City Wolf Trilogy by Tressie Lockwood

Author:Tressie Lockwood [Lockwood, Tressie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Sugar and Spice Press
Published: 2013-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Nita became aware that someone was following her, and her heart began to pound in her chest. When she reached inside her purse for the pepper spray she kept there, he spoke up.

“Easy, Nita. I’m not going to hurt you.”

She gasped and turned around. Lucas stood there bold as anything after what he had done to her earlier in the day. “W-What are you doing here? Did you follow me?”

He nodded with no shame. “Yes, I wanted to make sure you were okay.”

“No thanks to you!” she snapped. Her heart continued to pound, but now it was because he was close and all she wanted to do was run into his arms, to taste his mouth again, to feel the hard muscles of his body pressed against hers. This was ridiculous. The man had threatened her, had left bruises on her arms, and she did not bruise easily. “Get out of here, Lucas. I never want to see you or talk to you again.”

“Why are you so mad at me?” he grumbled. “You are the one who dismissed me.”

“Before you could do it to me.” She rested her hands on her hips. “Admit it. You would have. You’ve probably done it to countless women in the past, leaving broken hearts all over the city.”

“So your heart is involved?”

She squinted at him and rolled her eyes. Deciding he wasn’t about to attack, she turned and continued her walk. He fell into step beside her, and she sighed. The man would not be dismissed easily. That much was obvious. She should pull out her cell and call Zandrea and Brant, but she hesitated. Doubts had assailed her all day long, and she wanted to get to the bottom of one particular one before she turned him into his people, or whoever.

“What do you want with me?” she asked him.

“Isn’t it obvious?”

“Oh here we go, you back to your normal cold-heartedness. Do you think that acting that way will win me over? Or is it your way of protecting yourself?”

“What about you? You stay in school year after year, with no major, no direction.”

“That’s none of your business.”

“Tell me why,” he insisted.

At first she wasn’t going to answer, but she hadn’t even told Zandrea and Stacy the reasons behind her perpetual schooling. Her inheritance had stipulated that her school bills be paid for as long as she was in school. Back when she was eighteen just entering college, she had realized that the wording would allow her to delay life for as long as the money lasted. And if what her trustees said was true, it could conceivably last for several lifetimes.

She sucked in a deep breath and blew it out. Her fingers curled into her palms like they always did when she thought of her parents, even after all these years. “From a baby, my parents loved to party. It was their life. They couldn’t get enough, and they were devoted to one another.” She hesitated, not wanting to sound self-pitying but wanting to be truthful to how she thought of her mother and father.

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