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Savage, brutal, and uninhabitable.
I wanted to take a step away, and another, until I backed myself right out of the VIP area. Then I’d hightail it out of this place, because I distinctly felt like bait thrown into a predator’s lair.
But I couldn’t. As part of our plan, I was to hold down the fort and distract Nicu while Cat attempted to seduce Luca. So I did the one thing I knew was bound to give me the most trouble. I sat down.
At least I had the wherewithal to sit across from him, keeping as much distance as possible between us.
Settling against the high back of the banquette, I raked my eyes over him. Starting at the top of his perfectly tousled hair, I slowly meandered down to the large, masculine hand wrapped around the glass of liquor he was nursing.
So this was Nicu.
I could say, without an iota of exaggeration, that he was a deadly specimen of a man. Powerful, with the familiar arrogance that came from men who were naturally intense. It wasn’t his icy-blue eyes—deadly but piercing, framed by black eyelashes—that unsettled me. Nor was it his tawny skin with a five o’clock shadow that I instinctively knew would leave delicious scrapes on my inner thighs. It was his beautifully sculpted, cruel mouth that did me in. Especially when one side curled up in a devastating half smile.
With the full bast of his attention on me for so long, I shivered in the black crepe Dolce and Gabbana dress that barely covered my full ass. Grasping the wineglass in front of me, I took a couple of deep swallows.
“Cold?” he asked.
Startled out of my reverie, I jerked slightly and went with a casual response. “Not too much.”
“Here,” he replied as he stood up and began stripping off his jacket.
Eyes bulging, I swung my gaze left to right. “What are you doing?”
He handed it to me over the table of the booth.
I stared up his long arm and then back down his hand to long, elegant fingers that tapered into perfectly groomed half-moon nails.
He pushed the jacket closer.
“Go on, put the men out of their misery. There’s only so much they can take, and I’m not in the mood to fight tonight.”
I glared at him.
“What does that even mean?” I asked suspiciously. Figuring I’d have to distract the bouncers at the door to sneak Cat and myself into this club with our awful fake IDs, I’d worn a low-cut dress that did little to hide my assets. Although Nicu’s attention was not on my chest like the other men in the club, I assumed he was referring to my outfit. My gaze scoured the tables around ours.
“I don’t see anyone staring at me,” I replied, indignant.
“Then you’re blind,” he replied blandly. He pushed the jacket closer and hardened his tone with a command. “Take it.”
Giving him an annoyed grunt, I snatched the jacket and put it on. His ravenous gaze watched every moment of me struggling with it. Finally, I managed to wrap it around me and sat back down with a huff. Dear God. His scent surrounded me, earthy, with clean and bright hints of citrus. Like my favorite tea, Earl Grey. Damn him for being so sexy that even his smell was perfect.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, the jacket was warm from his residual body heat. I hadn’t realized how chilled I was, now that I was no longer dancing, as I had downstairs to work up Cat’s courage before we made our way upstairs.
“Better,” he muttered.
“What did you say?”
One side of his mouth ticked up again. “I said, ‘better.’ I’d much prefer to sit down with you and relax than fight a man for ogling you.”
“You’re delusional. No one was ogling me.”
“Oh, believe me, pretty doll.” He nodded sagely. “They were ogling, for sure.”
“A woman’s allowed to wear what she wants,” I countered.
He draped an arm over the back of the booth. An eerie pattern of a red wolf head baring its teeth was worked into the black leather and shimmered under the light of the black chandelier above us.
The Lupu wolf.
