Page 32 of Tesio
Chapter Seventeen
It was pretty fuckingobvious, but I turned to her anyway, and pointed at the thing she’d obviously noticed, since I’d flipped it off just in case Ice was watching.
“It’s called a camera. It records things.” Fuck! Itrecords. Ice saw us, but did that fucker also record us?
“You bastard! Was this all a game to you? Was it a fucking ploy, just to get some kind of collateral to use against me? Just when I was starting to… to… my god, I’m such an idiot! I was worrying about you, and this whole time, you were being a complete dick!”
I held up my hands, trying to stem the barrage of bitching, so I could try and respond.
“Shut it, and let me catch up. Jesus, woman, why use five words, when fifty will do the trick, right?”
“You’re such an asshole! Why did I even trust you like that?!”
I had the urge to cover that mouth for her, but once bitten and all that, well, twice, actually.
“You’re making assumptions, and why wouldn’t you? I’m just some no good biker, right? Not worthy of the fucking princess here.”
Her fists clenched as she advanced on me, and fuck me, if she tried to arrest me right now, I’d probably come in my pants, because she was hot when she was pissed.
“Don’t turn this on me! I’m not the sicko who filmed us having sex, which is a crime, by the way. I could arrest you for that.”
I grinned, holding out my wrists. “Go right ahead, cop, you’re sexy as hell right now.”
“I’m serious! How could you do that?” No, wait, she wasn’t pissed, she wasupset. I lowered my hands and stepped closer, risking life and limb to tuck my fingers under her chin, and lift it. There were tears, fuck me, she was that upset.
“I didn’t video us, little pain, I promise you that. That camera is here to protect the crates, that’s all. I flipped it off, because I have a backup guy who checks in on it. I wanted to make sure he knew to fuck off, that’s all. There’s no video. I’m a dick, but I wouldn’t do that. Not to anyone, but especially not to you.”
She sniffled a little, but I noticed that she wasn’t pulling away, yet again.
“Because I’m a cop, I know.”
I shook my head. “No, because you’re you, and you deserve my respect. Look, we got off on the wrong foot, and we’ve yelled all kinds of insults, but for some weird reason, call it a brainfart, I kinda like you. Last night was fucking hot, but not for anyone else’s eyes, although, so you know, the angle would have shown me, and not you. If I thought someone saw you naked, I’d kill them in a heartbeat.”
Her pouty lips twitched, and she gave in, smiling, then a soft giggle.
“You shouldn’t admit such things to an officer of the law, Grease. I’d have to arrest you, but I’m starting to think you’d like that.”
I tugged her closer, my free hand cupping the back of her head, as I stroked her lips.
“I’ll let you cuff me anytime, babe, but I’d prefer to be in a bed with you. You wanna be in my bed?”
Her breathing rasped as she nodded, biting her lip.
“I shouldn’t, but I do.”
Jamie
He was all thewrong things, but something about him was so right for me. He matched my aggressive sass, and challenged me with every word. It was intoxicating, to meet a man who wasn’t put off by that. Maybe I’d been hounding him out of attraction after all.
“Here’s your phone, babe. Let’s get you out of here for now, but come back tonight, and I’ll make you scream the clubhouse down.”
God yes. I took the phone and cupped his face in my hands.
“Grease, you’re almost nice sometimes, try not to ruin what we have.”
He grinned, and kissed me hard, and you know what? That was exactly the right response, as far as I was concerned. What more was there to say, right?
So imagine how discardedand foolish I felt, when I turned up again later, to find out that he was offsite for the night. I had to be told by the poor gate prospect that he wasn’t around, and he didn’t realise he’d ghosted me, but he could tell the news hurt me, because I couldn’t hide my reaction quickly enough.
