Cocky Roomie_ A Bad Boy Romance Novel(51)
My eyelashes flutter upward no matter how hard I’m trying to resist that piercing gaze.
I can’t let myself soften to him after what he did.
He crosses his arms, the bulk of his muscles pulling the cotton tightly across his pecs and shoulders. This man was meant to be naked.
“What?” I demand, temper flashing. “I don’t have to respond. Welcome back by the way. You don’t have to worry about this awkwardness we have between us now. I’ve been looking at places and I think I found something I can afford on my own.”
Anger darkens his features. I inhale sharply and try to look away, but I can’t.
“You’re moving out,” he grates.
“I think it’s best.”
He glares at me, snarls, “Fuck,” then walks past my desk to his office where he slams the door.
“Oh my God,” I whisper, touching my heart. “Dammit.”
For the rest of the day he acts like I’m not there. He laughs with the guys when they greet him with, “Good to see you, you fucker!” He and his uncle chortle away in the big, private office about things I can’t hear.
It’s terribly painful how slow the clock is movin’ today. When it is finally time to go, I am out of here so fast my hair practically flies up from the wind of my exit.
“Drew!” he shouts.
“Leave me alone,” I mutter, nerves shot from being ignored for five straight hours. I race to my car rummaging for my keys in my purse. I’ve never felt this clumsy. Why won’t the damn key get in the damn lock?!
He runs over, literally sprints. Just as I get the door open, he slams it shut. “Enough. This is enough.”
“Enough of your fake laughter, you mean? Enough of you walkin’ by me over and over and pretendin’ I don’t exist, ignorin’ me like I’m a piece of lint or somethin’?”
His jaw clenches on a furious glare. “You didn’t want to talk to me, so I didn’t talk to you.”
“And this is why I can’t date someone in their twenties!”
Jakes snarls, “Because you won’t even talk to them, or answer a fuckin’ text? Kinda hard to date when you won’t even open your mouth, Drew.”
“I meant, because you’re immature!”
“What’s mature about what you’re doing? Pretty sure you don’t know what that word even means.”
I blink through my fury. “Screw you!”
He plants his arms on either side of my old Honda, jailing me in, his face very close to mine. “Why won’t you talk to me? I don’t get it. Just because she made a move on me? I can’t help what women are going to do. Especially when it comes to my family.”
“Not because she made a move, Jake! Because you fucked her! Apparently for hours!” He blinks at me, stunned, so I let him have it, everything I’ve been holding onto since that morning. “Because I woke up to find her wearing the shirt you wore to the BBQ! The one you took to me because you were pretending to be a nice guy! Imagine my surprise when I find her panty-less, coming out of your room and sayin’ how much sex you guys had, when you didn’t even want her stayin’ over! Did you have to say yes to her? I know she’s more beautiful than I am, but she’s my friend and you said all those great things to me, Jake. Why’d you have to take her into your bed after you said those things to me? Why?!”
He shakes his head, helpless.
“That’s what I thought,” I whisper. “Now, please release me and let me drive home. This day has made me very tired.”
But he does no such thing. He surprises the hell out of me by kissing me out of the blue. Shocked beyond anything, I try to push him away, but he wraps his arms around my lower back and pulls me tightly against his hard body. “I thought you just didn’t care about me, Drew,” he rasps against my lips.
“What the hell, Jake?! You can’t kiss me like that after what you did!”
In the middle of the fucking parking lot, Jake laughs and kisses me again, crushing my body and doing everything he can to melt my resolve.
Shoving at him, I croak, “Stop it! You’re not bein’ nice!”
He grabs my chin and makes me look into his eyes. “I didn’t fuck Bernie, Drew. I tossed her back on the couch and locked my door! She lied to you. She lies! I wouldn’t touch that woman with Juan’s dick! Jesus, what kind of an asshole do you think I am?”
“A big one?” I whisper, stunned.
“Didn’t Jason explain how I know her, why I can’t stand her? She almost ruined my brother! If we didn’t knock him into his senses, he would be fucking homeless by now!”