Page 32 of Just One Silver Fox

Something was wrong.

“Not like this,” he said, his voice rough.

“Am I doing it wrong?”

He couldn’t coherently explain, but again Nate had the sense this was something Sonia thought she should do rather than something she enjoyed. It felt like an obligation and he didn’t want to introduce that note to their interval. “I’d rather see your eyes.” It was true. When he admitted that, she looked pleased.

He’d gotten that right.

He caught her nape in his hand, pulling her close for a kiss. She leaned against him, still caressing him with one hand, but Nate had a much better idea of how to pass the time. He moved and picked her up, his hand around her waist and the Hook beneath her bum, then put her on the counter. In one smooth stroke, he removed her jeans, then bent to eat her before she could move away.

Sonia sighed.

She moaned.

And he already knew exactly how to get her to that little squeak in record time.

They were well on the way when her phone rang. Sonia jerked away from him, looking toward the nightstand. There was a charger there, but no phone. “Where is it?” she whispered, evidently intent on taking the call.

Damn.

Nate would plan for dessert, maybe.

“Purse?” he suggested. He crossed the room and got her the one she’d had at the club. Something inside it rang as he was passing the bag to her. “Point to me,” he said as she pulled out the phone.

Sonia looked at the call display in obvious confusion. “Tobias? What does he want?” She didn’t expect Nate to reply, obviously, because she answered the phone.

Tobias?

Who the hell was Tobias? Nate felt a niggle of jealousy that was completely unmerited. It didn’t matter who Tobias was. It didn’t matter if Sonia had a whole list of candidates vying for her attention. Their one-and-done was finished.

All the same, Nate felt grumpy as he headed for the washroom to wash up for dinner.

“Tobias?” Sonia said behind him, then caught her breath. “Katia!”

Nate glanced back as relief washed through him. If Katia was close enough to Tobias to have his phone, then Tobias, whoever he was, had Nate’s complete sympathy.

* * *

“What do you want?”Sonia asked her sister in an undertone when Nate had shut the bathroom door.

“We need to talk,” her twin insisted.

“We do not,” Sonia replied. “I’m done talking to you…”

“Valentine’s Day was ages ago,” Katia replied heatedly. “And besides, we have bigger problems than Nick being a jerk.”

“I don’t agree. You might have bigger problems, but I’m not interested in solving any of them. We’re done.”

“You have to be interested,” Katia said with greater urgency. “This is huge. It’s epic. This is going to mess up everything. We have to make a plan…”

“No,” Sonia said, well accustomed to her twin’s fondness for exaggeration. “No more plans. I don’t even know you anymore. You’re dead to me, just likethem.”

Katia fell silent for a minute and Sonia wondered whether it was actually possible to hurt her sister’s feelings. “You don’t mean that,” she said finally. “You can’t.”

“I do mean it. You set me up. You thought it was funny, I’m sure, but I’m not going to play along any more. You always want someone to mock, Katia, and it isn’t going to be me anymore. Give Tobias back his phone and leave me alone.”

“I had to use his phone. You’ve blocked me.”

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