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I take the other side of the couch and sit down just as the screen starts counting down from three.“Maybe I’llletyou win, beautiful.”
She snaps narrowed eyes my way.“You wouldn’t dare ...”
“Oh, look.Green flag,” I say, smirking as my car shoots off the start line and accelerates ahead of her stationary one.
“I see how it is,” she murmurs, quickly catching up to me as we speed around the track.Little grunts and huffs of breath are the only sounds in the room other than the game’s commentators and the loud roar of the car engines.
“So ...I was thinking,” I say, my entire torso turning in the same direction I’m steering, as if I’m actually driving the car in real life.
“Hmmm ...”
“Charity auction next weekend.You’re gonna be my plus one, right?”
“Uh-huh ...”She sounds distracted, as if her focus is taken up by the action in the game.“Why?Do you want to bring someone else?”she asks after I don’t say anything for a spell.
“What?No.Of course not,” I say with a gasp.
“Oh.Okay.Good.”
“Why would you even ask that?”I miss a chicane and end up having my lap time deleted, the distraction giving Lonnie the chance to catch up so she’s right on my ass now.
“No reason.Just as long as you know I’d understand if you wanted to take a date or—”
I give up the race and drop the controller on the couch between us, turning my whole body sideways to face her.
“Luc.The race!”she gasps as she quickly pauses the game.
“Fuck the race.”
“O ...kaaay ...”Fuck, she looks adorably confused right now.In fact, she’s cute all the time, but even more so when she doesn’t know what’s going on.
“No.What Imeanis, I don’t want you thinking that I don’t want you at the auction.”
“Okay, then.That’s good.Can we get back to the race now?I was just about to kick your ass.”
Snorting, I shake my head.“I actually have a favor to ask.”
She frowns, her brows furrowed into a point.When her gaze turns expectant, I press on, ignoring the fact that my chest feels tight and my throat is suddenly as dry as the Mojave desert.
“Don’t leaving me hanging here, Luc.What is it?”
“I need you to bid on me for the auction,” I blurt out, my voice surprisingly and thankfully steady despite the mess of nerves I am inside.
London tilts her head.“Why?”
“Because the guys got in my head, and now they’ve got me having nightmares that some horny old lady is going to bid on me and make me her house boy.”
A giggle escapes her before she purses her lips, her eyes dancing with amusement as she seems to struggle to hold it in.“Luc ...”
“I’m deadly serious.I’m far too pretty to be a house boy, and I suck at cleaning in an apron andonlyan apron.”That earns me full on laughter.“It’s not funny!”
She snorts.“It kind of is, Luc.I promise you, it won’t be a grandma looking for a firefighter of her own to use and abuse.It’ll probably just be someone wanting things done around the house.That sort of thing.”
“They’ll probably want me to dothemaround the house.”
“Oh God.”She snickers.The things her laugh does to me ...I reallydohave it bad.
“That’s why I need you,” I say.
