Total pages in book: 49
Estimated words: 46095 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 230(@200wpm)___ 184(@250wpm)___ 154(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 46095 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 230(@200wpm)___ 184(@250wpm)___ 154(@300wpm)
Kenzie and I had been quiet in the backseat of Max’s Land Rover as they drove her home first.
“Call me,” she’d mouthed as she got out of the car.
And now we were back at the house, just the three of us. I didn’t know where he was, but Garret’s car was gone from the driveway.
“The fuck were you thinking, Cora?” Nolan growled, his face livid and his muscles bunched and straining as he stepped towards me.
“You’re not the boss of me,” I spat back.
Sass. I guess that was my go-to response, to sass him back. I wasn’t even that angry, it was just the swirling mess of emotions and feelings roaring through my head came out like that I guess.
“The fuck I’m not,” he shot back, his eyes narrowing as he stepped right into me, looking down into my eyes. “You’re in my house, Cora. Do you know how much shit I’m risking with that?”
“Yeah?” I hissed. “Well no one asked you to!”
He glanced back at a stern-faced Max before he turned back and narrowed his eyes at me. “Are you drunk?”
“Fuck you.”
Nolan bristled, this crackling energy almost radiating out of him.
“Do not push me, Cora,” he grated out.
“Oh please,” I sneered right back, all the confusing emotions, and the adrenaline from what had happened earlier, and the blazing thoughts of how the man in front of me had rocked my world the other night rushing out at once. “You’re not my dad, you know.”
“Yeah? Well maybe you fuckin’ need a daddy!” he roared back.
“Oh like you?” I smiled sweetly at him, my whole body trembling with energy and my skin prickling as I looked him right in the eye. “You wanna be my daddy, is that it?”
God, I didn’t know where all the piss and vinegar was coming from, but I couldn’t stop it.
“You need to settle the fuck down, Cora,” Max growled, cutting in.
“And you need to stay out of my social life!”
Max’s brow furrowed and his jaw tightened. “Fucking social life? That what you call those two fuck-heads trying to drag you upstairs?”
“I’m a big girl, I can take care of myself,” I spat at him.
“No, you’re temptation on a fucking stick is what you are,” he muttered. My skin tingled at his words, my pulse skipping a beat as our eyes locked.
“How did you even know where I was?”
“You weren’t here, and Nolan heard about that party. We took a drive by and got lucky.”
“Lucky? Messing with my life is lucky?”
“Oh, real nice,” Max spat back. “So stopping you from getting assaulted is messing with you, huh?”
“What were you, jealous, Max?” I hissed, the full brat-mode coming out before I could even begin to rein it in.
Max’s jaw tightened, but he kept it shut.
“That it? You jealous of some frat boy getting to put his hands on me?”
“That’s enough, Cora,” Nolan growled.
Max narrowed his eyes at me. “I don’t need to explain myself to you, you ungrateful—”
“Just because you put your hands on me, doesn’t mean you can—”
My lips snapped shut, my brows going high as I clamped a hand over my mouth. Too late, though. The words were out there.
Oh shit.
Nolan whirled on Max, his eyes blazing as his jaw trembled.
“You fucking did what to her?!” he roared, his teeth flashing. But Max didn’t flinch, and didn’t back down at all.
“It was an accident.”
Nolan barked out a brittle laugh. “Did you trip?”
“Fuck you,” Max growled. “How’s the view from that ivory tower, asshole?”
I watched the two gorgeous, big, dominant men face off — in a sense fighting over me — and felt a shiver of heat tease through my body. I’d never felt this before, and I’d definitely never had two men arguing about me like that.
…And it was way hot, if we’re being honest.
“The fuck do you care what happened? She’s an adult, Nolan, and she’s not my student.”
Nolan’s jaw clenched tight, his eyes blazing.
“Oh, right, that’s right, you already slept with her.”
Nolan’s eyes darted to me, and I shrunk away.
“So, you want to pretend I’m the bad guy here? At least I’m not fucking my students, dick!”
Nolan snapped, grabbing Max by the collar and shoving him back. Max growled, yanking Nolan’s hands off of him and jabbing a finger at his chest.
“You better watch yourself, you self-righteous—”
“I’m out of here.”
The whole “two guys fighting over me” thing was turning quickly from sexy to full out fight, and I knew that was my cue to leave. Two guys pushing egos around when it came to me was one thing. Two best friends actually fighting over me was another. I turned to head upstairs, when Nolan’s firm voice stopped me in my tracks.
“Oh, I’m not done with you.”
I shivered, heat pulsing through me and teasing between my legs. I took a shaky breath before turning around and facing them.