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“Don’t you?” Manning goaded.
In her chair, Heavenly turned and studied him. Was she interested in his answer? The possibility made his dick stir and stretch.
“Of course you have nothing to say, Beckman,” Manning challenged. “Because I’m right.”
Beck scowled. “I’m just not dignifying your sexist bullshit with a reply. Try acting like an adult and a professional. Stop treating the workplace like a meat market and the nurses like pieces of ass.”
Manning’s eyes narrowed in silent threat. The dipshit wasn’t scared, which was both stupid and regrettable. Beck had mad skills, honed over nearly two decades, at inflicting pain. God, he’d love to unleash those on the prick right now.
“You’ve got everything wrong. I provide guidance to the nurses.” Manning puffed up. “I help them.”
Yeah, out of their panties and onto their backs…
“If Heavenly needs help, she’s got me. Don’t speak to her, look at her, or even think about her. Or I’ll tell HR everything about you.”
And it was plenty.
Heavenly’s lush mouth formed an O of shock. For a blinding moment, Beck itched to sink his fingers into her bun, cover her lips with his, and kiss her until she forgot every other man existed.
Manning pinned Beck with a deadly glare, then thrust his shoulders back with an infuriated huff at Heavenly. “I suggest you take your guard dog to the vet, Miss Young. He needs a rabies vaccination.”
When the plastic surgeon whirled away, Beck couldn’t resist an acidic parting shot. “Woof.”
As soon as Manwhore had gone, silence fell.
With a sorry-not-sorry grimace, he slid into the chair across from her. “I didn’t mean for that to get out of hand.”
“Oh, my gosh. I’m so glad it did.” Heavenly snickered. “That was funny, and I needed a laugh. Is everything you said about him true?”
“All of it.”
“Really? He and Kathryn?”
Beck nodded. “Marcella, too.”
“And the nursing student?”
“Oh, yeah. You’re hardly the first he’s offered to ‘open doors’ for.”
She shuddered. “What a slime! I told him four…no, five times that I wasn’t interested and I don’t have time to date, but he just wouldn’t get a clue.”
Beck understood. Her excuse wasn’t going to stop him, either. But dating? Hell, what did he know about that? With so many pain sluts willing to have no-strings sex, he’d never bothered.
“Manning isn’t a very bright bulb,” Beck drawled. “I’m not sure how he passed medical school.”
“Maybe he got by on bluster and…” She bit her lip, as if she didn’t want to say the obvious word.
“Bullshit?”
She flashed him a conspiratorial smile. “Exactly.”
He laughed, fascinated by her beauty, her sweetness, her charm. Her everything.
Good god, where was his man card?
“Anyway, thanks for sticking your neck out,” she murmured. “You’re protective—of Raine, the underdog, even of me. It’s really noble.”
Beck almost choked. His friends would shit themselves laughing if they could hear her. “You’re, um…welcome.”
She propped her chin on her palm and sent him a speculative stare. “And yet…I have a feeling you can be a very bad man.”
Heavenly was flirting? After saying she didn’t date? Then again, everything about her was unpracticed. She probably wasn’t even aware.
Oh, I would love to show you just how bad I can be, little girl.
“You might be right,” he replied with a sly wink.
She stared at him from under dark lashes. “Should that scare me?”
“I’d never hurt you.” Unless you begged me to.
Heavenly sighed. “I’ve never met a man like you.”
“What do you mean?” A kinky beast?
“Interesting. Witty. Thoughtful.”
“You left out charming, smart, and good-looking.”
She laughed without an ounce of reserve. “That, too.”
Beck mentally inventoried the smartass remarks in his repertoire, ready to roll more out to keep her smiling. “So where did you come from, Mars?”
“Ha! Actually, no. I’m from a tiny town in Wisconsin.” He didn’t miss the wistfulness that crossed her face. “Given the difference between LA and there? It might as well have been Mars.”
“You’re a long way from home, little girl.”
“You keep calling me that. I’m not a child, you know.”
“I didn’t mean it as an insult. I’m just saying you’re…”
Young.
Inexperienced.
Unjaded.
Everything he wasn’t.
“Practically a baby and in over my head? I’ve heard that before.” She shrugged. “Age is just a number.”
She was wrong. That was a platitude the young spouted when they weren’t too cynical to know better. But Beck liked her attitude. He couldn’t wait to peel back that mysterious something about her that drew him and touch the woman underneath. Then he’d teach her about sex and pain and orgasm. About the feel of his hand on her lush backside. About the fit of his cock deep inside her pussy.
“If you say so,” he drawled. “So, I’ve never been to Wisconsin. Tell me what it’s like. I’m imagining a lot of snow and fields of cheese.”
“The snow part is true enough, but cheese doesn’t grow in fields, Dr. Beckman. And if you think I’ve been living on Mars, what planet does that make you from?”
