Page 9 of Catch a King (Five Kings 1)

She shrugs and looks out of the window, totally ignoring me as she leans her head against the glass and gets a faraway look in her eye. I try to look away but can’t resist checking her out as she appears to have drifted away from me and I wonder what’s running through her mind.

I lean back and stare past her at a painting on the wall and try to shift her from my mind. Just watching her is turning me on and when she answers me back, it lights a fuse inside that could burn out of control. Cursing myself for bringing her here in the first place, only the food arriving shifts my mind from her.

For all of a second though, because the way she attacks it makes me instantly hard. She eats like she means business, and the sight of her chewing on a sausage almost makes me groan out loud. Watching her heap maple syrup on her stack and groan as she chews, sends me over the edge and as she gasps when she licks the jelly on the edge of her toast, tests my resolve so hard, I finally snap.

“Do you have to make everything a sexual act?”

“What do you mean?”

She licks her fingers one by one and I stare into the pit of madness. “You! Groaning, licking and sucking your food like you’re starved of a man’s dick. It’s most distracting.”

She leans on the table and just seeing her cleavage is enough to send me feral and she laughs softly. “Ooh, someone isn’t getting it. If you see sex in breakfast, you’re beyond hope.”

“Listen, darlin’.” I exhale slowly. “If I wanted sex, it’s on tap at the Dragon’s Ruin. If I didn’t want it there, I could bend that waitress over the counter and fuck her senseless. If I wanted to, I could snap my fingers and a million women would come running. So no, don’t flatter yourself. I amnotinterested in you, in fact, seeing you eat like a perverted whore is enough to turn me off, for ever.”

I stare at her with a look of pure evil and she just shrugs. “Keep telling yourself that. Anyway, if you’re done, I’ll settle the check and you can drop me back to that disgusting pit. I have a hard day of cleaning ahead and shopping for some new furniture and bedding. I won’t spend another night on those sheets because it smells as if you relieved yourself in there before I came. Probably the only action you get anyway, and maybe that’s what floats your boat.”

She looks away before I can even think of a smart reply and smiles at the waitress. “Can you bring the check please honey, I’ll settle it.”

She turns and totally ignores me as she rummages in her back pocket and in doing so leans a little closer, giving me the perfect excuse to stare down her top. Then she retrieves her plastic and smiles. “Good, I’m going to hammer this baby good and hard today.”

I think I groan inside as I struggle to think of anything other than sex at this moment, and as the waitress brings the check, I grasp it quickly and snarl, “No chicks paying for me. Here.”

I slam the dollars on the table and include a large tip and then grab the infernal creature’s hand and pull her out of the diner at speed.

Before she can even object, I grab hold of her waist and pull her behind me on the bike and head off before she can say a word.

This was another big mistake because as she settles behind me and her arms wrap around my waist, I’m in hell.

Chapter 7

Millie

Ifeel much better now that I’ve eaten. Even though the company could have been better, I sucked it up and made the most of eating in a place that won’t give me food poisoning—here’s hoping, anyway.

Sawyer took off at speed and never said a word as he ground to a halt and almost pushed me off his bike before disappearing in a haze of smoke.

Not that I cared. I decided early on he was bad news, him and his brother, and I am staying away from the pair of them.

The first person I see is Marina, and she looks at me with interest. “Where have you been? I knocked to see if you fancied heading out for breakfast.”

“I wish I’d known; I was up early and found some myself in a nice little diner not far from here.”

“That’s odd, your car was in the yard, how did you get there?”

I fill her in and her eyes are wide when I finish.

“Honey, never go out without an escort. Thank God Sawyer found you, what were you thinking?”

“Not a lot, it seems. I was so hungry I couldn’t think straight.”

“Bad luck for finding Sawyer, though. I’m guessing he wasn’t the best of company.”

“You’re right there.” I laugh and she says with interest. “So, what are your plans? We could head out and grab some stuff if you like, I know all the best places to go.”

“I’d like that, thanks.”

Luckily for me, Marina has a huge SUV that we use to its fullest and by the time we have exhausted all the local stores, I have everything I need. Clean sheets, towels, cleaning supplies, and even some scatter cushions and a rug. In fact, we had such fun, the time ran away with us and we stop on the way back for a burger at a nearby takeout.

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