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“Not the point,” I argue.
“Exactly the fucking point. When are you going to admit that you want her?”
Gritting my teeth, I throw a handful of chopped onion into the pan beside me, letting the crack and pop of the oil fill the silence I’m not willing to do with words.
“I saw the way you kissed her before,” he continues. “It was like you thought you might die without it.”
“Moment of weakness after the intel she gave us.”
“Oh sure, you wanted her wrapped around you like a snake because of the intel.”
“Things got intense,” I mutter, waving my bandaged hand at him.
“I guess she did that for you,” he correctly assumes.
“Maybe I did it myself.”
He laughs, his eyes glinting with amusement. If I weren’t so happy to see it, I’d want to throw a knife at him to shut him up.
“I bet you gave yourself that boner while you were at it too, huh?”
“You’re a prick.”
Turning my back on him, I focus on the pan before me as he grabs us beers and knocks the tops off.
“Yep, you love me, though.”
“Debatable.”
“Can you at least tell me you’re regretting it,” he says, jumping up onto the counter, watching me as I add spices to my pan, letting the scent flood my nostrils.
“Regret what?” I ask absently.
“Not letting her wrap her lips around your dick and suck you dr—”
A throat clearing in the doorway cuts off JD’s words. But while he might falter at our visitor, my movements don’t. I refuse to let that asshole see even an inch of weakness.
“Hey, man. How are you feeling?” JD, the fucking traitor, asks, his voice a little higher than a few seconds ago. “You want a beer? Dinner won’t be long. Reid’s an epic cook, did you know that?”
Silence.
Well, this is just fucking great.
25
MAVERICK
The bath should be relaxing. I’ve been fucking dying for one for days. Desperate for the warmth, the lightness that comes with floating in the massive tub we have in the master bathroom at home.
But nothing about this bath is what I was hoping for.
With my head resting back against the side, I keep my eyes closed as all the awful things I said to Alana cycle through my mind. Each one dripping poison through my veins.
I shouldn’t have said them. But I couldn’t stop myself.
Seeing her with them. Knowing what she’s been doing. Seeing the evidence ofhistouch on her body. All of that mixed with days of solitude in that freezing cell has fucked with my head.
But having her in my arms again, her scent in my nose, even if it was laced with them. Fuck. It was so fucking good.
