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I grin. Of course he’d answer the beautiful woman. He ain’t a stupid guy.
“Do you want to go home with Rocco?” she coos.
I furrow my brow and stare at her for a second until she meets my curious gaze.
“What are you looking at?”
My voice drops. “Sorry, it’s just that I’ve seen you gouge out a guy’s eye with a high heel. It’s kind of a shock to see you like this, you know, and hear you talk like a human-type person.”
She narrows her eyes, but she can’t fight the smirk lifting her lips. “It’ll be our little secret, okay?”
Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!
“He must like you.” Kat straightens up. “He doesn’t usually respond to people well. Or at all, really.”
“Maybe it’s you he’s responding to.”
She shrugs, but I can see a hint of sadness in her expression. “I think he’ll be happy with you.”
Stoli 2 is suddenly alive, his tongue hanging out of his mouth as he barks for Kat’s attention. But she’s somewhere else right now, and judging from her expression, it’s not a happy place.
Yeah, I’d be sad to see her leave, too.
“Just give me a minute, and I’ll grab the key.” She backs away, dodging around Lindy where she’s playing with some mutt.
Kat turns a corner and walks down a hallway, her shoulders hunched. I don’t know why, but I race after her, leaving Lindy to monitor the animals. “Kat!” I call out. “Wait up!”
She stops short but doesn’t turn around. I tumble into her, crashing us both into a wall with her body pressed against mine. I catch a whiff of some type of perfume. It’s not some floral or fruity shit so many girls wear. It’s classy. Sexy. Dangerous.
Well, it makes me want to do dangerous things.
Dangerously sexy things.
Oh, fuck me. I have to focus on something other than her tits rubbing against me. Maybe I should back away instead of plastering myself all over her against a wall with my sister only a few feet away.
My lips hover over hers, and all I want is one taste.
Then I realize her eyes are red and a little teary.
Another bit of human emotion. I didn’t see that one coming either.
“What happened back there?” I murmur.
She shakes her head but says nothing.
Is she gonna cry? I don’t know how to react if she cries. Jesus, I never even thought the woman had blood running through her veins. I always thought it was cyanide or some shit like that.
I knew how to deal with that Kat.
This version confuses me even more.
But it makes me want her more, too.
She blinks fast, her expression shifting before my thoughts finish running their course. “Is this how you get women to submit to you? By cornering them against a wall so they can’t run away?” Her eyes take on a hard edge, and I feel a bit of relief flood over me.
The bitch is back.
I know how to deal with her.