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“Fucked up last night,” he whispered.
“What?” I whispered back, surprised at his words, and, let’s face it, more than a little affected by his nearness.
“Baby, those panties?”
My inner thighs quivered at his tone.
“Damn,” he half-whispered, half-groaned.
Something else quivered.
Cataclysmically.
In fact, I was relatively certain right there in the staff room, standing up and fully dressed, I had my first Javi-induced orgasm.
“Shoulda let you succeed in attacking me,” he concluded.
“Shut up, Javi.”
He grinned. It was another new one. Roguish and sultry.
Thus, my whole body quivered.
“Bro,” Jacob called from the door.
Javi looked over his shoulder then came back to me. “I’ll be waiting outside at seven.”
“Will you tell me what you learn from Kevin?” I requested hopefully.
He smiled at me like I was cute, bent closer to press his lips hard to mine, then he turned and was gone.
Raye and Luna huffed back in, and we all huddled around Willow.
“You okay?” Shanti asked her.
Willow was looking at no one while addressing everyone. “How could I be so stupid as to waste so much?—?”
“Nunh-unh, nope,” Luna cut her off. “Sometimes our hearts lead us astray. We don’t kick ourselves in the asses for it. We just learn from it and move on.”
“Even I have to admit he’s a serious charmer when he wants to be,” Shanti said.
“Yeah,” I put in. “I knew I was messaging a skeeve, but some of the stuff he said while we were doing that, if I didn’t know what kind of guy he was, I’d totally fall for it.”
Willow latched on to that. “Really?”
I nodded fervently. “Totally.”
Willow seemed relieved.
“Let me guess, the boys confiscated our only lead,” Jessie deduced.
“They had him zip-tied and shoved in the back of a Denali before we could say boo,” Luna confirmed.
I wished I’d seen that.
Even so.
“Excuse me, I am so sorry,” I snapped. “But none of them took him down from a table dive.”