Total pages in book: 121
Estimated words: 118693 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 593(@200wpm)___ 475(@250wpm)___ 396(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 118693 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 593(@200wpm)___ 475(@250wpm)___ 396(@300wpm)
I smiled, for about a second. “You don’t think he would…do you?”
Flash didn’t seem to like Colton’s constant moving around. He jumped off him and headed into his crate to lay down. “What, kill you? No, but I think he would find some reason to get rid of you…from the department.”
“No.”
“Hell yeah he would. I mean look, he gave you that crazy-ass dog to keep for no reason other than to torture you. And that’s only because he thinks you’re a player.”
Flash barked, causing both of us to look his way. “Sorry, Flash,” Colton said before finishing off his beer and setting it on the coffee table. “Let me ask you something, Ward. When was the last time you got laid?”
I shrugged. “Shit, I don’t know. Before my birthday, so a few weeks.”
Colton gave me a smug look. “And when did Rory Adams come into the picture?”
“You’re fucking crazy if you think I’m not getting laid because I’m waiting for Rory.”
Leaning forward, Colton rested his arms on his legs. “Have you had the chance to hook up with anyone since you met Rory?”
“Yes,” I answered too quickly.
“And?”
“And what?”
“Why haven’t you?”
My hand pushed through my hair. I instantly knew the reason why.
Rory.
Colton stood up. “Come on. We’re going out.”
With a groan, I shook my head. “No. I’m not in the mood to go out.”
“We’re going to test my theory.”
Standing, I grabbed Flash’s leash. “Oh, Christ. This is not going to turn out well.”
He slapped my back and laughed. “Boys’ night out.”
I put Flash’s collar on and headed to the front door. “Let me take Flash out really quick.”
The second I stepped out of the elevator I grabbed my phone. Pulling up Rory’s number, I smiled. I had gotten her cell number when she’d left her phone sitting on my counter.
“Hello?”
“Evening, beautiful.”
“Um, Finn?”
My heart jumped when she recognized my voice.
“Yep.”
“H-how did you get my number?”
With a lighthearted laugh, I replied, “Wasn’t hard, considering you left your phone sitting right there on my counter.”
With a nervous chuckle, she said, “Oh. I guess that makes sense. Is everything okay?”
“Tell me you’ll have dinner with me tonight.”
“It’s eight-thirty.”
“So? You’ve never eaten dinner late?”
“No. Well I mean, I have. It’s just I can’t. I’m sorry.”
“You got plans with someone else?”
The silence on the other end of the phone bothered the hell out of me.
“Rory?”
“I’m here. No. I don’t have plans with anyone else.”
“Then it’s a date. What time should I pick you up?”
She sighed. “Finn, listen, I’m in the middle of this case and Russell and I will be working long hours and I really can’t afford a distraction right now.”
“A distraction? So that’s what I am?”
“Yes. No, wait. That’s not what I mean exactly. You are, but, well I can’t really talk right now. Russell is waiting on me to get back in the conference room.”
Until this very moment, my heart had never actually felt as if it had been torn in half. “You’re with Russell…working this late, huh?”
“I was about to head out, so maybe we can talk later.”
Closing my eyes, I nodded. “Yeah. Sure.”
Flash barked, and I glanced down at him. “See ya around, Rory.” Hitting End, I let out a frustrated breath.
Fuck it. No woman is worth this shit.
Finn
Time to move on
The second Colton and I walked into the club, women were all over us. We drank, danced, drank some more, and I was pretty sure that at one point, Colton got a girl off while we all sat at the table we were at now.
“Finn Ward! What a small world.”
Glancing up, I tried to focus my half-drunk eyes on the woman standing in front of me. “Do I know you?” I asked.
She laughed. “Julie? I caught your dog Flash in the park earlier today.”
My mouth fell open and I pointed to her. “Julie! Dog-saving Julie. How the hell are you?” I called out.
“I’m good. What about you?”
Grinning just enough to flash her my famous smile, I replied, “I’m doing great, now that you’re here.”
She looked around. “Where’s your girlfriend?”
I jerked my head back, almost a little too fast. “Girlfriend?” Then I remembered my lie. “Oh he…yeah…I’m too much of a distraction for her. She doesn’t want to date me. I’m not good enough like her lawyer friend, Russell.”
Julie licked her lips and the next thing I knew, she was straddling me. “Well, her loss is my gain.”
Her mouth pressed against mine, and I was soon lost in the feel of her hands all over my body. Pushing my hands up under her shirt, she gasped when I pinched her nipple through her bra.
“Yes. Finn, take me home and do what you want with me,” she mumbled against my lips.
Pushing my hand up into her hair, I grabbed it and pulled her head back, exposing her neck to me.
“You want me to fuck you?”