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After they were retied, I pressed my lips to her belly button and gazed up at her. Her cheeks were no longer flushed, but there was irritation on her features.

I stood and kissed the hinge of her jaw. “I promise I’ll make you feel better later.”

“I think I hate you,” she whispered back.

I laughed. “I think I liked that, too.”

I smirked at her, opened the bathroom door, and ducked out before anyone could see us.

Or before she could chuck the glass bottle of hand soap at the back of my head.

Chapter 19

Ruby

That freaking, no good, rotten man! I was going to murder him. He left me gaping at him in the bathroom, standing there like an idiot, and all his promises of making sure he took care of me later could be right down his stinking, sexy throat.

Ugh. It took forever to calm down to leave the bathroom. Not only was my hair a mess, but my cheeks were flushed, and I had to clean myself off from the damage he did to me.

Logan Caldwell was not a nice guy. He was the devil disguised in sexy abs, buff biceps, and swim trunks that hugged his ass and showed off those damn calves.

I stomped a foot onto the rug, fisted my hands, and bit back all the curses I wanted to rain down on him like a torrential downpour. There was no way I was going back to his house tonight.

No freaking way. He spent all weekend playing with me, especially when he didn’t say anything to me at all and then he thought he could saunter up to me in front of all those people, make demands, and leave me like this?

Screw that.

Screw him.

This had been all my idea to begin with, and it was time Logan sweated a little bit. No man would have the upper hand on me again, least of all a six-foot-two, sexy man with a dominant streak I couldn’t help but follow.

I flung open the bathroom door, jaw aching from grinding my lips together, and almost ran smack into Molly.

“Oh!” I pressed my hand to my chest. “Sorry, you startled me.”

“You okay in here?” Her head twisted and she looked toward the kitchen.

“Yeah, great. Why?”

“Because you’ve been in here for a while.”

“Oh. Well, you know…” Easy breezy, beautiful. I sucked at lying and being put on the spot. “Yeah, just, you know.” I cringed and my hand dropped to my stomach. “Stomach issues.”

Molly laughed and I finally stepped out of the bathroom, turning so she could go in. “I understand that for sure.”

“Right, so, I’m gonna just… go back to the party.” Hopefully, by the time I reached it, I wasn’t acting like an idiot.

I shoved my thumb over my shoulder and stepped away. I didn’t head straight outside. I went to the kitchen instead, where many of the players’ wives or girlfriends or whatevers had decided to cool off in the air conditioning. Couldn’t blame them there. If they weren’t around, I’d be back to shoving my head into the freezer.

All because of Logan. He might have held the upper hand in our little game all weekend, but I was taking back the top spot next time I decided to deign him with my presence.

I munched on carrots and cucumbers, soaking them both in dip.

I talked to Maggie some more. I held her baby while Maggie got herself a plate of food and I brought her water when she sat in the living room to nurse her. Maggie was sweet. Jassen had filled me in over the weekend on most of the women my age who would be there, especially Maggie. Mostly because she hadn’t made the national news earlier this year due to escaping some cult or something, but she was also becoming a hugely popular, rising country star. She’d had her debut on a stage back in the winter, had spent the spring in recording studios, and Jassen didn’t have to tell me she had two million viewers on TikTok where she posted herself singing her new songs or having fun with covers because I already followed her.

She was also the nicest person I might have ever met, and as soon as we were introduced treated me like she’d known me for years, so of all the women I met at the party earlier, she was the one I drifted to the most.

I left her to the privacy of feeding her baby and went back to the kitchen to keep the growing mess easy for a later cleanup, when Molly came out of the restroom and shooed me back outside.

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