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“It’s not a good idea. It sucks. And I don’t know any polite way to tell you this, but I’ve been making like a physics whiz. Dazzling this guy with Mina’s brain. That’s what this asshole gets hot for. Understand?”
She put her hands over the hot red spots flaring in her face. “So what you’re saying is that I’m not smart enough?”
Miles looked pained. “You said it, Cin. Not me. You play a mean saxophone. I talk shop about acoustic physics. We all have our gifts.”
“Oh, shut up,” she said, through the snot bubbling in her nose. “Don’t condescend to me. How smart can these geeks be? They’re dumb enough to get nabbed, aren’t they? And when it comes to getting mixed up with the wrong kind of guy, I’m, like, unbeatable.”
“Do not mention this to anybody.” Miles’s voice had a steely tone.
“Oh, no. Don’t worry. I understand,” she babbled, through her tears. “God forbid that Connor and his brothers should find out that you talked about their big manly business to a fluff like me.”
“Stop feeling sorry for yourself, Cin. It’s a really bad habit.”
“Don’t lecture me!” she shot back. “You’re not my friend anymore, so you no longer have the right.” She wiped her nose with the back of her hand, sniffing angrily. “OK, never mind me and my dumb ideas. I’ll just hire you to do Javier’s tape. How much do you want?”
Miles groaned, beneath his breath. “Cut it out, Cin.”
“No, really. I’ve got some money saved. Quote me your hourly rate. Just don’t tell Javier, because he’d be really embarrassed.”
“I’m not going to let you jerk me around,” Miles said.
“I’m not jerking you around!” she yelled. “God, what do I have to do to persuade you? What do you want from me, a blow job?”
The next fraction of a second was very weird. One moment she was standing there blubbering. The next, her back was flat against the wall, with Miles’s surprisingly hard body holding her there.
Breathless. Squished. Startled…and scared.
“Do not ever,everjoke about that with me,” he said.
Miles’s hoarse whisper sent shivers up her spine. She made a sound like a rusty hinge. She noticed random, disconnected things. Like he had nice breath. A sexy mouth. And his nose was swelling up.
Yikes. Miles’s nose had been really formidable to begin with.
“Ever again,” he repeated softly. “Not. Funny. At all. Got it?”
She licked her lips, and nodded. “Sorry,” she mouthed.
He didn’t let go. Just loomed over her, vibing like crazy. Wow.
Miles was freakishly tall, but he’d never loomed before. But then again, looming was a state of mind. The McCloud guys were all loomers, every last one of them. Miles must have learned the art from them.
He’d learned it really well. Her head flopped back so far to look up at him, her neck hurt. She’d never felt this quality of energy buzzing off him before. And intense heat was radiating from the hard bulge at his crotch. She sneaked a quick peek, and almost squeaked. Gosh. The old joke about long noses must be literally true. Miles was hung.
It was like there was a volcano inside him. Her geeky old best buddy was looking at her as if he were about to grab her and kiss her.
And for one wild, crazy second, she actually wanted him to.
He stepped back, broke eye contact, broke the spell. “Sorry.” He looked away. “Didn’t mean to scare you.”
Her heart thudded. Her knees felt wiggly and weak. “Oh, puhleeze. Give me a break. I wasn’t scared,” she lied.
“Bring the kid to record his thing tomorrow at noon. Don’t be late. I’ve got things to do.” He yanked the door open, and marched out.
Well, that settled that. His lats and traps were finger-licking good. And his ass was just as good as she had imagined.
CHAPTER15
Besides being butt-ugly, the fogeymobile was a rattling, tubercular piece of shit. Sean tried to coax more speed out of the old monster, but when he hit sixty, it started to shimmy all over the road.
