Page 556 of The Tempted

“Where do you think you’re going?” Jack asked at the same time.

Lacey answered her father, turning her attention toward him.

“Noah is pledging a fraternity, and he asked me and Daniela to go to the party,” she explained, looking over her shoulder at Reina. “I’m sorry but I promised him before I knew about the dinner.”

“They’ll be plenty more dinners,” Reina promised.

“Daniela’s outside, so I’m just going to run upstairs and change quick,” she said, pushing back her chair and grabbing her plate. She moved behind me but stopped in her tracks, leaning over my shoulder and stretching her arm out as her breasts brushed against me and she snatched her phone off the table.

“Sorry,” she whispered.

Little tease.

I watched as she stopped in front of Jack, bent down and kissed his cheek. I’m not going to lie…I was jealous as fuck and to prove it, a grunt escaped my lips.

“You’re fucked,” Pipe said, causing me to turn my attention towards him but lucky for me he was eyeing Jack.

“How so?”

“Are you serious?” Pipe scoffed.

“The idiot’s right, you’re fucked,” Wolf put his two cents in. “Got a boy who pledged a frat two years ago…them little fuckers get down, make our patch parties look like choir practice with a bunch of nuns,” he said pointedly.

I was losing my mind.

First, I was jealous of the peck Lace gave her father.

Then she mentioned this Noah character, add Wolf’s little comments, and I was the one who wasfucked...not Jack.

I had to rely on him to reign her in, tie her to a chair and tell her she couldn’t fucking go to some frat house because if I said something, Jack would likely tiemeto the fucking chair and stick a gun in my mouth.

Man, if he only knew what the fuck I was thinking.

I’d be dead.

“You have a son old enough to be in college?” Reina asked.

“Yeah, smart as a whip that boy is. It’s no wonder because his mother is dumb as bag of rocks,” he quipped, shoveling more lasagna onto his plate.

“So you going to let her go?” Pipe questioned, surprised.

“Why wouldn’t I? In nineteen years she hasn’t given me a problem,” he shrugged his shoulders, diverting his gaze back to mine. “Be good for her to get out, be around people her own age. Especially, after this shit that went down, the girl needs a little fun in her life.”

I don’t know if he was looking at me, daring me to disagree with him or if he was doing it to torment me.

Either way, Jack was fucking with me and I didn’t like it.

“I need to use the john,” I said, rising from my seat and making my way through the house, as Lacey came down the stairs. She had changed into a black tank top and a pair of pants that looked like leather. I looked to the bathroom door in the hallway next to the stairs, pulled open it open, before checking to see if everyone was still at the table then I pushed her into the bathroom and closed the door.

“Nice outfit,” I growled.

She bit her lip, as she leaned against the door, peering up at me from the fringe of her lashes.

“I think so,” she murmured.

“Bet a lot of people will,” I affirmed, pressing my palm against the door, above her head as I leaned into her. “Girl, you looking to be noticed?”

She didn’t answer instead; her tongue took a swipe over her lip. I brought my free hand to her hip, pulling her hips against me and forced her to arch her back against the door. I leaned forward, nuzzled her ear as my fingers dug into her hip.

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