Rock Chick Revenge (Rock Chick #5)(140)

I licked my lips and nodded.

“But you’d do it anyway?”

I nodded again.

“Would you do it even if you weren’t tryin’ to manipulate me into not doin’ somethin’ you don’t want me to do?”

He knew my game.

I wasn’t surprised. First, he knew everything. Second, I was being pretty obvious.

I thought about it a beat. Then a bit more hesitantly, I nodded again.

His eyes dropped to my mouth then he muttered, “My beautiful Ava.”

I tremor shot through my body at his words and then he kissed me, hard, long, wet and very, very nice.

When he stopped kissing me, I was deep in a Luke Lip Fog and his hand slid from my ass up my spine.

“Tonight,” he whispered. “I want you right here, but with my c**k inside you, while you make yourself come. Right now, beautiful, as much as it kills me, I’m gonna find Dexter.”

That cut through The Fog. “Luke.”

“I know you think you’re protectin’ me but I told you, this is somethin’ I gotta do.”

“Luke.”

He ignored me and carried on. “My woman is sittin’ in my lap with a torn lip and a black eye. This is not just about revenge. It’s about sendin’ a message.”

My body started getting tight. “Luke.”

His arms moved to wrap around me.

“Beautiful, I want everything you offered this morning but I can’t enjoy it until I know you’ll be safe. What I do puts you out there. Anyone who thinks to f**k with you has got to understand there’ll be consequences. What I’m doin’ will make you safe.”

“You can’t guarantee that.”

“I can sure as f**k try.”

My body finished getting tight and I glared at him.

“This is who I am,” he told me.

“I don’t like it,” I retorted.

He half-grinned again. “Yeah you do.”

How unbelievably arrogant.

“No I don’t,” I snapped.

The grin went full-fledged. “Babe.”

I tried to pull away. His arms went tight.

“Let me go,” I bit out.

“Not gonna happen.”

I went back to glaring and Luke burst out laughing. “One thing’s certain, life with you is never gonna be boring,” he informed me.

He said that like he wasn’t sure it was a good thing but he was looking forward to it anyway.

If I wasn’t naked, I would have put my hands on my hips. Instead, I tried to pull away again.

His hand went back into my hair, he tilted my head down and he kissed me. I fought it for a few beats, lost the fight and kissed him back.

When he stopped kissing me, he was back to grinning. “Try not to do anything today that’ll get you in trouble.”

“You try not to do anything that will get you incarcerated,” I shot back.

He laughed again (the nerve!) touched his lips to mine, shifted me aside then he was gone.

I know you don’t like it but I think he’s sweet for wanting to protect us, Good Ava shared.

It isn’t sweet, it’s HOT, Bad Ava chimed in.

Yeesh, Bad Ava thought everything was hot.

I crawled under the covers and fell back to sleep.

* * * * *

The phone ringing woke me up.

I rolled and nabbed it off the nightstand.

“Yo,” I muttered.

“Babe.”

Obviously, it was Luke.

I got up on an elbow. “Please tell me you aren’t calling from a police station.”

He laughed like what I said was extremely funny (which I thought it was not) then said again, “Babe.”

“What?”

“Ma called. She showed up at the loft again, wants to take us to breakfast. I told her I couldn’t go but she could take you. She’s heading to your place now.”

I shot into a sitting position. “Excuse me?” I asked.

“She’ll be there soon.”

“I can’t go to breakfast with Mrs. Stark. The girls and I have plans.”

“You gotta go. She’s lookin’ forward to it.”

Shit!

I knew what he was doing. He was stopping me from searching for Noah like I had tried to do with him earlier that morning.

And he was better at it.

“I cannot believe you,” I snapped.

“Ava Babe, you were sleeping. If you were all fired up to find Dexter you would be hunting. It’s just breakfast. You and the girls can go after Dexter when you’re done with Ma.”

“Call her back, tell her I have plans.”

“Can’t. She would be disappointed. I don’t like to disappoint her and I get the impression she wants time just with you.”

Mrs. Stark wanted time just with me? This was not good. In fact, this freaked me way the hell out.

“Call her back,” I repeated then I heard a knock on my door. “Shit!” I cried. “She’s already here.”

“I’ll make it up to you,” he told me as I jumped out of bed and started searching for my clothes.

“Impossible.”

“Nothing’s impossible.”

“No, Luke, mark my words. This is impossible. I’m seriously pissed at you.”