Commanding Casey: An Enemies to Lovers Romance (West Coast Doms Book 2) by Nicolina Martin

Author:Nicolina Martin [Martin, Nicolina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

15

Cole

I drink her in. It’s as if I’m seeing her in a new light. Again. Gone is the annoying little know-it-all whom I first drove here, gone is the sexy vixen I had to get my hands on, no matter how wrong it was. Her face is open and curious as she digs through my pile of books. She picks out a book about the Civil War and Of Mice and Men.

“Can I borrow these?” Her voice trails off as our gazes meet. Fucking hell. How am I supposed to stay away from her when everything about her invites me in? I don’t know if she knows how sensual she is: that chewing on her bottom lip, that wrinkle between her eyebrows when she focuses on something, and her dark eyes, filled with more emotion than should fit in one person.

I clear my throat. “Yeah, sure. There are more where they came from.”

She doesn’t move.

“Native American, huh?” I say. “You don’t look it.”

“I didn’t know there was a look? The absence of feathers and braids?”

“You look like… I don’t know, like a pinch of South America, some Asian.” I shrug. “Beats me.”

“My dad’s from Jamaica. Dreads, reggae, the whole shebang. And Jamaicans come from everywhere. They’re a mix of everything. Mom’s American, but with a mixed heritage. No Asians as far as I know, though.”

It’s as if my hands aren’t connected with my mind. I raise my arm and trace along her cheekbone with the back of my knuckle. I don’t breathe, and I don’t think she does either.

“Well,” I say and let my arm drop. “Someone did something right.”

She scoffs and clutches the books to her chest. “Is that a backward compliment on my looks I hear?”

I raise an eyebrow and grin. “Maybe?”

She widens her eyes. “You’re giving me whiplash, Cole.”

I laugh and shrug. “I can’t help that you’re sensitive.”

Casey throws up her free hand. “And there he goes again.”

“With what?”

“The hot and cold.”

“You’re reading too much shit into things. I’m just lending you a couple of books.”

“And letting me sit by your table, introducing me to your pack.”

“Pack?”

“Well, yeah, the other thugs who have never spoken to me in public unless they were forced to.”

“Does it annoy you a little bit?”

“Like fuck!”

“I told you. You weren’t gonna get accepted here like one of the dudes. It’ll never happen, Keagan.”

Her face falls and my chest tightens. I’m not emotionless. I feel sorry for her, but emancipation will never reach these latitudes and bigotry will prevail. There’ll be no fairytales, no one will see the light. Her presence here won’t change history. She chose the wrong place to escape to. It’s the bitter truth.

Tightening her lips into a thin line, she then spins on her heels and stomps off.

“Casey!”

She stops but doesn’t turn.

“What are you running from?”

Her back stiffens. “I thought you didn’t ask people shit like that here.”

“You’re not exactly ‘people.’”

She turns, her eyes narrowing, flashing dark. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

I sigh and close my eyes as I cock my head and crack my neck, then I move in on her.

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