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“Oh, you’re not going to know about that!”
“Oh, yeah? Perhaps I should take you back down to Donovan’s for a couple more pitchers of Smithwick’s.”
Allie narrows her eyes at me. “Low blow, Nick Montgomery. Low blow. I’ll have you know I’m a hard-working professional. I have a right to blow off some steam a little bit here and there. I wasn’t hurting anyone, and you were driving. I was completely responsible.”
“Only because I was driving and wouldn’t have let you anywhere near the club or the wheel.”
“I wouldn’t have done either.”
I narrow my eyes at the lovely little minx who dares to test me with a recently peppered ass. “It doesn’t count as a lie if you don’t remember, but you wanted to drive.”
“What? No.” Allie shakes her head, then squints her eyes at me. “Are you serious right now, Nick?”
Allie’s not going to like the answer, but she needs to know. “I’m telling you the truth. You wanted the keys and to drive because you thought I was intoxicated.”
Allie frowns. “That doesn’t make any sense. You weren’t drinking. Were you?”
“Just water and coffee.”
Allie throws her hand to her forehead, then pulls her knees up to her chest and lays her face on them. “I can barely believe I would do such a thing. I would never knowingly get behind the wheel of a car in an intoxicated state. Do you know how many people I’ve cared for in the ER that didn’t make it themselves or killed a stranger because they got behind the wheel of a car?”
I pull her into my arms, and she lets me cradle her. The warmth of her breath brushes against my chest as I push back the hair that’s fallen across her face and wipe a trailing tear. “The responsible part was not going alone, and doing what you wanted to let off steam in a safe environment and with people you knew would take care of you. No one at that table would have allowed you to get behind a wheel. As a nurse, you know it’s the alcohol that can cause inhibitions and common sense to fly out the window. That’s why a two-drink rule at the club, and that’s why you don’t ever go out alone, without your friends, or me.”
“I do always go with friends. It’s just a surprise that I could put myself in that position so easily. But you’re right. I won’t go out planning to blow off steam without friends.”
“And me, at least until all this blows over.”
“Fine,” Allie huffs, but a quick look at me causes her to tone her attitude and change the subject. “Did you learn anything more about the men coming this way? This needs to get dealt with fast so we can move on with our lives.”
I smile at her careful avoidance of putting herself into another particular position. “I learned a lot while you were asleep. You feel up to going over it all?”
“How about if I go for a run and get a hot shower first? Then we can go grocery shopping, and have something amazing for dinner since we had such a late breakfast? I need to do all of that to get ready for work tomorrow anyway.”
“Back to the gym?”
She picks up her phone from the coffee table and turns it over, thumbing through her screen. “The temps are good. I’m going to run outside, but you can go back to the gym if you want. I’ll text Trent or Liam to go with me. I think they like to get their workout in outside too.”
My jaw tightens. “There’s no need to text the guys. I’ll go with you.”
Her eyebrows raise. “You run too? I didn’t realize.”
“Uh, huh.” I lift her from me and stand. Her blanket slips to the floor, and she’s left standing in her sweater from the night before, which barely covers her mound, displaying the sexy gap between her thighs. She bends quickly to pick it up, exposing her ass.
She straightens quickly, wrapping the blanket around her.
I pull her to me. “If you were mine, you’d ask before covering your body. And I’d probably say no. Instead, I’d take you to the shower and clean you with my tongue until you were screaming my name.”
Her eyes glaze over with desire, and her body trembles in my arms, causing my cock to throb with a need suppressed for far too long, but she spins away from me and starts walking quickly toward her bedroom.
“Allie?”
Chapter Twelve
Allie
I ignore my name,close the bedroom door, and lean against it. This cannot be happening to me. And this headache from hell just won’t go away. I need to drink a gallon of water and sweat out this alcohol. I don some running attire, and sit on my bed to put my socks and shoes on, and will my heartbeat to calm the hell down. I’ve done everything possible to avoid any kind of relationship since Kevin, and it’s worked. And now this.
No relationships equal no heartbreak. No pining away after someone once they find someone new, because I am not about to become my mother all over again. The sweet little woman who gives her heart and soul to a man who walks out on her and a small little girl for a brand-new blonde piece of ass? No, that’s not about to happen to me. I’m not trying that rodeo again. Especially with a smooth-talking player who has a woman ogling him from the time he walks in the door at the hospital until he leaves.
