Page 64 of Seizing Mack
“Jesus,” he breathed. “Are all the men in this town fucking morons?”
She scoffed softly, but deep in her chest, her heart beat a little faster. That didn’t stop the next words from crossing her lips. “The kind who prefer tall, svelte blondes.”Like Delilah.
When he didn’t say anything more, Mack chanced a glance upward to find Nick looking directly into her eyes. “You know what men see when they look at a woman like that?”
Yeah, she knew exactly what men saw when they looked at Delilah. Femininity. Desire. They experienced an immediate rise in testosterone and the urge to fall all over themselves to get her favor. But she said none of that, biting back the words and shaking her head.
“They see guaranteed sex and bragging rights. But you know what they see when they look at you?”
“A woman who can bench press three times their own weight?” she quipped, her mind and heart scrambling to re-build those crumbling shields around her heart.
“They see a woman who is so beautiful, so damn smexy, it scares the crap out of them.”
“Smexy?” Shocked and certain she’d heard wrong, she latched onto that. “You think I’m smexy?”
“The perfect combination of smart and sexy? Yes,” he confirmed. “And they also know you are not the kind of woman who is going to give them what they want without a whole lot of serious time and effort, so they go for the low-hanging fruit, like Delilah. But you know what?”
“What?” She held her breath.
“I’m all about the time and effort, Mack.”
