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She stepped forward until she was straddling his knees, then sat.
He tried to force his brain to think about other things, but his brain was more than content to think about the curvaceous female in his lap.
She leaned forward to whisper in his ear. “Come on, baby, teach me something I don’t know.”
Her voice was full of suggestion and his body wasn’t complaining.
And that’s exactly why he needed to shut her down.
“Sure,” he said, loading his voice with just as much suggestion—but adding a touch of mockery. “Want to learn how to drive a stick?”
Quinn snorted.
Kate was just staring at him, as if trying to sort through the innuendo. Some of her easy confidence stumbled a bit.
Good. It was nice to know she could falter.
While she was off balance, he put his hands on her waist and lifted her, setting her to the side and shoving a hand into his pocket for his keys. “Come on,” he said. “Try not to tear up my clutch.”
He was already on the steps, but she was just staring after him. “Your clutch—? What are—”
But he was already through the door, heading for his jeep, not bothering to wait to see whether she’d follow.
Kate had half a mind to let him just leave. It would serve him right, and she sure wasn’t the type to go scampering after a boy just because he snapped his fingers.
But the whole reason she’d come here was to talk to Hunter privately, and here he was giving her the perfect way to do just that.
She caught up to him beside his jeep. His dog was already in the back, flopped out on the backseat.
“Get in,” Hunter said.
He barely gave her time to obey, because he was throwing the car into gear before she even had the door closed.
Her heart was skipping to some rhythm she couldn’t figure out, but she pulled a stick of gum out of her bag like she was bored, then rolled it into her mouth. “Are we running from something?”
“No, I just needed to get out of there.”
“Trouble in paradise?”
“Tell me, Kate, do you have absolutely no self-confidence, or are you just completely full of yourself and you don’t give a shit about anyone else?”
She almost choked on the gum.
Hunter came to a stop sign at the end of the road and turned to look at her. “What are you really doing here?”
“I was invited.”
“Yeah, and how’d you drum up an invitation? Did you send Nick Merrick na**d pictures of yourself?”
She wanted to punch him, but some part of his words were ringing true, and that stung like crazy. “What do you care if I did?”
He turned back to the road and hit the accelerator.
“Jealous much?” she said.
His jaw was so tight she could make out the lines where muscle met bone. “If we’ve decided the problem is Calla and a bunch of middle schoolers, you shouldn’t be hanging out with the Merricks.”
“They invited me!”
