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Chapter Thirteen

Levi

Even though I was kind of worried about how Tamsin’s friends would act around me, her best friend put my mind at ease right away.

“You’re the guy helping Tamsin get her revenge on that dickless little shit?” I nod, smiling at how frank she is. “Thank you. I’m glad she knew exactly who to turn to…but if you break her heart, I’ll cut yours out.”

“Why is Zane still walking around being a dick then?”

“Because she didn’t really…,” she stops and looks over at where Tamsin and Max are talking. “She didn’t like him like I can see her liking you. Don’t make me regret ever meeting you.”

I step closer to Sophie but not as close as I would if she were Tamsin, “Sophie, I’m not about to let something hurt that woman.”

She gives me a genuine smile and turns back around to the two waiting on us. “We got the tickets.”

She waves them in the air and runs to wrap herself around Max. He’s a pretty chill guy. And I don’t feel like I have to cut his eyes out because he looks too long at my kitten. In fact, the way he looks at Sophie I expect the two of them to wind up knocked up in a month or two. I also see how Tamsin looks at the two of them. There’s happiness of course, but also a little bit of sadness and a hint of envy. She wants to be loved like Sophie is loved by Max. She wants a relationship she can just fall into and give her all to, no worries if the other person is in it with you because you are confident they are.

Something primal takes over and I need to remove that look from her eyes quickly. Lucky for me I have the perfect way to do it too.

I wrap my arms around her and turn her to face me and not them, “You ready?”

I wait for her to nod before taking her mouth in a hard kiss. By the time I’ve let her up for air, her hands have wrapped themselves in my t-shirt and Max and Sophie are standing right beside us.

“Thank God. For a minute there I thought me and Max were going to have to rent you all a room.”

A soft blush hits Tamsin’s cheeks. Before I let her go, I take another kiss. I have to turn her towards the entrance when I’m done because she tries to go the other way and stumbles a little. It makes my mouth curve up and my walk a little cockier than it was before.

I spend most of the afternoon watching Tamsin laughing and playing with her friend. We do putt-putt golf first, then stop to grab some snacks before we hit up an arcade. By the time we leave, night has fallen and the whole place is lit up with neon lights. She’s rocking a big smile that reaches her eyes and makes them dance as she takes me by the hand to pull me to the next thing she wants to try or do.

By the time she’s had her third funnel cake, I’m starting to worry this is how my girl eats every day. Candy, cookies, sugar on top of more sugar, and some kind of fruity drink that I’m pretty sure is ninety percent syrup. Me and Max look over at one another and order the girls something with actual food in it. Still probably not good for you but at least it won’t blow your heart out of your body with the sugar high you get afterwards.

I pull her down in my lap and watch her do the sexiest thing I can imagine doing with clothes on…eating a corndog. I can’t fucking pull my eyes away from her mouth and as soon as she’s finished my mouth is on hers.

“Tamsin?”

Instead of jerking away, I hold her for just a moment longer before I end the kiss. The look in her eyes tells me she never even heard her name.

“Tamsin, is that you?”

This time she hears and stiffens in my arms. Both of us turn our heads to find Zane standing with the little shit that betrayed my girl right beside him. God, if I could take a picture of that face, especially the moment he notices whose lap she is sitting in.

“What the hell are you doing with HIM?”

I have a front-row seat for the change that comes over my kitten. Her eyes narrow and her chin comes up like she is looking down at something she would scrap off her shoe, the coldness leaking out of those beautiful green orbs could freeze a man to death.

“Any damn thing he wants me to.” She turns to give me a hell of a grin as her eyes go from frigid to melting.

The bastard’s mouth literally falls open. You could park a fucking truck right into the space.

“What the hell is this?” He’s on the verge of shouting but my girl doesn’t shrink back as she turns cold eyes to him.

“Wait, what do you mean ‘what the hell is this’? Why should it matter to you?” Ah, the bed-hopping ex-friend finally says something.

“This,” I wave my hand up and down in his direction, “looks like regret. Thank God you’re fucking stupid or not man enough to hold on to a woman like my kitten.”

His face goes from pale to red with outrage as Tamsin makes it worse. “Levi, we would have found each other no matter what.”

“Wait, this is your new boyfriend you were getting dinner for the other week?”

My girl nods with a self-satisfied smile curling her lips up. “I had to get my man fuel for all the extra activities I was going to put him through.”

“Seems like she found someone who can fill up her…nights, finally.” Sophie has both our backs.

“Tamsin doesn’t move that fast, buddy. So don’t even try to make us believe something happened between the two of you like that.”

“Maybe, but the towel she was prancing around the bedroom in says otherwise, Zit…Zane.”

Max, Sophie, and Tamsin laugh at my nickname for Zane since the day we met and I found out he was a little bullying shit.

“You already slept with him?”

“Now, Zi..Z,” she cuts herself off before committing to my nickname.

“Good save, baby.”

She giggles before focusing back on the asshole in front of us.

“A lady never tells, and she certainly doesn’t show what belongs to only her man.”

A well-placed dig at the ex-friend.

“You know how to keep Daddy happy, don’t you kitten.”

She nods before leaning down and taking my bottom lip between her teeth in the sexiest fucking kiss I have ever been privileged to. Eyes open and staring into mine. I swat her ass when she leans back to study my reaction, to make sure I’m okay with this. Fuck yes, I’m alright with it. I’m more than alright, I’m fucking rock hard and I show her as I take her hip and move against her so she can feel just how alright I am.

She giggles and stares down at me with a look of amazement in her eyes as I cup her cheek and pull her down so I can whisper to her. “I told you, you were sexy as hell, baby.”

“Hello.” God, did he always have such a whiny voice?

This time she does jump as she turns her eyes back to the little zit. “Sorry, I forgot you were there.”

“And the death blow has been dealt, people. Ooh, that must hurt like a sunburn over sand.”

He turns and stomps off leaving the traitor behind until she realizes he’s gone. Then she turns and runs after him.

We dissolve into cackles and laughs.

Sophie takes both of us in before dropping the thought that eats at me for the rest of the night, “You guys are good. You sure you’re not…more?”