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“Hey!” I flashed a bright smile and waved back.
“You know them?” Patrick asked in an undertone as they stumbled on.
“Nope.” I tossed my hair. “One of the perks of being a cheerleader. People recognize you around campus.”
“I thought you quit.”
“I did.” My shoulders hunched, and I knew he felt it because his arm shifted around my back.
“Why?”
“I couldn’t take getting up early for practice.” I shuddered dramatically. “It was a huge time-suck. College is for having fun.”
We’d reached Kappa Sig. Patrick guided me around the side to the back entrance. He opened the door.
“Why’d you quit really?”
“I just told you.” I went in ahead of him, breezing up the empty stairway. “So what are we doing tonight? Clothes on or off? Talking or no talking? How embarrassed should I get ready to be?”
“Christina.” His voice stopped me at the top. I swiveled to face him. In no particular hurry, his broad frame mounted the stairs. He gave me a cold smile. “I said you were fucked, and I meant it. You’re getting punished.”
My jaw dropped, and my face flamed. I opened my mouth to protest. But a wave of need crested and washed over my body. Goddammit, I wascurious.
“What are you going to do?” I forced some power into my voice
“What you deserve,” he said calmly. He crossed in front of me, took out his keys, and thrust one into the doorknob.
“Tell me now.”
He jerked his head toward his open door. I looked up and down the hall — empty. Everyone was out partying. Taking a deep breath, I walked into Patrick’s room.
As always, his bedside lamp was on, casting a dim glow over the posters of Italy, that damn nude painting, the books crowding the shelves, and the mirror that showed the truth. His bed jutted out in the middle, perfectly made.
He shut the door. I backed up against it to feel a solid wall behind me. A mistake. Looming over me, he caged me in, resting his hands on either side of my head.
“Are you going to spank me?” The quaver in the question gave my excitement away.
A smirk bent his mouth. “No. You obviously want me to. What kind of punishment is that?”
“Then what?”
“I’m going to ignore you,” he said matter-of-factly. “I won’t look at you tonight. I won’t talk to you, I won’t touch you. If I want relief, I’ll jerk off to porn. You can masturbate if you want, but I won’t pay any attention to you.”
“Are you kidding?” I gasped.
His eyes froze me. “You put on a show. You wanted attention, I’m taking it away from you.”
“No,” I blurted. I grabbed his shoulders, digging my fingers into granite. “You wouldn’t. Youcouldn’t.I’d like to see you try. You want me. I know you do. You won’t be able to ignore me when I’m naked in your room.”
“No?” That one word dropped into the pool of my protests like a rock.
“You said at the beginning that you’d find someone to do this crazy shit with you, but you’re not going to find anyone else like me. You said I was perfect,” I pushed on. “You’re not stupid, Patrick. What, you’re going to sabotage yourself? Sit there and ignore me, then stick a wad of bills in my purse? That’s how you’re going to waste your money? Is that worth it to you? A hot night all by yourself? Are you going to jerk off later to the memory of not looking at me?”
He tucked a strand of hair behind my ear.
“Try me,” he said.
As I stared at his cool, unwavering gaze, I saw the truth. If I did try him, no way would I win.
