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“Oh, there is so a this.” I inched my face closer to hers. She held her breath and backed away. “The first time I kiss youwon’tbe in a crowded club.”
“I’m not kissing you.” Her voice tripped over the words.
I smirked. “Yeah. You’re gonna kiss me. And Easy? I’m gonna kiss you right back.”
I spun Baker before I pulled her back against me. “You wanna dance? Then let’s dance.”
Chapter Five
Baker
He came here.
For me.
And he wanted me.
Down, down, down I went, consumed with how good it felt to be desired again. I hadn’t been with anyone since I’d arrived at Paths, hadn’t even considered it. Yet Holt had my mind going places it hadn’t been in years . . . maybe ever. I could easily get addicted to this feeling, which meant I couldn’t have him. Even if he wasn’t my roommate, he was still off limits.
Too dangerous.
Too easy to get sucked into.
My body moved of its own volition, following where he led. My hands threaded through the back of his hair and pulled in punishment for being so damn irresistible. But it was me who paid the penance when a low rumble escaped him, his chest vibrating against mine. Dark eyes threatened me with the promise of pleasure. All I had to do was reach out and take it.
And then I remembered that he hadn’t come home last night. Had probably seduced some unsuspecting woman with his sweet talk and sexy smile.
He brushed his thumb across my lips. “I thought we were having fun.” The playfulness in his tone from minutes before had vanished. He didn’t get to act like he cared about me. Not when he’d been with someone else less than twenty-four hours ago. Hell, less thantwelvehours ago.
Ugh.
The thought of him waking up in another woman’s bed nauseated me.
I shoved at his chest, no longer thrilled with his tainted hands on me. Holt didn’t budge.
“Let me go,” I hissed.
“Can’t do that, Easy.” He was far too calm for my liking.
“You’rethe easy one,” I said petulantly, the green streak of jealousy on display for him to see.
Confusion flitted across his face. I pushed again, somehow managing to break out of his hold.
I wrestled my way through the wall-to-wall dancers, my anger propelling me forward. Stupid. I was so so stupid. This was how it had all started before. When I’d gotten myself in more trouble than I could have ever imagined.
The room spun as I made it to the fringe of the dance floor. Pounding bass throbbed until my heart matched its rhythm. All I could hear was thethump, thump, thump,but what I saw terrified me. I was no longer in the club, but back in the car that had been my nightmare. I’d thought it was the safest place in the world.
“We’re gonna leave our mark, baby. You and me. Nobody’s ever gonna forget us.”
That slow grin. The way I’d believed the words he’d spoken. He’d been right. I just didn’t know I’d spend the rest of my life trying to make people forget me.
I stumbled, throwing out my arm against a wall for support. Steady hands found my waist. Endless pools of concern peered down at me.
I jolted, slapping his hands away. “You—you don’t get to do that.” I shoved a finger into his chest, shouting above the music.Nobody had ever heard me because I’d never put up a fight. But those days were done.
“Baker?”
My heart twisted with the reverent way he spoke my name, but I pushed my anger toward the surface. “No. Go use your sexy words on somebody else. Maybe the woman from last night wants to hear them again.”
