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“Yeah, okay, Ma. I love you. I’ll see you Sunday.”
My mom gets through half of her “Goodbye, love you” before ending the call. I set the phone back on my charger and smile at it for a moment. When I turn back to finish going through emails, though, Laney’s palm flattens my laptop screen. Her headphones are hugging her neck.
“Uh, can I help you?” I grimace as I set my computer to the side.
“What was that?” She points toward my phone.
“What was what? My conversation with my mom? You really seem to have it out for her, don’t you?” I chuckle but Laney swats at my bicep and stops me. She sits up and snaps in my face, and I think for a brief second how pleased my mom would be with all this.
“No, uh uh. I mean what was that about the Spoilers? Why didn’t you say anything?” Her brow is low, and I honestly think she’s upset that I didn’t tell her.
“Uh, well . . .” I stammer for a moment, thrown by her reaction. “It’s like I told my mom. Some guys from the Spoilers came by to meet me. They’ll be around. I mean, I’m sure I’m not the only one they’re looking at, but?—”
“No, don’t do that. Coach introduced you to them. I know how this stuff works, Cutter. Don’t bullshit me. This is a big deal.”
I can’t tell if she’s excited for me or angry. She’s intense.
“Okay, yeah. It’s good news. For sure! I didn’t want to make you feel bad with my good news when you had a crappy day, so I put it on the backburner. But also, hey . . . how did you hear that through your music?” I reach toward her to snag her headphones but she backs away, sitting back on her heels. “Were you even listening to anything?”
She chews at her bottom lip and her eyes haze. I think she’s trying to decide whether or not to lie to me right now.
“Laney?”
“What? Okay, fine. I wasn’t listening to anything. I simply wanted you to leave me alone,” she says, pulling her headphones from her neck and tossing them onto her night table.
“Wow, I mean. You could have just asked me for some space.” I’m oddly a little hurt.
Laney’s gaze hits mine and stalls. There’s an obvious tension there, one we both put there with our antics today. I’m still not sure if it was a good idea or not.
“Why didn’t you kiss me?”
I’m pretty sure I’m doing a poor job of masking my shock. This is not the route I thought this conversation was going. But now that she’s gone there . . .
“Do youwantme to kiss you, Laney?”
“Why do you say my name? Don’t do that. It’s . . . it’s . . .”
“Laney, Laney, Laney.” I’m a child.
“Cutter, Cutter, Cutter,” she mocks back.
I laugh hard, and it cracks her armor and she finally breaks into an embarrassed titter of her own.
“Stop it,” she says, shoving my bicep again. I’m fast enough to grab her wrist, and she stops hard once she’s in my hand, her gaze zipping to mine with that fiery intensity that has always made her so fucking hot.
I drag her to my lap, and her legs straddle me. I take her other wrist in my hand and hold them both up between us whileI force her to maintain eye contact. Her lips are trembling, and all I want to do is bite the top one and hold onto it. The way it curves up just a touch like it’s volunteering for me. Jesus.
“Do you want me to kiss you, Laney Price?” I let the softsat the end of her name hiss as my tongue flirts with the edge of my teeth, and Laney’s lips part with a tiny gasp. I tug her forward and bring her arms around my neck then grab her ass and pull her into me to soothe the ache in my pants. There is no way she doesn’t feel how hard I am against her.
“I don’tnotwant you to kiss me,” she teases. She’s being coy, and it’s infuriating, but it’s also turning me on.
Itskand shake my head, leaning into her until my nose kisses the tip of hers.
“Come on, Laney. You’re a confident woman. I’m no stranger to you saying what you think and asking for what you want. If you want to be kissed, all you have to do is ask. But this doesn’t count, just so you know.”
Her bottom lip juts out and her brow draws in.
“Excuse me? Why wouldn’t it count?” Her hips rock slightly and the feel of her on my cock makes it pulse. Fucking hell.
