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“You think I’d tell someone what you’ve told me or that I had my head between your legs?” His expression changed from calm to angry as he narrowed his eyes. She was something too, but as yet she couldn’t pinpoint exactly what that was.
“Don’t be crude,” she snapped. “Bye, Sawyer, and… and have a good life,” Birdie said. She needed to get to her room before the tears burning in her throat started to leak out her eyes.
“As I’m sure you’ll be around, I think you’ll see if that’s going to happen,” he said.
Birdie glared at him. Was he mocking her? It was hard to tell. Unlike his brothers, this Duke gave little away.
“Whatever,” she muttered. Birdie then walked away from him.
She got in the elevator, and it opened on the next floor and the couple from the last night stepped in.
“Changed your mind about the hot tub?” The man smirked.
“I don’t do threesomes,” she said, hoping she was wrong about them but wanting confirmation.
“Now that’s a shame,” the woman purred. “We’d make it good for you.”
The door opened, and Birdie stepped out, ignoring their goodbyes.
“Birdie McAllister, you need to grow up,” she muttered to herself as she headed for her room.
Stripping off her clothes, she turned on the shower and stepped under the hot spray.
What the hell had she just done? Sawyer Duke had just ruined orgasms for her for the rest of her life. Not that she had much to go on. Steve hadn’t ever sent her to the place Sawyer had. But she also had a feeling she might have left something else with the eldest Duke.
Chapter24
A week after they’d returned from Ryker Falls, Sawyer still hadn’t seen Birdie. He’d thought about her though. Remembered how she tasted when he kissed her everywhere. Could hear the sounds she’d made when he’d fucked her against that tree. Woke in the morning hard thinking about being inside her again.
“Shit!” He stood on his deck, throwing a ball into the water for his dogs. He had to get that woman out of his head.
They’d left for Lyntacky early the next morning. Birdie had been all smiling and sweet like she usually was but barely looked his way. She’d sat up front beside Ally, telling his niece she wanted her to point out things she may have missed on the flight over.
Brody had asked him what he’d done to her.
Sawyer had planned to speak to her on the drive to her house, but at some stage she’d called her parents, and they were there to meet her when they landed.
He worked really hard to not get angry these days because in his youth he’d done that when provoked, and the results were never pretty. But he’d been angry and frustrated when she’d gotten into her mother’s car and had driven away from him.
Taking a mouthful of coffee, he picked another ball out of the basket at his feet. Ted and Flo dropped the balls back on the bank, where he had to get them later. But they never brought them up here, so he kept a stock to hurl into the water.
“Sawyer!”
“Out here, Rye.”
His brother stepped onto the deck seconds later.
“What’s up?” Sawyer asked, pleased to have something to think about other than Birdie McAllister and her body.
But if he was honest, it wasn’t just that. He liked her. She was quirky and talked too much when she was nervous, which usually he hated, but on her he thought it was cute.
“Why does me visiting you have to mean something is up?” Ryder was looking at the dogs swimming out to get the ball. They bumped each other out of the way to reach it first.
“It was just a figure of speech, bro.”
Ryder exhaled.
“Okay, so now I’m asking, what’s up?”
