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Nico sighed. “Lottie, do you remember the first time we met you?”
She frowned. “At that awful dinner Michael’s mother organized?”
“Yeah. It was terrible, right?” Nico said.
“She invited that other woman who flirted with Michael all night. It was obvious that she didn’t want Michael with me. She wanted that other woman to lure him away from me.”
Liam snorted. He’d moved to lean against the wall. He thought some distance might be a good idea. Give her some space to breathe. Also, if he got too close to her, he was worried he’d just throw her over his shoulder and storm away with her.
Still so fucking tempting.
“Stupid cow,” Nico said. “You had more smarts, beauty and breeding than that other girl.”
“Michael and his mother didn’t seem to think so,” she said. “But yeah, I totally do.”
Liam raised an eyebrow at that show of self-confidence. That was the Lottie he remembered from that night. She’d known who she was. A fucking princess.
His step-mother was a dumb bitch. She hadn’t even looked into Lottie. If she had, she’d have discovered that Lottie came from a lot of money and a well-known family. But she’d decided that because Lottie wasn’t from New York, she didn’t count as anyone she’d want her precious Michael to touch.
And that fucking idiot, Michael had ignored Lottie all night to flirt back with that other girl, whom Liam couldn’t even picture. She’d been nothing next to Lottie.
“I told them I needed the bathroom,” Lottie said. “I was thinking about leaving and you came up to me and said you had a better idea.” She smiled up at Nico. “We snuck into the kitchen, and you found every tub of ice cream they had, and we had an ice cream party.”
“Best one I’ve ever had. Whipped cream, maraschino cherries, and the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen in my life.”
She blushed at Nico’s words. “Then Liam came in. I thought he was going to tell us off.”
“Tell you off? Why would I do that?” he asked.
“For leaving you alone in the viper’s nest?” she asked.
“True. That was naughty of you both. Do that again, and I’ll have to punish you both.”
“Punish us?” Her eyes were wide. Fear? He couldn’t have that.
“Hmm, I think a fair punishment would have been for me to have all the maraschino cherries.”
“Hey!” she protested. “Hands off my cherries.”
Fuck.
That sounded so dirty.
He needed help. Here she was, hurt and in need of care and all he could think of was getting her naked and sucking on her nipples. What would they look like? What noises would she make?
Nico cleared his throat and Liam turned to the other man, then Nico flicked his gaze down to Liam’s crotch.
Not the right time to get a hard-on.
He should probably feel a little bad for sending Nico down here with an erection.
Should. But he didn’t.
“That night, I thought you were the most beautiful girl I’d ever seen,” Nico told her. “My stomach was tied up in knots. I could barely talk to you.”
“But why?”
“You didn’t feel anything like that toward me?” Nico asked, pushing her hair back behind her ear.
