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I opened my mouth to speak, but my throat had gone tight, leaving me no alternative but to nod.

After taking another quick look at me, he took a step back. He tilted his head toward the door. “C’mon.”

I shot him a deer in the headlights look. Somehow, I managed to speak. Kind of. “Huh?”

He did the head toward the door thing again. “C’mon, we’re leaving.”

“We’re uhhm...” I stammered.

He hadn’t even introduced himself. I looked at Lex. She shrugged. I looked up and blinked a few times. “Leaving?”

His eyes fell to my boobs. He grinned and coughed his response. “Yeah.”

I had just finished my period, and I was horny as hell, but I wasn’t an easy lay. I was pretty sure I’d let him fuck me at some point, but it wasn’t going to happen until I wanted it to. Hot biker or not, he was going to have to wait until I was ready.

“I’m not going anywhere,” I said adamantly. “Not yet, anyway. You haven’t even introduced yourself. Sit down.”

He pursed his lips, looked me over, and then grabbed the seat beside me. After turning it around backward, he sat and draped his arms over the chair’s back. I glanced at his full sleeve of tattoos, but made it a point not to stare.

A colorful array of dragons, flowers, and skulls covered his right arm all the way down to his hand.

Interesting.

He cleared his throat. “Name’s Smoke.”

“Smoke?” I chuckled. “That’s your name?”

He nodded. “Yep.”

“Mine’s Fire,” I said with a laugh.

He didn’t seem amused. I wrestled the smile from my face and changed my tone to serious. “Seriously, what’s your name?”

“Smoke,” he said flatly.

“Okay.” I nodded and extended my hand. “I’m Sandy. Nice to meet you, Smoke.”

He shook my hand and gave a slight grin. “Ditto.”

His sexy appearance and handsome looks had my interest. The jury, however, was still out on him. As I stared back at him and tried to decide what to talk about, I wondered just where he thought we were going to go had I chosen to get up and leave when he asked me.

He tilted his head toward the bucket of beers. “You mind?”

“No, we ordered them for you guys.”

“Appreciate ya.” He pulled a bottle from the bucket, handed it to Cholo, and then grabbed another. After opening it, he drank half the bottle in one gulp.

“So, what do you two want to do?” Lex asked.

I shifted my eyes from him to her and shrugged. “I don’t care.”

I really didn’t. The excitement of meeting someone new had taken over, and whatever we chose to do would satisfy me.

“We could go for a ride,” Cholo said.

“We’re headed out in a minute,” Smoke said.

I looked at him. He was leaning over the back of the chair with the bottle of beer, which was now empty, dangling loosely from his fingertips.