Page 29 of Same Difference
He waved two fingers at the bartender, and she came bounding over to him like a fuckin’ golden retriever. It had taken Delta ten minutes to get her attention when she’d ordered her first drink.
“Peach margarita for the lady, and water for me.”
“Water? More pretending you’re a good boy?”
“Water because I’ll be driving your drunk ass home tonight, and I’m not doing that on a buzz.”
Oh. Well, that was kind of nice of him. Safety first.
“You cuss a lot.”
“So do you when you talk to Nory. You didn’t talk to me much, so I had to pay attention.”
“Well, maybe I was trying to be respectful to you too.”
“Boring,” he muttered, pulling his wallet out.
“Why did you choose a submissive mate if you are so opposed to boring partners?”
“Submissive doesn’t have to mean boring. Besides, I’m not hating on you. I was boring with you too.”
“When you would leave me at the hotels to go eat without me, were you talking to other women?”
He tossed her a frown and laughed. “No.”
“Then what were you doing?”
“Getting some time where I didn’t have to pretend.”
“You brought that on yourself. I never asked you to pretend.”
“Didn’t you?”
She shook her head, confused.
“Look,” he said. “The first time I saw you, you had your collar buttoned up your throat. It looked like it was stranglingyou. You had perfect posture, and your chin held high. I thought you were pretty.”
“Why does any of that matter?”
He leaned closer. “Do you know what Donn wolves are?”
“Delinquents?” she guessed.
He huffed an amused sigh. “Felons more-like. We have gotten away with a lot over the generations. You weren’t the normal type for us Donn wolves.”
“What is the type of a Donn wolf?” she whispered.
Nate dragged his gold eyes down her figure, and back up. “Short skirts, boots, see-through lace tops we can see a bra through. Dark make-up.” He reached for her and tugged a strand of her biggest blond highlight through his fingertips. “Blond streaks.”
“So, I wasn’t your type at all. It makes no sense that you asked my father for the Arrangement contract.”
“It makes no damn sense that you said yes. You didn’t even know me.”
“Maybe I wanted an escape.”
“I was an escape?”
She didn’t like this. He was touching subjects that still stung. “At first that’s all you were.”
