Page 37 of Shiny Things

I rolled my eyes and grabbed Elias’s arm. “Come on. The testosterone is getting too high in this room for me.”

He chuckled then shook hands with the other two most important men in my life and said good night.

I was certain the possessive way he put his hand on my lower back and guided me out the door had not gone unnoticed.

“That was fun,” he said. “Too bad Andrew messed up the game. I had you.”

“In your dreams.”

“Nah. My dreams always involve you, but there are never any games involved.”

He trapped me with my back against my car. His large body framing me in a way that always thrilled me. But when he lowered his head to kiss me, I turned away so that he just grazed my cheek.

“Not here. It’s too out in the open. People will see and will talk.”

He shrugged. “I don’t care. When are you going to start realizing that?”

I was starting to catch on, but I wasn’t quite ready for him to know that.

“I have to be up early for work tomorrow.”

“Okay. I get it. See you at home.”

“I’m not going to your apartment this late.”

“I wasn’t talking about my place.”

I didn’t know how to respond to that, so I got in my car and drove Elias back to his bike before heading home. He followed me. He didn’t even bother to park his motorcycle around back away from the view of the road when we arrived either.

It was then that I realized something had changed between us tonight, and I had no idea what to do about it.

He didn’t give me much time to even think about it before he opened my car door, pulled me out, and tossed me over his shoulder to carry me inside.

When we got to the door, I feared he may just kick it in again as he’d done before, though, true to his word, he had replaced the door and fixed the latch.

Instead, he fished out his keys and unlocked my front door.

“Hold up. You have a key to my house?”

“Your house, my door.”

“That’s not how this works.”

My words fell on deaf ears as he closed the door behind us and carried me to my bedroom.

I smacked his ass, but he still didn’t put me down. Instead, he smacked me back, and the sting from it shot straight to my core.

I gasped in surprise.

Elias slowly lowered me to my feet. He had a lazy, cocky smirk on his face.

“You liked that, didn’t you.”

I crossed my arms over my chest in righteous indignation. There was no way I was going to admit that to him.

His eyes trailed down to my breasts on full display now.

I groaned. “Go home Elias.”

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