Page 45 of Reckless Temptation

Scrappy Sabrina was sexy.

I couldn’t think of many women I personally knew who’d tough out fixing a car on their own. I knew this girl was determined, but damn, had I underestimated how much.

Surprise filtered over her face. Uneasiness and confusion followed swiftly afterward.

The case of her seeing me here in the Lorsen mansion made it seem like my cover was blown. If she knew that I lived here, that I was associated with Tiffany, she would never trust me again.

She hadn’t yet, actually. That was what she’d told me. Shedidn’ttrust me. Not to help her. Not to get her off. I couldn’t blame her after the way I treated her, but I wanted her to soften up toward me again and let me almost get close.

Before she could ask why I was here, I turned away and flattened my back against the wall, out of her sight via the mirror’s reflection.

“Sabrina?” one of the old professors asked. “Are you wounded? Were you hurt?”

Sabrina cleared her throat. “No. I’m fine. Just a tad weary from the trip. I, uh, I couldn’t park up close. The gate was closed so I walked the rest of the way in.”

“I’m so sorry,” George said. “The gate would close on the schedule. We assumed you wouldn’t be showing this late.”

“Oh, no. It’s fine.”

I almost scoffed. Fine? She looked exhausted and worn down. I bet that walk from the gate to the mansion felt long and difficult.

Once the dinner and meeting started, hours ago, I stayed away from the dining room. I didn’t want anything to do with this small group of law students, and I had nothing invested in being present. From what I could tell, though, they had to be almost done. Dinner had come and gone over two hours ago, yet Sabrina rejected George’s offer of a plate to be made up for her. She insisted that she cared more about what she’d missed in the meeting.

I stayed where I was, eavesdropping and listening in, but even I could tell that she’d more or less missed it all. Still, I was impressed. She’d gotten here on her own. She was strong and determined.

Even in resisting me.

I yearned for another chance to taste her lips, wishing she would reply this time. I missed the warmth of her curvy body under my fingers and palm.

But seeing her show up despite the obstacles and delays, I had to admire her a little more for the gumption to make it at all. She kept her head high and didn’t show a hint of being bothered.

Nothing could bring her down. No one could crack her. She was cool, no matter what, and I hated how it made me want to try even harder to get her.

She was still the good girl, seemingly too perfect, and I was impatient to dirty her up, to mess her up as a way to vent all the frustration I was stuck in from how lousy my life was.

When it sounded like everyone was getting ready to leave the dining room, wrapping up the evening’s discussion about whatever they’d done at the jail today, I pushed off the hallway wall to get out of there. I wasn’t prepared to encounter Sabrina now. Not after the way she’d rejected me so coolly even though she was clearly attracted to me.

Before I got down the corridor, Tiffany rushed up to me and shoved at my back until she got me into another room. She shut the door and rounded on me, her face as furious as ever.

“What the fuck, Nick?”

I raised my brows.

“How the hell did she get here?” She pointed in the direction of the dining room.

I shrugged. “She must have fixed the car.”

“I thought you tampered with it.”

“I did.”Then I offered to help her get it back in operation, but you don’t need to know that. Ever.

“So what the fuck happened?”

“She must have fixed it and hurried to get here as quickly as she could.”

She growled, fisting her hands and locking her arms straight at her sides. “Then do something!” She lifted both hands to shove me without moving me at all. “I told you toruinher. You’re not doing enough. She’s here. So do something, dammit!”

My hatred for her was only scaling higher and higher at this rate. If she didn’t have leverage over me, I would’ve tired of her bullshit a long-ass time ago. “I will,” I said tiredly.

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