Page 47 of Ghost

“That’s right. Window still working okay? No problems raising and lowering it?” Ghost asked.

“No problem at all.”

I gritted my teeth and stared at River while she talked with my brother and his ol’ lady. She didn’t seem to have a problem with my brother, so wasn’t I the lucky bastard she’d focused her frost on.

“You’re taking classes here?” Luna asked.

“Yes, are you thinking about joining. Mrs. Wayne is great. I’m River by the way.”

“Luna, and yeah, I’m looking to take a prenatal class if she offers one. If not, I might take a regular class and just skip the exercises that aren’t recommended for pregnant women.”

“Oh, that’s great. Not that I know anything about being pregnant, but I have read it can help with labor and delivery.”

“Read that, too. And hope it helps because not into proving how much pain I can take.”

“Totally agree. Well, I guess I should be on my way,” River said, and I watched as she placed the things Luna handed her into her bag. When she looked up at me, the smile she had for Luna and Ghost was gone and replaced with a sneer.

“If you want to finish telling me about the stick up my ass, could you hurry? I’d like to get home and shower.”

“By all means don’t let me keep you from your shower,” I said and glared at her, then I moved to the side and let her pass. After she was a few steps away, I added. “Because God knows you could use the hot water to melt some of the ice off.”

If I hadn’t been watching her walk away, I wouldn’t have noticed her falter before she continued down the sidewalk. And if I noticed how the tight pants she wore made her ass look good, wasn’t anyone’s business but mine.

“Damn, if the sexual tension were any thicker between you two, I’d need a knife,” Luna said as she moved to step into the yoga place.

“What?” I turned around to face Luna.

“More like needing a hose to break up a fight,” Ghost said and followed Luna through the door.

“Men. How do any of you ever get laid?”

“Because women can’t go without a dick,” Ghost said, and I chuckled when Luna looked over her shoulder and glared at him.

I walked through the door and stopped beside Ghost. I looked at him and cocked my brow to see if he had a clue what the hell his woman was talking about. When he shrugged, at least I didn’t feel like the only clueless man around.

“When we do get laid, it is by finding a woman who is warm-blooded. Not looking to get frostbite on important parts that I would like to keep using,” I said as we waited for Mrs. Wayne to finish talking with another lady.

Ghost chuckled, and Luna shook her head at me.

“Good grief, you two are so under each other’s skin that there is only one end to it. And when both of you realize the attraction is mutual, anyone close will end up with second-degree burns from being in the vicinity,” Luna said, then turned and addressed Mrs. Wayne when she walked up.

I decided Luna was crazy if she thought the woman had an attraction to me.

As for me, I wasn’t interested in spending the time to see if the ice princess could be thawed out. And dreams, they would go away. Eventually.

Right?

Christ, a woman I barely knew punched buttons I didn’t even know I had. And it pissed me off.

To even the playing field, maybe I needed to find her buttons.