Page 34 of Imperfections Seduced
“You heard me.” I study her while she nervously bites her lower lip. I’m instantly turned on at a time I shouldn’t be, but that’s the effect she’s had on me since she came back. If I’m being honest, since she was thirteen. She looks at me with pleading eyes.
“Nick, please don’t say anything, don’t make a scene. It was a long time ago, and we’re friends now, and he’s always treated me with respect and kindness.”
“Yeah, right.”
“You know if you start this Chris will come over here and side with you. Don’t do this, not tonight. If you care about me, let it go.”
“You know I care about you. I always will.” Sighing, Ibrush a piece of her hair behind her ears watching her profile as Matt walks toward us.
“Nick, let it go. It was a long time ago. Please. It was fully my choice, he didn’t know what was going to happen that night and neither did I, but it was my decision. He was completely respectful.”
“Fine. Only the one time?”
“Does it matter?” She looks at me, lips parted.
“Yes, it does.”
“Only once.”
“Okay, I won’t say any more about it tonight.”
“Good. The last thing I want broadcasted in a crowded club to my brother is that I lost my virginity to one of his friends.”
Well, how the hell do you think I feel hearing it?
Nick
Three hours, a shot ofwhiskey, and two beers later, I have one thing on my mind: Cat and her barely-there emerald green dress. She’s even cute when she’s had too much to drink, giggling after every other sentence that comes out of her incredible sexy, lickable lips. I can think of a lot of things I want to watch those lips do. I should have been her first and only in every way. I let her get away, and it won’t happen again. She’s going to be mine; damn, I know I have to hurt her before I can love her. Then again, she might hate me before I get the chance to show her how much she means to me, and I want her in my life.
I go to the bathroom, and when I come out I see Ava leaning beside the door.
“What, have you started using the men’s bathroom now? Has it come to this? Is it so hard for a beautiful girl such as yourself tofind a decent man?”
She pokes her lips out at me and flips me the bird. I grin and give her a wink. “I love you too.”
“It will never come to that, no matter how many assholes I have to endure to get to Mr. Right.”
“It better not. Okay, so what do you want? Why are you accosting me by the men’s bathroom?”
“Seriously, sister to brother?”
I know she’s serious because “sister to brother” is what we used to say to each other when we were younger. We didn’t have siblings growing up until when I was ten and my dad remarried. We were more like siblings than cousins. “I’m listening.”
“You need to be straight with Cat and tell her the truth about what’s going on with you and Kate before it’s too late and someone else comes in and gives her what she thinks she wants. You fucked up royally, messing around with her bitch of a sister, who I will remind you hates my guts.”
“Believe me, I know I fucked up, more than you know.” I look down, rubbing my hand across my eyes.
“Fix it before it’s too late.”
“I need you to do something for me.”
“What?”
“Can you get Chris to stay here with you so I can get Cat alone and talk to her?”
“I’m pretty sure I can, since he’s had too much to drink. He can’t drive. So it should be easy enough to take advantage of himfor once.”
“Thanks. I’ll take Cat home.”
