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“How about I stare at your ass instead?” he called, and she shook her head. He didn’t have to look back to know the low growl came from Boy Wonder. “It’s a damn fine ass.”

Luther caught up to him. “Do you have a death wish?”

“They’ll get over it.”

“Where are you guys heading?” Luther asked, following them outside.

“To pick up the Mach 1.”

“You’re taking Lily? In her pajamas?”

Nikoli grinned. “She wants to drive, so I’m letting her drive…just not my baby.”

“She’s driving the Mach 1 back?” Luther asked, eyes wide. “What if she wrecks? Totals it?”

“Then she does. It’s just a car.”

“Just a car?” Luther shouted. “It’s a Mach 1!”

Nikoli stopped walking, seeing Lily staring at them curiously. He couldn’t afford to screw this up. “Lily’s not going to total the car. Her dad was Martin Holmes. She probably drives better than either of us.”

“That’s not the point,” Luther argued.

“Look, man. I get that you usually drive them back, but just this once, trust me, okay? You can drive it all day tomorrow. Hell, once the race is over, you can have it for your own baby. Don’t think I didn’t see the way you were salivating over the online images yesterday.”

“Yeah, whatever,” Luther grumbled, but Nikoli caught the gleam in his eye. Luther wanted that Mach 1 in a bad, bad way.

“Where are we going?” Lily yawned when Nikoli reached her. She looked cute. Strange that he’d think of this woman as cute, but he did. To him, women were hot or sexy, but never cute. He snorted. It sounded cliché, even to him.

“You up for some driving?”

“You’re going to let me drive your car?” Lily asked, her eyes wide and excited.

“No, you’re not driving Ellie, but you can drive the Mach 1 we’re going to pick up.”

“Really?” she asked, squealing like a girl.

“Really. We just need to swing by your dorm and pick up your license.”

“I can change my clothes…” She trailed off when he started shaking his head. “Why not?”

“Because I want you comfortable with me, Lily,” he told her. “We’re going to be spending all day in the car, so I want you relaxed. Those penguin pajama bottoms of yours should do the trick.”

She made a face at him but didn’t argue as they piled into his car. Her fingers started gently running over the leather seats the minute she got in. He stared at them, imagining her running them over his skin. Maybe being in the car with her all day wasn’t such a good idea.

No, he decided a few minutes later when she hopped out and flew up the front stairs of her dorm, his eyes following her ass. It wasn’t such a good idea at all.

Chapter Eleven

“So, what are your brothers’ names?” Lily asked curiously. She hadn’t been thrilled with the idea of spending all day alone with Nikoli trapped in a car, but the bribe of driving a Mach 1? Totally worth it.

“Kade is the oldest.” Nikoli kept his focus on the road when he answered her. “Dimitri, Viktor, Connor, then me, and Mason is the youngest at twenty.”

“Six boys?” Wow. “I bet your mama had her hands full.”

“You’ve no idea. If one of us wasn’t bleeding all over her floor, then we were fighting. She has this look that could make us feel both embarrassed and ashamed in a heartbeat.”

“I think all mothers have that look.” Her own mother certainly did. She’d used it when Lily announced her plans to move to Boston for college.

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