Page 21 of Pucked and Pregnant

Her head snaps up. “What?”

“You calculated that at least one of us would be attracted to you and be willing to help you out. That math is wrong.”

“You arrogant jerk. My conclusions were perfectly logical. Are you saying you’re not interested? Fine but don’t kick me while I’m down by trying to argue the math.”

“Is your nose that far in the air that you can’t even see when you’ve made a mistake? Wow.”

“Fine, Genius, what mistake could I have possibly made?” Liv scowls.

“Your mistake was assuming only one of us would be interested. What happens if we all are?”

I’m jarredfrom the memory by Liv’s voice reaching an octave I thought only trained singers could hit.

“Ruining my career? Are you fucking kidding me?”

“As soon as you badmouth the team, you lose your job. That’s basic business.”

“I didn’t badmouth the team, did I?”

“You badmouthedme. That’s the same thing. You really think they’re going to let that slide?” he demands.

“Not only did they let it slide they sanctioned it,” Liv says smugly.

“What?”

“I gave them three fun facts about three different players to look over and they greenlit all three. Told me I could do any one of them that I wanted.”

“So you picked me? Out of what, spite?”

“I picked you because I thought you could take it. Apparently, your ego has gotten too fragile to handle me.”

I can’t tell if it was the tone of her voice, her posture, or some other unquantifiable thing, but the entire atmosphere of the room changed the second the words left her mouth.

I don’t know when I started to hold my breath but my lungs are burning from doing it.

“I can handle damn well anything,” Dimitri growls.

“Really? Because from where I stand, you seem to come up a little… short,” she says, boldly looking him up and down.

He grabs her hand roughly and places it on his dick. “That feel short to you?”

When she answers that question by kissing him hard on the mouth, I start feeling too many things at once.

Jealousy, why him and not me?

Extreme discomfort, this has clearly turned into a private moment for the two of them. Aiden and I really should have leftwhen they told me to shut up. So why are we sitting here like professional voyeurs?

Desire, the sight of her flushed with pleasure as that silk robe slips closer and closer to the floor makes my cock ache.

It all churns in my mind until it melts together into a single word—familiarity.

That’s when it all makes sense.

She taunted Dimitri on purpose. She was goading him. He never goes and picks fights with women. Liv is the only woman he’s ever argued with. Ever.

And it always ended with sex.

I should have known by the way he was walking down to her room. There was a decided bounce in his step that I didn’t consciously register at the time. Maybe that’s what compelled me to follow him, compelled both of us.

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