Without a word, she spun on her fancy heels and started walking back to her car. And just because I couldn’t let it go, I snapped to and rushed around her. With a wicked smirk, I opened her door just as she reached her car. She paused before getting in, keys gripped tightly in her hand that came to rest on the roof of her overly-priced vehicle. Her other hand, the one with the ridiculous rock, clenched the top of the open door frame.
“Thank you,” she said in a tone that told me the words were spoken only because she felt the need to be polite. I held back an eye roll.
She started to duck down, then straightened back up, her eyes blazing fire as she looked at me.
“It wasn’t easy for me to come here,” she said and I stood to my full height, only towering over her by a few inches. “And not for the reasons that you more than likely have running through your head. You don’t know me, so I would appreciate it if you don’t look down on me for the last name that I happened to be born with.”
Somehow she had stepped out of the open door space and was only inches from my face now. She still held a sweetness in her anger and I think I admired it right then.
“It has nothing to do with your last name, princess.”
“Then what? You don’t know a thing about me, yet you seem to have such disdain for me.”
“You nearly ran over me in your stupid car and didn’t even notice,” I gritted out stepping up to her so we were nearly chest-to-chest. “And I can see it in your eyes. You look down on me because I’m a biker and I belong to… this.” I waved my hand in a mocking manner much like she had a few moments ago.
“You are the most insufferable man I’ve ever met,” she said, her eyes pinning me with a burning fire. But I couldn’t tell if it was hatred or something else.
“You are the most stuck-up woman I’ve ever had to deal with,” I growled low.
“You…” I waited but nothing followed. Was that supposed to be an insult?
“Yeah, me,” I said and at this point, I was so in her face that her back was pressed firmly against her car and she had nowhere else to go.
Then it happened. One little movement that broke me. The tension so thick between us that it almost overshadowed the electrical zing all around us.
She licked her bottom lip. It wasn’t missed by me. And I would have bet she wasn’t even aware that she’d done it. But as that little pink hint of her tongue poked out, I could think of nothing else but knowing what it felt like gliding over my own.
My head ducked down, my lips so close to hers as my arms came up and caged her in tighter to the side of her car. I paused briefly once my bottom lip barely grazed hers. I wasn’t going to take if it wasn’t wanted. But how I fucking wished she did.
There was a sharp intake of air from her before her head tilted up enough so that our lips met.
Then it was chaos as we both fought to control the kiss.
My body pressed closer to hers. Her hands attempted to fist my short hair while my hands got a mind of their own and latched onto her lower back. Her hips bucked into me. And because I couldn’t help it, I pushed back into her, letting her feel just how hard she made me.
I nipped her bottom lip then slid my tongue between her parted lips. I was lost. To her. To the kiss. To something that I knew I had no right taking joy in.
We broke apart and it wasn’t even a second before I saw her world crumbling behind her eyes. Her dainty hand came up to touch her swollen lips and that moment her face started to harden. I backed up, letting her go because trying to work this out, whatever the hell it was, would have done more bad than good at that moment.
She quickly slid into her car, turned over the ignition, and sped away.
With a sigh, I looked around to make sure no one had seen what had just transpired. The place was clear and I was grateful. I definitely didn’t want to talk about what had happened with my brothers. I sure as hell didn’t want to admit that the kiss I’d had with Laurel had been a life changer. Which only led me to thinking about Brand. I wasn’t going to fuck up things further for him.
So as I walked into the clubhouse, I did everything I could think of to forget that it had even happened.
