Page 25 of Roughing the Princess

“Oh, the pleasure is all mine,” Mav said and slid in front of me. He grabbed her hand and kissed the back of it.

Son of a bitch.

“We’ve heard a lot about you,” Jasper said and put his arm around her shoulders.

I was going to kill both of them.

Tova laughed. “I actually have a bone to pick with you, Jasper. Maybe don’t talk about me during your interviews?”

Jasper opened his mouth and then closed it again. “I can definitely do that from here on out. Now that I finally got you two together.” He guided her closer to me and dropped his arm.

“Hey,” she said, her voice hushed this time. She seemed nervous.

And it was strange, but I was too. We’d talked endlessly for weeks. But it had all been through texts.

“Hey,” I said back and smiled.

Her cheeks turned rosy again.

“You look beautiful…”

“Great game,” she said at the same time.

We both laughed.

God, I loved the sound of her laughter. My eyes dropped to her lips. And I swear she leaned a fraction of an inch closer.

“You came,” I whispered.

Her blue eyes met mine. “I mean…I haven’t yet, Talon,” she whispered. And then she laughed and pulled back a bit.

Fucking hell.This girl was sent straight from my dreams.

“Do you want to get out of here?” I asked.

She bit her lip as she stared up at me. “What exactly did you have in mind?”

I wanted to take her back to my place. I wanted her naked in my bed, screaming my name. I wanted to talk to her for hours. I just wanted to be with her.

“I need to steal your girl for a second and introduce her to everyone,” Jasper said. Before I could tell him no, he’d put his arm around Tova’s shoulders again and pulled her away from me.

Fuck.

Tova kept stealing glances at me over her shoulder as she shook hands with everyone.Or hugged them.Zayden Slayer lifted her up, hugging her way too tightly.Freaking rookie.

She looked over at me and smiled while she was mid-air in his arms.

It was like she knew I’d be jealous. Like she wanted it.

I folded my arms across my chest. Zayden didn’t have a shirt on, but at least he wasn’t naked. Everyone in the locker room had at least some clothing on, or towels. Or I would have lifted Tova over my shoulder and carried her out of the building.

Everyone kept snapping photos. And she signed everyone’s jersey who asked her. She was sweet. Kind. And she kept stealing glances at me.

It really seemed like she wanted me jealous. I just knew in my gut that she was kinky as hell.

I exhaled slowly. I’d rented out a whole restaurant for us tonight. I wanted to do this whole romantic dinner thing. Show her that I could be a gentleman, despite my forward texts. But now that she was here? I wasn’t sure I had enough self-control to make it through dinner.

I wanted to be alone with her.No.I needed to be alone with her. We were used to texting for hours. Just us and silence. I looked down the dark hallway that led to the showers, exit, and equipment room. I smiled. I had an idea.

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