AllFreeNovel
Share Us
Trinny stared at him. “Really? You didn’t notice that she and I both have hazel eyes?”
“Lots of people have hazel eyes, and I don’t spend time looking at my brothers’ love interests.”
“Hmm.”
“What’s ‘hmm’ mean?”
“She told me that Judd washerbodyguard too.”
“That was different from our situation.”
She tilted her head. “How?”
“They hooked up on the job. You and I hooked upbefore.”
“Ahh, I see now.”
“You see that rules are meant to be bent? You’re right. That’s how I operate, doll.”
Holding his stare, she raised the burger and took a hefty bite.
“I sense a challenge,” he rumbled.
“Do you?” she asked around the food in her mouth.
Damn, she was cute as hell. He wanted to pitch his burger over the railing and toss her on the deck. Wrap those long legs around his waist and pop those straining buttons of her top.
Heat charged the air.
She leaned closer to hiss, “Stop looking at me that way.”
He cocked a brow. “What way?”
She whispered, “Like you wish I was that burger in your hand!”
Nonchalantly, he cast a glance over his shoulder at the rest of his team not far off. Ross’s stare drilled into him. If Jaren didn’t dispel the tension fast, his boss and everybody else would pick up on just how many rules he was “bending” with Trinny.
He pitched his voice low and shrugged. “Well, I’d like to get between your buns.”
She let out a gasp that had him shaking with laughter at her outrage. Then a small laugh bubbled past her lips too.
Throwing another look over his shoulder, he saw that Ross had returned to his conversation and was no longer focused on him.
Plus there was the added benefit of seeing Trinny relax and have a good time. Some of the strain around her lips even smoothed for a second, leaving him feeling as if he’d fought a hard-won battle.
“So what do you think of all this?” he asked her after a moment.
“Well…there are a lot of names. Like a big web.” A pink flush jumped into her cheeks.
“Aww, you don’t need to worry about remembering them all.”
She gave him a look that made him question what was really going on in her mind.
Clearing her throat, she changed the topic. “Why didn’t you just take me home with you instead of coming to this place?”
“Too visible.”
“I can’t just sit here for days.”
