Page 47 of Cocky Player

Probably.I was a man who liked fucking and getting my dick sucked off, and now I could add Brenna’s hand jobs as maybe my top three favorite things.The mechanics of it were easy.From the first time Brenna and I met though, we were way past mechanics and basic chemistry.

“I don’t…I don’t know what you mean.I thought we could talk, hang out.”

“But you came over here to check on me.”

“Yeah because I wanted to know if Powell said anything to you.”

It physically hurt me to lie to her, hold back the truth from her.It was only temporary.“And what, worried your dad would find out you were making out with the resident team playboy?”

She flinched at that and fuck it stung.He’d said something to Brenna about me.Before we ran into each other?Or after?

“What’d he say, Brenna?”David saying shit about me made my stomach roll.He was the only man in my life I could look to as a father figure and a part of me wanted to think he respected me and liked me, too.My one-night activities with women, however, were hardly a secret from the team and since some men gossiped more than pre-teen girls, of course he’d heard.

He’d had a “be careful and a role model in public” speech with me more than once or a hundred times.

“He mentioned something.”

“Had to be something concerning if it made you hop in your car to see me.”

She licked her lips, and then grabbed her glass, took a large gulp.“He said he respects the hell out of you as a player, but as a man, he said you have some growing up left to do.”

I laughed softly.It was the nicest way to warn her away from me and of course he’d be a nice guy about it.

“And what?You want my side?I don’t think I have to remind you that you came to me for one thing, and my guess is you figured I’d begoodat that one thing.Don’t get that way without practice.”

I was being glib.Kind of an asshole.Mostly because I still wasn’t sure why she was here.

“You are good at it,” she teased and whatever she thought of earlier was gone like a flash.“Maybe I don’t care what my dad thinks or wants for me.”

“No?”

She shook her head slowly, took a small step toward me until her hand pressed to my bicep and squeezed.Something warm smoldered in her gaze, darkening her green eyes and I knew without a doubt, if I leaned down, I could take her.I could probably pick her up, throw her on the kitchen counter, spread her legs and eat her for dessert.Or I could take her to my bed, prep her through one or two orgasms, getting her ready to take me.I could doallthe physical things I wanted to do to her once the night we met.

First, I had a more important task.

“Do you know what I’m curious about, angel?”

“What?”

“Why was it when I touched you earlier today when you ran into me, you looked totally fucking freaked?And your dad looked terrified out of his goddamn mind?”

Seventeen

Brenna

He noticed.Of course Connor noticed.He seemed to know and understand things about me even I was yet aware of.Somehow, I was special enough to him to make him want to open up and share his past with me.

Like him, I’d talked to so few people about mine.I’d been required to tell my therapist, and Gina became a necessity once my nightmares woke her up.

To share this with a man who hadn’t promised more than teaching me how to have sex with other men?

I’d given Connor more than I’d ever given anyone, but I didn’t want him knowing.Not because I didn’t trust him, or because I couldn’t talk about it.I didn’t want Connor to know because he’d look at me differently.He’d treat me differently.I could feel it.I’d had over a decade of experience with it from my entire family.By Connor’s own admission he wasn’t good with people so how could I know he’d handle my past with the understanding I craved?

I took my hand off Connor’s arm and stepped back, running that same hand along the back of my neck.“I’m not sure what you mean?”

Dark, midnight navy eyes narrowed on me and his nostrils flared.“Yeah, you do.What are you hiding, angel?”

A roaring sound rushed through my ears, making him sound like he was talking from a tunnel.“Nothing.”

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