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How embarrassing.
“Don’t ever, ever, ever say anything like that again,” I warned him on a threatening hiss. “There is no way on God’s green earth that Vaughn and I would—we just…” I shook my head and lowered my hand, moaning, “I can’t believe you even suggested that.” Then I leaned even closer and lowered my whisper some more as I told him, “I’ve had sex with his brother.”
Trick made a face as if that wasn’t any kind of big deal. “I mean…” He shrugged. “Not very good sex, from what I heard.”
“Oh my God,” I repeated, at a loss for thinking up any other phrase as I thumped a palm to my brow and closed my eyes. “You are unbelievable.”
“What?” He sounded so clueless that I had to think he truly didn’t see the problem with what he was saying. “I’m just calling it like I see it.”
I blew out a breath and clasped my hands together near my chest. “Alright, then,” I announced in an upbeat tone. “So you should probably be going now.” Before I strangled him for any other preposterous notion he tried to bring up.
Opening the door, I nudged him outside, and he followed the pressure from my hand willingly enough, even as he grinned over his shoulder at me.
“Deny it all you want, Luck,” he taunted. “But I know what I saw, and right or wrong, you two want to jump each other’s bones. Bad.”
“You’re insane,” I shot back, then shut the door in his face.
I swear, I heard him chuckle through the wood, and it made me grind my teeth in frustration.
Because he was wrong. I mean, he was so wrong it was actually humorous.
I was a brand-new mother here. I didn’t want to jump anyone’s bones. I didn’t even want to think about sex. My body was still sore in places that I didn’t even know it could get sore.
Bone-jumping was the very last thing on my agenda.
Just…
Eww.
Trick was an idiot. And way out of line. That’s all there was to it.
Yet even as I convinced myself that was how it was, my gaze veered toward the opening of the hall where Vaughn had disappeared with my child, and a shockwave of arousal prickled its way over my flesh.
“Oh God,” I hissed, crossing my arms over my breasts and hugging the sensitive assholes. I don’t know what was wrong with me. This was just so freaking inappropriate.
Damn Trick for figuring out the most private, humiliating thoughts swimming through my head.
There was no way he was going to keep this to himself either. The entire family was probably going to know before the end of the day that I wanted to jump my dead baby daddy’s brother’s bones.
Closing my eyes, I whimpered out my distress and then exhaled and stiffened my shoulders, already bracing for the fallout. The first thing I had to do was play it off like it was nothing in front of Vaughn.
Prepared to fake it so at least he wouldn’t know how truly depraved I was, I lifted my chin and started down the hall to seek him out.
About halfway down, I heard his low voice. It moved through me with a fluttering vibration that nearly made me shudder with need, but I managed to hold myself firm as I slowed to a stop just outside the door to the nursery.
“God, I love your smell,” he was saying as I peeked around the corner to see him sitting in the chair with Ava and leaning down so he could press his nose to her head. A second later, he rested his cheek on her baby fuzz and grinned. “Seriously, you smell so good. Like, I don’t know… Baby shampoo and your mama, I think. It’s freaking addictive.”
I swallowed, not at all imagining him smelling me that way.
Then he buried his nose in the crook of my baby’s neck, making her squirm and let out an indignant sound.
Chuckling, he pulled away and lifted his face. “What? Too much? Alright, I’ll stop smelling you like some kind of creeper. I just can’t get enough of you. You’re so incredibly cute.”
I grinned and lifted my hand to the door jamb, unable to stop watching him cuddle my baby.
“I can already imagine how the boys are going to chase you when you get older.” Furrowing his brow, he pointed at Ava’s nose and added, “I’m going to have to vet each and every one of them; I hope you understand. Only the best is going to be allowed to get anywhere near my niece.”
I sniffed in amusement, and Vaughn lifted his face in surprise.
