Page 96 of They Break Beauty

“Lev, finally, what the—”

“Can’t talk right now. I know I said I’d be home last night, but something came up. Be back in a couple of hours.”

“But it can’t—”

“I’m at Brianna’s, cupcake.”

There was a long pause.

“Well, damn. That’s… I don’t know what to say.”

“Good. That concludes our conversation then. Gotta go, brother. See you soon enough.”

With that, Levi hung up without another word.

He put his phone down, then blew out a breath and rolled back to face me on his side. “Sorry about that.”

“That was rude, cutting him off like that.”

“Rude? Rude was interrupting our first morning together with his relentless calls and texts.”

“Well, did you even check the texts, because you didn’t give him a chance to tell you why he was being so persistent.”

He lifted a shoulder. “It’s not a big deal.”

“How do you know?”

“Because, shortly after we fell asleep, I was woken up by my phone ringing. It was my guys telling me that your car was gassed up and in your apartment complex lot, and that they’d slid your car key under your apartment door for you. At the same time, I saw a couple of texts from Colt with him thinking I hadn’t come home because I was mad at him.”

“Thank you for doing that for my car,” I said, stroking his arm.

He beamed out at me. “No worries.”

I shifted my weight. “So, are you mad at Colton?”

“Nah. He kept apologizing for kissing you. He thought I somehow already knew about it.”

“You didn’t?”

“Nope.”

“And now that you do?”

His lips quirked. “How did you like that tongue piercing of his?”

“I… what?”

“Adds another level of stimulation, hmm?”

“It does,” I admitted. And then I was frowning. “How do you know? Spend a lot of time kissing Colton, do you?”

“Twice. After he got that piercing, he was all worried about it impacting his game and he wanted to test it out, so I helped him out.”

“Wow, that was very generous of you.”

He grinned. “I thought so.”

With his free hand, he trailed his fingers up and down my thigh. “Forget a kiss, imagine how it would feel teasing that sweet cunt of yours.”

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