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Beth crossed her arms. “And when do I get the honor of meeting her?”
“Whenever she comes to our side of town,” Pierce told her.
Beth brought her hand to her hip and she looked so sexy doing it, but if I thought about it too much, I’d be sporting an erection, and that was very inappropriate. Beth would think I was truly deviant. And I didn’t know if Pierce would try to kick my ass or rag on me forever about it. Or both.
“How’s her body temperature?” I asked her.
“Back to normal.”
I turned off the stove and poured some steaming soup into the bowl. Beth took it from me. I texted Gavin an update.
When I raised my head, Beth and Pierce peered at me expectantly. “Let Bri know that Gavin said he’s not mad at her,” I told Beth.
***
It was almost four in the morning when I parked in front to the Pruitts’ house. Beth had tried to keep up a conversation with me, but she had fallen asleep on the way over here. She looked so peaceful that I let her rest. I wanted her to stay in my guestroom. I would’ve slept on the floor, but she wanted to go to the Pruitts’.
When Gavin had come down the stairs after seeing that Bri was in a no man’s land deep sleep, he’d hugged Beth so many times, I thought he was gonna kiss her too. And while I understood how grateful he was, I held myself back from stepping in between them.
Beth stirred and turned her head toward me. I brushed a strand of hair away from her face. She wet her lips and swallowed.
“Sorry.” She wiped her eyes. “You were saying something?” she asked me, her voice sleepy, huskier than last night. I supposed that was how her voice was when she woke up in the morning. Would I ever know what it was like to wake up with her in the morning? I’d never had that experience because right after sex, I’d left the girl—or the girls, now that I recalled.
“I was just saying that it was cool for you to stay and not have Pierce drive you here before he went to Mona’s. Bri didn’t want me with her.” I gave a short laugh at the memory; Bri had covered herself with her comforter when she’d realized I’d been standing by the door.
“No, she didn’t.” Beth smirked.
I opened my glove compartment and took an envelope from it.
“What’s the envelope for?”
“Tickets for the Tainted Virtue concert.”
“Oh, Chase, I—”
I put my hand on hers and found her skin to be a little cool for my liking. She was still in my hoodie but she needed to be in her room, under the covers of her bed. “I listened to everything you said last night. Take Bri with you to the concert. She likes them too.”
“But you planned for us to go. It’s not right. Take someone else with you. She and I will do something else.”
“Beth, you don’t want me to take another chick to a Tainted Virtue concert, or any other place.” She started looking at my hand over hers. “They won’t be in Florida after tomorrow and this might be the only chance Bri has to see them perform. She can forget about last night for a few hours.”
I drew my hand back and slipped the envelope beneath her fin
gers. Beth bobbed her head. I reached over and pressed my lips to the bridge of her nose. When she shifted in her seat, I lowered my mouth to hers for a second. And then I withdrew. She gripped my hand back.
Her lips twisted into a wry grin. “I’ll make sure it’s an alcohol-free night for us.”
Once Beth was safely inside in the Pruitts’ home, my car filled with the real vanilla and honey scent that belonged to her. I licked my lips and still tasted her sweet, natural flavor on my lips.
Chapter 9
Bethany
“You lucky bitch!” Mariska cried.
“Hey! It was only two days ago that Chase told me he’d take me to a Tainted Virtue concert, and then the thing with and him Cassidy blew up in my face.”
“You said that you think he’s being on the up-and-up with you. Don’t lie so I don’t talk to him,” Jake told me.
