Hot and Cold by Notaro Paige

Author:Notaro, Paige [Notaro, Paige]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: new adult romance
Published: 2015-05-01T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

The fight was going to be held in - of all places - a high school gymnasium in Sterling Heights. The principal must have been a fan or something. I couldn’t imagine wandering past my old school some weekend and seeing a bunch of redneck pickups and gangbanger low riders piled up in the parking lot.

Ok, maybe I was just being a preppie princess, but that’s how it felt the one time I had gone to these things. This one was being run by a pretty highly rated security firm, and it had some VIPs attending on top. It should be even safer.

I knew all this, because I was headed there. On my own.

Sean had no idea I’d be there. Heck, I’d had no idea I was going till I’d finished talking to him on the phone as he was on his way to the fight.

“Thanks for being there for me last night,” he’d said. His voice came through low and soft as if he was still inside me.

“I was ready to take care of you a lot more,” I said, sprawled out on my bed and imagining him over me. “I could have gone for hours more, but you needed to sleep. Did you get enough rest?”

“Yes, ma’am. I slept like an angel. You must have noticed before you woke me with that kiss.”

“You did look calm, but you always look calm. No bad dreams?”

“No dreams at all. You wiped me out.”

I might have giggled before I stopped myself. He just made me feel so damn good about my body. I almost knew how good I looked by now, but the constant reminders were sweet.

“Well, I hope your other preparations went well. Did Silvio give you a second-hand high? Wait, would that hurt or help?”

“That’d be bad, Gabi. Slow reflexes are a bad thing.”

“Dulls the pain though, right?”

“Handling pain was never my problem. I lost on points the last couple times.”

The silence stretched.

“Hey,” I said. “That’s not going to happen tonight.”

“Oh, I know that.”

“You do? I mean, yeah, good.”

He chuckled. “I know it because the last person I was with was you.”

I eased over to the side of the bed. “What do you mean?”

“I mean, I didn’t see any of the other guys. Troy’ll meet me outside the cage tonight, but we didn’t do our ritual.”

“What’d you do this afternoon then?”

“I chilled. I took a drive, warmed up a little bit. Mostly, though, I thought of you.”

“Me?”

“Yeah, you. Knowing you have my back gives me more fire than any hours I can put in at the gym.”

I could hear the smoke in his words.

“Aww…” I started, but I had no idea what to say. I didn’t know what I had even done.

“Anyway, thanks,” he said, “If I make it happen tonight, it’s all because of you. I love you, baby.”

“I…love you, too.”

There was only his breathing on the line, but I could hear his smile.

If you’d told me that I’d first hear those words through the tinny speaker of some dumb phone, it would have broken my heart.

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