to drink, apparently.”
“So, twenty-one.”
“Add another year onto that.”
She was twenty-two and still a goddamn virgin? No fucking way. That had to be bullshit. What female graduated college still a virgin?
Hell, would he even know? When the fuck did a college girl ever look at him twice?
Fucking never.
He barely got his high school diploma. He wasn’t good enough for any of them.
Not even for a night.
Or an hour.
Unless they used him as a revenge fuck.
“Your man piss you off? Wanna get back at him? I’m available. If you’re hot, no charge. If you’re not? We can negotiate the terms.”
He didn’t have a problem with that. For the right woman, he’d even volunteer.
But a fucking virgin?
She was definitely fucking with him. He decided to go along with it and see where it led him. “Can help you with that.”
“With what?”
This girl had to be playing him. “That pesky hymen.”
“I haven’t found it to be bothersome. Maybe I want to save my virginity until I find the love of my life.”
“Yeah? You can pretend.”
“Pretend what?”
“That I’m the love of your life.”
“You mean if I close my eyes while you’re splitting me in two and pretend you’re someone else while you’re doing so?”
He turned his choking into a chuckle. “Fuck, baby, I like you.”
“Why’s that?”
“What’s not to like? You’re hot as fuck. You got an ass I wanna smash. And since you’re good at school, I bet your easily teachable. Even if you are a virgin.”
Her eyebrows, the same color as her hair, stitched together. “Do lines like that get you laid?”
“Usually don’t gotta work so fuckin’ hard to get laid.”
“I bet not with sweet butts at your beck and call. They can’t say no, right?”
“They can say no.”
“Not if they want to remain a sweet butt.”
She was right. But this was not the path he wanted to head down tonight. He wanted them to take the path to his waiting RV, instead.
Her eyes flicked from his face back to over his shoulder. Her spine snapped straight at the same time she whispered, “Shit.”
Of course that made his spine tighten, too, but before he could turn around to figure out the issue, the issue was standing next to them.
“Let’s go,” Shade ordered Maddie in a low tone that screamed he didn’t want an argument.
“I’m fine here,” she told him.
“No you ain’t. Let’s go, Maddie. He ain’t for you.”
Romeo turned to face Shade but remained standing between the Fury member and Maddie. “Why? ‘Cause I’m Black?”
Shade’s dark eyes narrowed on him. “‘Cause you’re a fuckin’ dog sniffin’ around someone you shouldn’t be.”
“She’s an adult and I thought you ain’t her pop, so not sure why you get to tell her what to fuckin’ do,” Romeo told him.
Everything went completely still on Shade, except his lips. “My job to protect her.”
“From me?”
“From anyone lookin’ to take advantage of her. You need to fuckin’ respect that.”
This exchange was the most words he ever heard the Fury member say, not that Romeo had been around him much. But the man was known to speak few words and when he did, he spoke softly and slowly like he chose his words carefully.
Unlike Romeo. He tended to let shit fly. “We’re only havin’ a bit of fuckin’ conversation, that’s it.”
Shade’s tight jaw shifted. A second later he focused on his stepdaughter, if that was what she was to him. He still didn’t know that answer. If truth be known, he also didn’t fucking care.
“Let’s go, Maddie.”
Romeo took offense when Shade curled his hand around her forearm and tugged. “Maybe she don’t wanna fuckin’ go.”
Romeo felt the other presence before he saw it. “It” being a him.
Judge. The Fury’s sergeant at arms.
“Brother,” was all the tall, bearded man rumbled.
Romeo wasn’t sure if the warning was directed at him, at Shade, or the both of them.