“I’d never get in the way of a good murdering, especially when the asshole deserves it.”
“So, you’re in?”
“To watch your roommate-slash-enemy annihilate you?” He grins. “Fuck yeah.” Nolan pushes his empty bottle away, shaking his head when the bartender motions toward it, asking if he wants another.
“Please. I’m not worried about River.” I scoff, finishing off my beer.
“From what I’ve heard, you should be.”
“I can deal with her.”
“She seems feisty. Fun.”
“She’s…something.”
Nolan tilts his head. “You said that in a funny way.”
I draw my brows up. “What? I did not.”
He eyes me, curious. Then, a slow smile curves over his lips. “Oh, fuck. Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Tell you what?” I reach for the empty beer bottle, needing something to distract myself with, uncomfortable under his scrutiny. He’s staring at me too hard and too long.
“That you have a thing for this chick.”
I bark out a laugh, motioning to the bartender for another drink; I’m going to need one if I have to sit here and listen to Nolan’s crap. “Please. I do not have athingfor her, whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean.”
“It means she gets your dickandyour other parts going.” He leans in close and whispers, “You know, likefeelingsand shit.”
“Whatever, man.” I grab the beer the bartender silently slides my way and take a hefty swig. I wipe my mouth with the back of my hand. “Is River hot? Yeah, sure. I’m not blind. She’s the kind of girl I’d normally go for, but it’s not athing. The attraction is purely physical.”
“Then you don’t mind if I ask her out?”
“You don’t even know her.”
He grins, and I know he caught that my answer wasn’t a flat-out no right off the bat. Itshouldhave been. We both know that.
“Hasn’t stopped me before. I don’t know a lot of the girls I go out with.”
True. Nolan’s not exactly the get-to-know-you type.
And whatever. I don’t judge. It’s not like I’ve never wined and dined for some pussy and then left before the awkwardDo you want to grab breakfast?
The thought of him doing that to River…it makes my gut feel all weird.Wrong.
“If you don’t have a thing for her, then she’s fair game, right?”
“No.”
The word tumbles from my lips on impulse, but that doesn’t make it any less true.
If anything, it makes it all that much more honest.
I don’t want to date River, but I don’t want Nolan to date her either.
And I can’t figure out why.
He laughs, then rises off his stool. “That’s what I thought.”