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Even if he did care, it didn’t mean Kade would stick. He was a man surrounded by women, all at his choosing and disposal. There was no obvious benefit to being with her, other than he could have all the milk he wanted for free without worrying about having to buy the cow first.
And Angel was going to keep telling herself she was okay with that arrangement because she wasn’t willing or ready to do anything different.
With a proper Southern accent that she sometimes used in jest when joking around with the few friends she had, Angel said, “I don’t know that I have any delicate anything, sir, but I am a nice girl, and nice girls shouldn’t be spoken to that way. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.” She gasped lightly and tipped her head back, pressing the back of her hand to her forehead as if moments away from succumbing to a fainting spell.
Kade took the opportunity to capitalize on her position and swooped down, his hot, wet mouth latching onto her throat and blazing a path with his velvet tongue up to her chin and finally her lips, his teeth grazing her skin. The unexpected kiss shot fire through Angel’s veins and not an inch of her skin was left untouched by the explosion of gooseflesh.
Southern charm had flown out the window faster than a lightning strike, and Angel wrapped herself around Kade like a decorative scarf, practically hanging off his neck as she laid one hell of a kiss back on him.
“You two outta get a room,” someone said as they passed by. “They’re twenty-five an hour at that motel down the road, if you don’t mind risking bed bugs and body lice.”
Kade and Angel lifted their heads in time to catch Wanda’s fleeting, teasing smile as she approached a three-top to take their drink order.
“Hmm, sounds kinky,” Kade said with a wink.
Angel wrinkled her nose as she reluctantly pulled free of his embrace. “Sounds dirty.”
“Just how I like it.”
She shot him an unamused look. “Not gonna happen, big guy.”
Dropping his smile, Kade hooked a hand around Angel’s hip and drew her over to a dark corner, pressing her back against the wall. But she knew from the look in his eyes that this wasn’t going to be anything sexual. Whatever he was about to tell her, it was with a seriousness that made the tiny hairs on the back of her arms stand on end.
“Look, Mouse, I gotta lotta shit I need to take care of tonight, so I might not be seeing you later. I’ll be by as soon as I can though. Don’t worry. Just sit tight until I call.”
She frowned, not liking the sound of this for a multitude of reasons, the least of which being the one that implied she was going to just sit around twiddling her thumbs like a good little housewife would—which she wasn’t.
“I don’t like the sound of this…”
“Just business, babe. Like I said, nothing to worry about.”
“Then why am I worried?”
He smirked. “Because you’re a woman. It’s what you do.”
She might have looked like she was playing around, but the fist she planted in his shoulder had the full backing of her irritation.
“Shit, Mouse, what was that for?” he complained while rubbing his arm.
“For thinking that I’m the kind of girl who sits around waiting for a man to call.”
Kade smirked, all cocksure and mocking. “Oh, I see. You think you’re the kind of girl who won’t sit around pining for her man when, in reality, that’s exactly what you’re going to be doing.”
Angel narrowed her eyes. “You’re a prick, you know.”
“I never claimed not to be, baby girl. Just speaking the truth.”
She wanted to argue with him, but the argument itself was what ensured she would, in fact, be sitting around tonight thinking about him nonstop until he called or showed up, whether out of anger or concern.
She kind of hated that, but more than anything, it worried her. She was getting in too deep, wasn’t she? And she didn’t even know where they were going with this, if anywhere.
“Get on off to work, Mouse,” Kade told her, stepping back to release her from the wall. “You’ll hear from me later.”
“Yeah, sure, whatever,” she huffed.
She caught Kade’s darkening gaze an instant before he snatched her up by the waist and yanked her against his chest to kiss the sass right out of her. When he released her, she was kiss-drunk and grinning like a fool.
“That’ll have to hold us both for a few. Stay out of trouble while I’m gone.” He turned and marched off so fast, Angel could practically see the vapor trail.
