Page 50 of The Roommate Problem
Glancing left and right to make sure no one was around, he leaned in to whisper in her ear. “And I don’t know if you know this, but when you poke the bear, expect to be devoured.”
She shivered as his lips grazed the shell of her ear ever so subtly, his teeth biting down gently on her lobe. Damn, it was a bad idea to do this here. They couldn’t sneak away for risk of being caught, plus they were both on the clock. Still, she looked so beautiful, and memories of the past few nights were so fresh in his head. Plus, if she was going to tease him, it was only fair he got to torture her right back.
“Is that a warning?” her breathy voice asked.
“It’s a promise, Sunshine.”
“I do like a man who keeps his word.”
Yup. This had definitely been a bad move. Now he was going to have to stand outside by the van for at least ten minutes to calm his body down. Looked like he’d succeeded in torturing them both.
Reaching inside the van, he pulled out one of the boxes filled with the smaller bouquets of flowers, similar in look to the larger one he’d just carried in. These were in acrylic vases, so the boxes were much lighter. He passed one off to Mo and nodded toward the building.
“Go on ahead with that. I’ll be in in a minute.”
“Need a second to cool down?” She smirked, her gaze going to his crotch.
He grabbed another box and held it in front of the erection currently trying to burst its way through his jeans. Mo laughed, shaking her head as she turned and headed to the event hall.
“It’s your own fault, you know. You started it.”
Yeah, yeah. He planned on finishing it, too.
Tonight.
In bed.
Dammit, that kind of thinking was not helping his situation. He needed to distract himself with something else.
“Hey, Mo,” he called out just before she entered the back kitchen door.
She turned, adjusting the box in her arms. “Yeah?”
“What’d you say to those kids?” He’d been wondering how she managed to reprimand them and make them all as happy as kids on Christmas in a single moment.
Pink lips curled as she graced him with the most beautiful smile he’d ever seen.
“I told Jamal just because he was smaller than his sisters didn’t mean he wasn’t as important, and I told Makayla and Alyssa that if they kept tormenting their brother, they couldn’t get mad when he put worms in their bed. Then I told them all if they were good for the entire wedding, I’d slip them an extra piece of cake.”
So they were siblings. Wait, “Why would he put worms in their bed?”
Mo assumed a guise of innocence. “I have no idea. I can’t imagine anyone passing down the trick she used to get back at her brothers to a sweet little boy.”
He chuckled. “You know, Mo, sometimes I think you’re just a little bit evil.”
She gave him a curtsy. “I’ll take that as a compliment. Besides, us babies of the family have to stick together. It’s the youngest sibling code. You’d know that if you had any siblings.”
“I have step-siblings.” What? Why had he said that? It just slipped out. Judging by the shocked expression on her face, it’d surprised Mo, too. He normally didn’t share a ton about himself with people and certainly nothing about his childhood, but with Mo…she had a way of pulling things from him before he even realized he was sharing.
He wasn’t sure he liked it.
Turning to face the open van, he stacked the box in his hands on top of another. “We better get these things inside. Time’s wasting.”
And he was sharing far too much with a woman who affected him like no one else had. This was very dangerous territory, and if he wasn’t careful, August was afraid Mo might try to work her way into his heart.
Too bad he’d locked that up years ago.
And thrown away the key.
