Ruined: Loving An Alpha Male(28)

I smiled.

“Wow…uh…I bet that was an interesting sight.”

She shook her head.

“Why are men nasty beings? I mean, really… You’re smiling?”

I had to laugh.

“I’m sorry, Max. I’m just shocked. I didn’t expect you to say that! Where did you catch him?”

She sighed and swirled her glass of ice.

“At the gym he works out in. You know after the fight, I sat there and waited for him for an hour. When I called to see what was taking him so long, he told me he left already. I was pissed, of course. I had to study for an exam, but there I was waiting for that idiot. Anyway, he told me he was going with his brother. So I went home, you know. I studied and then tried to go to sleep. But I had this urge to talk to him. It was like I needed to desperately or something. So, I went to the gym and found a party in rare form.”

I chuckled, imagining what she must have walked through.

“I bet a lot was going on.”

“Oh, you have no idea.” She then looked at me and smiled. “No, wait a minute…You probably do.”

I nodded.

“Well, yes, I do have an idea. Did you find him right away?” I asked her, trying to get her mind off of me and back on Travis.

She shook her head.

“No, I found him in the back of the gym in some office of his brother’s. I actually almost missed him and was leaving. But I heard a female call his name, and I went back into the room I had just left.”

She shivered and shook her head, clearly remembering what she saw. I took her hand in mine and squeezed it. Her eyes met mine, and I saw the hurt resonating all through her eyes.

“I’m sorry he hurt you, Maxine.”

I brought her hand to my lips and kissed her hand softly. She followed her hand, as it reached my lips. Her eyes grew larger as I kissed her. She then squirmed slightly in her chair, which intrigued me.

Humph. That was interesting.

I cleared my throat.

“So, what did he, um, say to you today?”

I commenced to rub her knuckles slightly with my thumb. I didn’t want the connection between us to end. She squirmed a little more. Then I saw her try to concentrate on my words and not on what I was doing to her. I smiled at her knowing that I if I was able to touch more of her, I’d have her panting and screaming my name definitely. Oh, what music that would be to my ears.

“Nothing really.”

“I don’t buy that. You were physically affected by him. What did he say?”

She sighed, “He just said the same thing to me that he said that night I caught him.”

“Wait, you never told me what happened after you saw him. Did he run after you? Did he stop right then and there and talk to you? What?”

“I actually was followed by his brother, Train.”

I started to laugh hard.

“Wait, his brother’s name is Train? Is that his real name?”

She smiled, seemingly feeling more at ease.

“Yes, that’s his real name. Don’t ask me what their mother was thinking about. But anyway, he followed me out there telling me some bullshit about Trip feeling like I was cheating on him. So, I guess he felt justified to do what he did. The crazy part is Trip comes out to my car and started telling me I was being selfish, and I was wrong for yelling at his brother. He thought I was mad he was here with his brother instead of being with me.”

“So, he didn’t know you saw him?”

She shook her head.

“Nope, and I didn’t tell him. I just told him it was over, and he kindly told me we weren’t.”

“So, what he reminded you was that it wasn’t over between you and him earlier?”

I didn’t believe that made her upset the way I had seen her. She paused before she told me, and when she did, she didn’t look at me.

“No. Well, he told me to remember I was with him. And, well, he told me if he ever saw me with you again, we both were going to pay.”

I stared at her for a minute before I started to laugh. She frowned clearly not seeing the humor.

“What’s so funny?” she asked me, taking her hand from mine.

I was unable to respond. I was still laughing my head off. She then got angrier and rose from the booth and started to walk away from me. I stood and reached for her hand. I pulled her to me and wrapped her in my arms. She tried to move away from me. But when she realized she wasn’t going anywhere, she placed her hands on my arms.

I won’t tell you how good she felt in my arms because we’d be here for a very long time if I were to give details of what she was doing to me. So I’ll just tell you that I caressed her cheek with my finger. I traveled from the side of her cheek to her chin, tempting myself to touch her bottom lip. She kept my gaze as I touched her, trying to let me know in her own way what I was doing to her.