Page 28 of Same Difference
He leaned forward again and rested his elbows on his knees, his hands hovering right beside her outer thighs. “If you ever need anything, all you have to do is ask.”
“Why? Why would you want to do things for a female who doesn’t belong to you?”
“Because I’m sick in the head like that, Delta. It feels fucking good to be myself with you right now. You’re going to have all these questions on why I do things, and here is some insight into the real me. Because I fucking want to. That’s it. I live moment to moment, I don’t overthink or overcomplicate things, I do what I feel is right in the moment, and you have to accept that, do you know why?”
“Wh-why?”
He leaned forward just inches from her face. “Because we’re friends now. You dissolved our Arrangement, so now we will navigate whatever this is.”
The way he said that lifted chills on her skin.
“Stand up,” he gritted out.
“Don’t tell me what to do.”
Surprise washed over his face and stayed for just a moment before the wicked smile was back. “I like when you talk back, Delta-Girl. You’ve never done that before.”
“Because you were confusing.”
“And you were boring.”
“And you’re rude!”
“Good,” he rumbled. “Now we are reaching an understanding. Rule five, don’t ask me if I’m okay anymore. It pisses me off.”
“Well, I ask that because you never talked to me, and I thought I was doing something wrong!”
“Just assume I’m fine.”
“Just assume I’m fine too, with or without you.”
He nodded, and that stupid devilish smile was infuriating.
“How can we be friends? I don’t even know anything about you,” she ground out.
“I’m the seventh son of the Donn Pack and trust me when I say I’m tame compared to my father and grandfather. That’s all you need to know.”
“No thanks. I had an empty relationship with a man once. It wasn’t for me.” She stood and strode for the bar, needing a second outside of the tension he was causing inside of her body.
She glanced over at Nory, but her friend’s mouth was hanging open, and she mouthed,That was so hot.
Delta shrugged like what-the-hell because she absolutely did not know what was happening right now.
Nate was different tonight.
And then he was there, walking beside her. His hand hovered at her back. She could feel it. He was testing the boundaries of rule number one, and that pissed her off.
She moved to sit on a stool at the bar, but he was there pulling it out for her and then pushing her closer to the bar top smoothly, like he’d done that with a hundred women before her.
“You are a liar,” she accused him.
“What have I lied about?” he asked, taking the seat next to her.
“About who you are, clearly. I don’t even recognize what this is,” she said waving to all of him. “You were quiet and respectful in front of my dad and my Pack, and you were quietand distant but respectful for the two months we lived together.Lived together, Nate.”
“My name is Nathan.”
“What?”
