The male students walking by stopped, appreciating the beauty walking among them. The female students, on the other hand, were not as appreciative.
“Bet you a six pack those bitches hate her guts,” Shade muttered.
Shade let his gaze catch several of the men and women and they all soon hurried on their way, smart enough to know they were out of their league.
Beth smiled at Razer and Shade.
“Lily, you remember Razer and Shade.”
“Hello.”
“I told Lily we could go eat lunch. Maybe a little shopping if it won’t put you guys out.”
“Not at all. You girls climb on the bikes,” Razer answered.
Beth immediately went to Razer’s bike and climbed on, but Lily stayed frozen. Shade wasn’t going to put up with it. He kept his focus on Lily, ignoring Beth trying to get off the bike to help her and Razer telling her to stay put.
“Come here, Lily,” Shade ordered, easily recognizing the wounded look in her eyes as Lily’s body went taut and she threw a wild look at her sister. His stomach clenched in fury. He had seen the same look before after Evie had first been attacked.
Before Beth could do anything, Shade threw his extra helmet into Lily’s grasp. The only way to get her on his bike was to distract her from her fear.
“Get on the bike. I’m hungry. Move that sweet ass, or I’ll put you on the bike myself.”
Lily hesitantly followed his order, getting on the bike, putting on the helmet as Shade started it up, and then they pulled out with a roar of motors.
The restaurant they chose was small with a family atmosphere. They sat talking after they had eaten until the waitress started throwing them dirty looks. Afterwards, they drove to the small strip mall where the sisters wandered around arm in arm, window-shopping and occasionally going inside one of the small stores. Razer and Shade sat on their bikes, keeping a close eye on the women.
They came out of one shop with several bags. Shade noticed Lily’s laughter die when she saw him, not paying attention to Beth’s frown.
“What wrong?” Razer asked.
“How are we going to get the bags to campus?” Beth asked.#p#分页标题#e#
As Razer and Shade split the load between them, stashing the bags of clothes into their saddlebags, one bag dropped and a waterfall of colorful underwear fell to the pavement.
“Oh.” Lily immediately bent, hastily putting the clothes back inside the bag.
One bright red pair fell by Shade’s boot, and before Lily could pick it up he had the silky material in his hands, his dick hardening behind his zipper when he felt the soft material, imagining the panties covering her pussy.
With a face as red as the underwear she had just purchased, Lily could only mutter her response. “Thanks.”
“No problem.” Shade’s response was just as strangled as he regained control over his body. As a Dom, he always had control of his dick. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d had an erection, which was beyond his ability to control.
Shade had to grit his teeth all the way back to the campus. Her arms circling his waist and her breasts pressed against his back made him want to keep riding when Razer pulled up in front of Lily’s dorm room. Shade wanted to grab her hands as they fell away from his waist, feeling as if the sun had moved behind a cloud.
Shade pulled out Lily’s bags as the sisters said their goodbyes.
He kept his face impassive when he heard her soft voice addressing him.
“Thank you for bringing Beth. Goodbye.”
Shade’s heart sank further with every step she took away from him.
“Brother, she’s too young.”
Shade turned his mirrored gaze to Razer. “You think I don’t know that? It’s the only reason I’m letting her go back inside,” Shade admitted. Loyalty ran deep with Shade; he wasn’t going to lie to another brother. “I can wait.”
“You sure?” Razer’s doubt-filled voice questioned.
“I’m sure. I won’t touch her until she’s twenty-one,” Shade promised, seeing the dubious look didn’t disappear from Razer’s face. “Have I ever gone back on my word?”
“No, but I’ve never seen you look at a woman the way you do Lily.”
“I can wait,” Shade repeated his words. “But when she turns twenty-one, despite whatever is going on with you and Beth in the future, I expect you to keep out of my business with Lily.”
Razer’s hands went up in surrender. “I wouldn’t think of interfering. Besides, I won’t even be seeing Beth then. That’s years away.”
Shade didn’t reply. His intuition told him the blond had Razer by the balls, but if Razer didn’t realize he was in ass-deep with Beth, Shade wasn’t going to be the one to tell him. He didn’t stick his nose in other brothers’ business, and he didn’t want them in his.