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CHAPTERSEVENTEEN
Love Is A Bitch
BEAST
“Remind me again why we’re here eating Chinese takeaway and not at Sapori’s enjoying the fine dining experience with Romeo low-key flirting with you?” I ask, as we sit at the table nearest to the stage at Nine Lives, the strip club that Kate has revamped since I offed Carter.
“Because I wanted to be alone with you.Just you…” she replies, stabbing her fork into a king prawn and popping it into her mouth.
“We could’ve just gone back to your place,” I say, leaning over and swiping at some sweet and sour sauce on the corner of her lips before licking it off my thumb.
“We’re never really alone there either,” she points out.
“You could just ask me to move in and then you won’t need Cleveland and Harris acting as bodyguards because you’ll have me there twenty-four seven, just as it should be.”
“Bit presumptuous, don’t you think? I might like my own space.”
“You wound me,” I joke, placing my hand over my heart.
“I don’t mean to keep you waiting,” she adds quickly. “Iamserious about us. You know that, right?”
“Of course I do, and you gotta know that I’d move in with you in a heartbeat. It’s not as though we’ve spent that many nights apart since I returned anyway. But, if you need a bit of time to make that step, then you’ve got it. Whatever you need.”
“I appreciate that,” she replies.
“Good. So getting back to the point at hand, why are we here exactly? Because in a couple hours this place is going to be heaving with punters.”
“I’m well aware of the business hours, Beast.” She smiles then, taking a swig on her bottle of beer.
“Shouldn’t Matty and Nancy be here already?” I ask, peering over my shoulder towards the door that leads to the girl’s changing room and Matty’s office.
“Nope. I asked them to give us an hour alone. It’s just us. No bodyguards. No punters. No kids or arsehole criminals to worry about. No trouble. Just us.”
“Okay, you’ve got my attention. Come on Kate, spill. Why are we here?”
Kate chews on the inside of her cheek the way she’s prone to doing when she’s nervous. It’s something that I’ve never seen her do in public since I’ve been back, and I know she hates that she does it, but I find it endearing. It reminds me that she’s a woman with as many insecurities as the rest of the population and not just this badass queen who isn’t afraid of anything. It makes me love and appreciate all aspects of her.
“Okay, so last week we reenacted that moment between us in my bedroom two years ago…”
“We did,” I agree. “Though, I gotta say, we did embellish it a little.”
She grins. “Thank fuck.”
“Yeah, thank fuck. Junior was certainly pleased.”
“Wait!” she says, wrinkling her nose, laughter in her eyes. “Please tell me you didn’t just call your dick, Junior?”
“What would you rather I call it?Moby Dick?”
“Moby Dick?!” she splutters, choking on the mouthful of beer she’s just swallowed.
“Yeah, why not? We both know that my cock is the biggest monster you’ve ever seen.”
“Theonlyone I’ve ever seen. It’s not as if I’ve got anything to compare it to. For all I know you’ve got a weiner.”
“A weiner?! The fuck I have, more like a Thor’s hammer because this bad boy likes to grab and smash.”
“Oh. My. God!” Kate says, flinging back her head and barking out a laugh, which sets me off too. “That’s Hulk, you idiot.”
