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Nausea ebbs and flows in the pit of my stomach for a hot minute as he presses a kiss to the back of her hand. Elodie’s face lights up with a bright smile as her cheeks flush prettily, and before I know what I’m doing, I rise from my seat. “Thanks for coming, guys, but the night staff are setting up in a couple of minutes. Umm…”
As I trail off, Matt’s brow furrows in blatant concern, and he begins to speak, but I cut him off, needing to escapenow. “Thank you guys for coming today. I—I’ll text you later.”
I smile at each of my friends before ducking out behind Vaughn and moving swiftly toward the staff quarters. Needing to be as far from him and his panty-melting smile as possible.
Needing the sanctuary of my own space to deduce why his smiling for Elodie unsettled me so fucking much.
Sure, I can acknowledge that the man is as handsome as sin—and he damn well knows it too—but it’s more than that. If I’m being entirely honest with myself, I’m pissed that I’ve not been on the receiving end of a smile like that.
And accepting that truth makes me mad enough to scream.
I’m so lost in my musings that I don’t hear him behind me until I reach the corridor to the elevator, when his long strides catch up with my vastly shorter ones. “What’s the rush, little bird? Cat got your tongue?”
I speed up, turning out of the staff quarters and toward the elevator that will give me blissful solitude, but even without looking around, I can feel his dominating presence at my back.
“Nope. I just lost track of time.” I slam my hand down on the scanner, angling my face up to hold his gaze. He plants his palm on the elevator door, effectively caging me in as his unreadable charcoal eyes shine with laughter.
In fact, his whole face seems lighter than I’ve seen in my time here.
“Good thing I was here to remind you then.”
I tilt my head to one side, my next words slipping out between my lips before my mind has processed them. “Why were you so nice to Elodie? You’re usually an asshole.”
To me.
The elevator doors open, and he straightens as I step on, only for him to follow me.
I watch as the door closes behind him, bristling as he steps nearer until the tips of his toes are touching mine.
“Jealous,are we?” His devilish half-smile is both utterly divine and absolutely nauseating.
I jut out my chin before tipping my head back to look up at his devilishly handsome face. “I couldn’t care less about you. My friend’s well-being is my only concern.”
The words echo between us, sounding hollow even to my own ears, but I hold his gaze, refusing to back down.
My whole body freezes as he slowly leans closer and closer until I’m entirely enveloped in his familiar, deliciously sensual scent. My eyes flicker closed as I feel his breath on the shell of my ear before he moves his mouth to speak.
“I’m only nice to women I want tofuck, little bird.”
Such naughty words spoken in that deep, husky tone of his, and I can see how the man must never be short of a bed mate or two. As it is, my own nipples tighten into pebbles beneath the material of my bra as my insides surge with desire.
“But don’t worry, Wren. She’ll get the same asshole you do as soon as I’ve taken what I want.”
My breath catches as he stands tall. I can feel my pupils are blown as his eyes hold mine for long moments until the doors open, and I squeeze out past him.
I twist about when he stays in the car, having had a second to adjust myself mentally. “Stay away from my friends, Cactus.”
“What can I say…” He shrugs as his lips lift in a fiendish grin, displaying his perfect white teeth and those dimples. The ones from my memory.
The ones I’ve not seen since arriving at Rogue, not even for Elodie earlier, and I melt ever so slightly.
Christ, he’s beautiful.
He remains silent as the doors close. His eyes are fixed on mine until just as he disappears from sight, he quips with a naughty as fuck wink, “I like a little sugar between my sheets.”
The tension in my body begins to dissipate in his absence, and by the time I’ve reached my room, I’m actually grinning at our little exchange.
“He really thinks he’s the shit.”
