He's a Brute (Tough Love Book 1) by Chloe Liese

Author:Chloe Liese [Liese, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-05T18:30:00+00:00

Seventeen

Zed

Contrary to what the tabloids would tell you, I’d never dated a female athlete. Never looked at one covered in sweat, with a competitive glint in her eye, and fantasized about tossing her on my bed and fucking her good old missionary style. Just so she’d have to look into my eyes and remember who was top dog.

Until Nairne. She leaned her hands on her legs and laughed as she breathed heavily, winded from all our shooting. She’d just beat me, and that meant I’d lost the bet. That meant no dinner.

That wasn’t happening.

“One more,” I demanded.

Her arms folded. Emerald eyes glittered with menace or arousal, maybe a little bit of both. “No.”

“Why.” It wasn’t a question. It was a fucking command. Answer me. Explain why this exists between us, when you despise how I am, and I can’t stop wanting everything about you that makes me crazy.

“Because I’m going to win anyway. No point in getting your hopes up.” She sped by me, dribbling the basketball, and I got hard just watching her. Lean arms, that smirk on her rosy lips. Jesus, I was so fucked in the head over her.

“What do you want from me, Zed?” She turned and sunk a long two. “I’m trying to figure it out. I’m not one for being dictated to. I seem to drive you mad with my independent streak. Why exhaust yourself on someone like me?”

I wanted to tell her everything. How I couldn’t make sense of why I liked her so much when she made me want to rip my hair out half the time. Why her ocean air and flower scent made my dick stone, and why her clipped accent and sharp tongue heated my blood. Or why the temporary nature of us fit so well into the sad fact that my life could never involve forever. I settled for a dialed down but largely honest answer.

“Long term isn’t in the cards for me, Nairne. You and I have good chemistry. I think we’ll fuck like pros. I like your intelligence and your body, and you piss me off, but not in ways that make me want to forego all the good stuff. That enough for you?”

She stared at me, ball in her lap, analyzing each sentence I’d given her. “Fine. Then we form an agreement. Clear boundaries. Expectations. And an end date. A contract of sorts.”

That was all she needed? I could kick myself. I’d been coming at it all wrong, treating her like women in my past—appealing to her emotions, trying to ply her sexually, overwhelming her with what she wanted, so she wouldn’t overthink what she didn’t.

Nairne was practical to a fault and smarter than all that. She’d signed a contract before, as a professional athlete. She wanted terms and clauses. I could do that.

“That’s it?” I asked.

Her hair looked mahogany tonight, wet with sweat and shining in the streetlights. Her head tipped to the side. Then her eyes trained over my shoulder.

A new voice startled me.

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