Page 54 of Indecent Lies

“Yeah, little girl,” he rasped in the darkness of the warm cab and she felt herself grinning really wide.

“Wow,” was all she could reply. “I think I like you as a biker.”

His laugh was magic and made her forget her early family woes.

So far she was not regretting leaving everything behind and finding Tait in Colorado.

FOURTEEN

“I do. And I don’t.” – Poppy

“Okay, talk the stuff so we can get to the kissing.”

“Jesus,” she was all but fizzing as she plonked on the couch with her legs tucked under her and her dark hair swept over one bare shoulder.

She was wearing one of those tops that didn’t have a neck so half of it fell off and showed too much creamy skin to his hungry eyes.

Texas didn’t sit next to her, he couldn’t or he’d animal attack her again.

He hadn’t meant to drag her across his lap in the truck or eat her whole, but he wasn’t sorry for it.

Once he’d kicked off his boots and his jacket, he poured himself a coffee and sat on the low table in front of her, cradling his cup, using it like a barrier so he didn’t reach for the woman gazing at him with sex in her eyes.

“I’m attracted to you,” he imparted to her and watched her eyes get low lidded and dream-like.

Fuck him, he liked that look on her. Liked it more because he’d put it there.

She made it worse by clapping and saying “Yay.”

Fucking adorable.

Seeing as they split before they got the food, he couldn’t handle that kind of cute on an empty stomach and a dick that hurt to know what she felt like hugging it with the wettest part of her body.

Something about Poppy clanged innocent to him and it made a man like himhungry.

There were no games, she was upfront even if she risked being knocked down.

“But…”

“Oh, no. Buts always mean something negative. Let’s get back to the part where you said you’re into me, Tait. I liked that bit so much better.”

Texas smirked when her face fell like she was tasting peanut butter. If she were anything like him, then she’d know that shit was nasty. It was unamerican, but it didn’t change the fact it was gross.

“Do you have a girlfriend? A regular woman? I don’t know how it works for bikers, do you just click your fingers and women lie down?”

Because she said it so serious, Texas’ mouth split into a cheek hurting grin.

God, that innocence was intoxicating, he felt drugged and drunk and he wanted to lick her up like maple syrup.

“Do you see a woman around here?”

“Only when I look in the mirror. But I don’t know what you get up to when I’m not around.”

“Little girl, you’re always around.”

“Not when you’re in the downstairs apartments, you’ve made it your man cave.”

“So I’m sneaking women in?”

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