It’sLevi.
“What the hell are you doing? This room is occupied.” I look past him to check if he’s with someone. He’s not. “Go away, Captain stars and stripes,” I add, hoping the dig will expedite hisdeparture.
He pushes his foot forward before I can shut the door fully. “I was going to say ‘Trick orTreat’.”
“I ain’t got neither for you… although I feel thoroughly tricked by the way you had me spinning my wheels for your phone all day,” I tell him. Insulting him didn’t work. So maybeguiltwill.
“What are you ladies up to?” He doesn’t takethebait.
“Is this your room, Levi? Do youlivehere?”
“You know the answertothat.”
“Then go and bark up someoneelse’stree.”
Levi puts a bit of pressure on the door. He’s not exactly trying that much. It’s more to get my attention. “I could just ask Reese or one of her uncles to come ask you for themselves,” heoffers.
I’m not amused, but I’m nervous as hell. I try lying. “But Reese is in here. Reese!” I call out, hoping one of the girls will answer well enough for Levi to accept my story and make tracks. “Please tell Levi that we’re busy. He’sinterrupting.”
“Reese may have a twin,” Levi says, looking down the hall toward the staircase. “But if you come out here and have a dance with me downstairs, maybe I can convince her she’s needed downstairs, too. That may be just enough time for your friends to finish up with what you’re doing in there. Or, I can just call her right now and ask if she wants to check her room for three college girls and a can of spraypaint.”
Fuck.
He’s onto us. How doesheknow?
I turn to the ladies. Holly mouths the words “He’s lying” and I wonder how the hell she could know that for sure. I give a nervous shrug, pointing at the door to indicate that I’ll take one for the team. “All right,” I tell Levi. “I’ll come out in just asecond.”
“No. You’ll come out now. I don’t have allnight.”
He gazes at me with those piercing blue eyes. He’s not bluffing. I step out into the hallway. Levi takes my arm firmly and leads me into the room across the hall, shutting the door behind him. He grabs me by the shoulder and backs me againstthedoor.
“What the hell is wrong with you?” Idemand.
He meets my eyes, placing each hand against the door, bracketing me in so I can’t move. I open my mouth to tell him he has no right to manhandle me like this, or to think he can have his way with me, but I don’t get a word out. Levi covers my mouth with his, and swallows up every syllable with a kiss I was not expecting. He steals my breath, and my mindshutsoff.
Christ.
Hecankiss.
I’m probably liking it too much, considering that instead of pushing him away, my hands are gripping the spandex fabric of his costume. There isn’t an inch between our bodies either. I moan into his kiss as he flicks his tongue and parts my lips. I sound like I’m purring at the back of my throat. I explore his mouth and he ravishes mine, and soon one of my legs has already inched up and hooked aroundhiscalf.
The feel of his bulge pressing against my mound is what brings me back to reality. I’m not supposed to like Levi. I can’t enjoy this. That’s when I use all my strength to push him off me. I pull my right hand to the side, giving me enough room to unleash one heck of a slap on the side ofhisjaw.
“I promised you a dance, not a make-out session,” I tell him. “Back the hell up and letmego.”
Levi rubs the spot where I smacked him and smiles. “That kiss was a long time coming, kitty cat, but the whack across the face was a nicebonus.”
“I hope it leaves a mark,” I grumble, stepping away fromthedoor.
He pulls the door open and wedges his hand in the crook of my arm. “Let’sdance.”