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I pull up in front of her little house and eye it critically, surprised that she lives here. It’s not the best part of town and the house is tiny, barely a thousand feet on two floors.
“This you?” I ask.
“Yep,” she snips. And then she tries to slip out of the seatbelt. I put my hand over hers and still it, feeling a tingle start where our fingers are touching and then zip up my arm. I pull back immediately, clearing my throat.
“Just wait there.”
She nods and looks away. But I can see the flush on her pale cheeks and the way her full chest is rising and falling so quickly. She is turned on.
Considering how close I am to just ripping her clothes off, I need to get my head cleared right now before something happens that neither of us have planned for.
I step around the car and lean down to jerk her off the front seat. She squeaks and her hand wraps around my shoulder instinctively. I eye her and it’s like I can’t look away. Her full, pink lips and the sensual heat in her soft green eyes. The fire that burns in her like a bonfire, heating me up from the inside out.
I can almost feel the crackling flames when she moans. But then I remember she’s still hurt. I heft her higher and shut the door. Then I stalk up the path and nod at her.
“Can you get the key or should I put you down and do it?”
She shakes her head and refuses to meet my eyes. “No, I can do it.”
I nod and wait while she fiddles with the lock. Then I push it open when she gets it inserted.
I step inside, looking around curiously. I want to know everything there is to know about her, my obsession growing with every second.
Her home is an eclectic mix of beachy rattan and turquoise and clean soft beige. And then in the middle a bright splash of red or orange. It shouldn’t make sense but somehow it does. It feels like her. Wild and untamed. No rules. But somehow it all works.
“You can put me down now,” she whispers and I set her down lightly, loathe to let her curves out of my arms.
She wanders away quickly. “Do you want anything before you go?” she asks, sidling away.
“I’m not going anywhere.”
Her head whips around, the golden-brown curls flying, her green eyes startled, lips dropping open. “What the hell does that mean?”
“It means that for now, I’m your roomie. Actually, I’m your loving fiancé come to take care of you while you’re under the weather.” My lips quirk up when she huffs out a startled, “hell no!”
“Hell yeah! It’s the only way I can make sure that nobody gets inside with you. I have to be inside with you.”
“Surely there must be another way.”
“Nope!”
I could probably come up with something else if I had to. But I don’t want to. I want to see what she does, how she lives. I want to know what kind of creamer she uses in her coffee. I want to know what she looks like when she stumbles out of bed in the morning. I want to know it all.
“I need to think about this,” she says, her face a picture of distress.
“I’ll just be down here getting some security stuff wired up. Don’t want to have any surprises.”
She stumbles up the stairs and disappears from sight and I immediately want to run up the stairs and insist that she stay right by me. That she never leaves me.
And it scares me almost as much as it terrifies her. What a fucking pair we are!
I start working on the security system, focusing on it instead of the woman upstairs. The one that I can’t stop thinking about, listening for and craving like a damn drug.
CHAPTER5
Azalea
Istumble into my room and sit, shocked, on the edge of my bed, hugging a pillow in front of me. What the hell just happened? I never agreed to a fiancé but all the sudden I have a big, hulking, bad-tempered one that makes my rooms shrink until all I can feel is him.
