Page 64 of Rider Forbidden
“Yes you fucking are, and don’t you forget it.”
I like that he’s possessive over me.
“I just had a message from Bobby asking me to go to his place again, meet his fiancé. I’ve said I’ll go Sunday morning. I guess I’ll just see if I can get to know them a little better. I’m nervous though.”
“I'm coming with you.”
My eyes widen. “No way, I can't ask you to do that. I’ll go on my own, I didn’t say I was nervous so you would offer.”
“I'm coming with you, no arguments - you’ve got a second judge of character then, and one that has played every game in the book, so I know all the tricks.”
God, this is weird, having backup - I’m not used to it. “Thank you.” I check where Eli is, he’s still playing and lean him to kiss him. It's supposed to be a quick one, but it lingers longer and when we break off we look at each other, I can feel his breath on me.
It doesn’t seem so bad - falling for a bad boy.
“What are you two doing tonight?”
“Eli and I? Probably watching a film, why?”
“Want to come to my place for dinner?”
I smile at him. “We’d love to, can you cook?”
He nods “I can hold my own. I do a mean chicken nuggets and chips.”
I laugh “Well if you hadn’t already won Eli over, that would do it.”
“So you’ll come?”
I nod, “Yes definitely.”
He puts his arm around me to draw me in and kisses my temple. So sweet and so tender.
*****
I look around Jack’s living room, it's not what I expected. He lives in a terraced house that he rents from a friend who’s emigrated apparently. It's a nice house, two bedrooms, basic but nice. It has a small living room and kitchen with a dining area at the side.
I thought he would live in something bigger - not because I’m a snob, my house is small, but because I know how much money he makes, especially with advertising, so I thought he’d be flashier. But this is nice, homely, with lots of pictures around of people who I presume are his family. He did tell me that he helped pay his sisters University fees, so maybe that takes a large part of his income, or maybe he’s really good with money and actually saving some.
Jack comes back in with drinks “Right, dinner is in the oven, twenty minutes and we’ll be ready.”
“Do you have black sauce?” Eli asks
Jack looks at me confused.
“He means barbecue sauce.”
Jack laughs “Yes little dude, I have barbecue sauce on practically everything.”
“Me too.” Eli looks impressed.
I reach over for my drink when there’s a knock at the door. Jack frowns and gets up to see who’s there. He comes walking back in with a look on his face I can't decipher.
“Who is it?” I ask, worried about his answer.
The next minute a gorgeous guy - that looks remarkably similar to Jack but larger built - is walking in, he has a beard and long hair tied back, tanned, Christ he’s good looking. No question he’s Jack’s brother, he’s ridiculously hot. Then behind him walks a young girl, beautiful. Long black hair, large brown eyes, she’s tall, again I can tell that its Jacks sister - they all look alike in their own way.
Next, I hear a voice “Come on, make room for us.”
