“A limited edition ’Cuda, only six hundred sixty-six made in 1970,” she interrupted him. “I know what kind of car it is, Nikoli. My dad owned one. He had the seventh one off the assembly line. I promise to be careful.”
He blinked and shook his head. “Maybe on the way back,” he said finally.
She pouted. It was a full-on lip pout, and he didn’t even think she was aware she was doing it. Her lips were beautiful when she pouted, and he took a step closer, noticing she took another step back. He was going to have to get to the bottom of this. He had no chance if he couldn’t touch her.
“Don’t feel bad, Lils,” Luther said. “I’ve known him for years and he barely lets me ride in it.”
“Why don’t I know that you know about cars?” Janet asked from behind them. “You think Mike or Adam would have mentioned it.”
“Mikey doesn’t know,” Lily said, “and Adam wouldn’t say anything. He gets embarrassed when he has to call me to fix his car.”
Janet laughed. “I’ll bet. Well, I’m off to find Mike. He’s supposed to take me go see some new scary movie.” She shuddered. “Why I let him talk me into these things is beyond me.”
“Hey, can you drop me off at my frat house on the way?” Luther asked. “Nik refused to stop on the way over. We were running late.”
“Sure,” Janet said. “Lily, call if you need anything.”
Nikoli snorted at Janet’s very obvious innuendo. Frankly, he was sick of it. For the last three hours, his phone had been blowing up with texts from people he knew telling him to leave Lily alone and not to hurt her. You’d think she was Mother Theresa the way people rallied to protect her.
She was still eyeballing his car with lust when he finally focused his attention on her. Her barreling down the steps toward them and straight for his baby had sidetracked him. Now he gave her a good once-over and laughed outright at her obvious attempt to make herself look awful. Unfortunately, Nikoli didn’t think the woman could look awful in a burlap sack. The pigtails made her look cute, and the baggy clothes she had on only added to her comfortable appearance. She looked adorable, and it made him all kinds of curious to see what she had on underneath them.
“Alone at last, Lily Bells,” he murmured salaciously.
She gave him a startled look and took another five steps back.
“Shall we go?” he asked mildly when she looked ready to bolt at the desire in his eyes.
She was the prey dancing with the predator. The predator fully intended to win this hunt.
Chapter Six
“So, where to?” Nikoli asked as they pulled away from the dorm.#p#分页标题#e#
“Doesn’t matter,” she said, distracted, her fingers caressing the interior of the car.
Nikoli grinned. She was too busy examining the car to be nervous with him. If she only knew what watching her fondle his car was doing to him, she’d put her hands under her rump and sit still for the rest of the ride.
“Joe’s okay?” he asked her.
“Sure,” she said. “They’ve got the best Reubens in town, and I’m starved.”
“Didn’t get to eat?”
“No.” She shook her head. “I had too much to do, speaking of which…”
Nikoli glanced over at her and grew slightly alarmed at the pissed off look on her face. “What?” he asked cautiously.
“You made one of my girls cry today.”
Nikoli groaned inwardly. He’d only had sex with one girl today, the lusty blonde from check-in. She was in Lily’s dorm? Damn.
“Lily, we’ve already been over this,” he warned. “Every girl I have sex with knows up front what to expect. I already told you this.”
“Oh, I know.” She nodded. “Stephanie knew it too, but she assumed she could make you feel differently.”
“Her mistake,” he put in quickly. “Not mine.”
“Agreed,” Lily said. “What I’m talking about is the fact you had someone, I’m presuming Luther, throw her out instead of having the decency to do it yourself. Do you even realize how used that makes a woman feel? Especially a nineteen year old girl?”
Well, hell. Who knew the blonde was going to land him in a morality lecture from Ms. Sweet and Innocent herself? Lily needed to stop trying to think of him as a decent guy. He wasn’t, and he knew it. He was a selfish bastard on the best of days.
“What’s your point, Lily?” he asked. “She knew what she was in for when she came back to my place. I was done and needed a shower. I figured she had the good sense to get gone. Not my fault Luther had to kick her out.”