Page 3 of Tempt

“Never. I’m like a penguin. I roommate for life.” I toss my hair. “Seriously, it’s fine. I’ll keep the entire place for myself. Kat’s Den of Debauchery. Greek Row’s only a couple of blocks. Just wait, I’ll have an entire frat house worth of juniors tripping over themselves to fulfill my every desire.”

Except a big, empty apartment on campus sounds less fun than I’m making it out to be.

Liv squeezes my arm. “Are the three of us still going for Hoes over Brews?”

Are we?I want to ask.

We started the tradition of girls nights at our favorite pub back when we were single. But apparently everyone’s paired up.

“Ah—rain check. Classes were more intense than I thought.”

Her pretty face falls. “I’m sorry, Kat. I screwed this up.”

“You didn’t. We’ll catch up soon.” I let her hug me, but I suddenly feel out of place.

More out of place than I already did being one of the lone tall people surrounded by swarming children.

I turn toward the door, hurried and unseeing, and promptly run into a hard male chest.

The box tumbles toward the ground for a second time today.

This time, my glasses join them.

“Dammit!”

“Excuse me,” the chest says.

“How did you not see…?”

I trail off and look up into bottomless brown eyes.

They’re accompanied by a gorgeous face and square jaw topping off a hard, lean, and familiar body dressed to East Coast casual perfection in a button-down and jeans. He smells like a sexy forest and from the way his shirt clings, his abs are an eleven out of ten.

“Daniel,” I blurt.

“Kat. Hey.”

His voice is as beautiful as the rest of him.

“I’m here to get Andy.”

“Good. Because taking someone else’s child is a felony. You’re crushing this single dad thing.”

He rubs a hand over his face, hiding a self-deprecating smile.

A professor who’s closer to thirty than twenty, Daniel’s mature in a way no cocky college boy could compete with.

He’s also too tight-laced for his own good.

I’m go-with-the-flow, he’s by-the-book.

I’m free spirited, he’s responsible.

I’m independent, he has a cute kid who’s his whole world since his wife died.

It would never work.

Even if one night, I thought it might.

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