Lady and the Champ by Katherine Lace

Author:Katherine Lace [Lace, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-02T21:00:00+00:00

“Where are you going?”

“I need to get some things for you.”

I decide not to argue with that. Hopefully by “things” he means clothes and such. I’d prefer not to spend the next week or whatever in Nick’s too-big shirt and these jeans that used to belong to somebody he doesn’t remember.

When he leaves, I walk around the room for a while and then go to the bathroom. It’s strange, feeling his come slide down my thighs when I get up. I feel almost guilty trying to get rid of it. Not that anything I’ve done will stop any particularly motivated sperm from doing their thing.

That’s not something I want to think about. I go back to the bed and lie back down, still naked. It occurs to me that I actually feel safe for the first time in a long time.

I drift off at some point then wake abruptly with the strong sense somebody’s looking at me. Somebody is. It’s Nick. He’s standing over the bed, watching me.

“That’s not creepy at all,” I tell him.

He smiles. “I was just taking you in.”

I push myself to a seated position, suddenly self-conscious about my lack of clothes. I grope for a blanket, but Nick shakes his head. “No. Let me look at you.”

My face goes hot, and I can’t look back at him. “What did you go to get?”

“Some clothes for you. We’re going out to dinner.”

My gaze jerks to his. “We are?”

“Yes.”

“Won’t…won’t somebody see us?”

“Yep. That’s the point.” He reaches down and slaps my ass. Not hard, but enough to make a sharp noise. “Get up. Let’s go. I’ve got reservations at Lloyd’s.”

Lloyd’s. Great. It’s the place everybody in Spada’s organization hangs out when they’re not in the mood for Italian. I’ve been there a couple of times with Sal, and I know it’ll be crawling with syndicate people. It’s also hella expensive and requires formal attire.

Reluctant, but knowing I don’t have much choice, I get out of the bed, pulling a sheet along with me and wrapping myself in it. Nick shakes his head a little, disapproving, but doesn’t make me take it off. “C’mon,” he says, and leads me out of his bedroom and to a room across the hall.

I go in when he gestures for me to precede him. It’s a nice bedroom, smaller than Nick’s room, which we just left, but it’s got a queen-size bed, what looks like a walk-in closet, and a big window that looks out over the city.

“This will be your room,” Nick tells me. “You can sleep here when I don’t need you in my room.”

I nod. It’s nice he wants me to have my own space, but… “Isn’t that a little weird? I mean, if we’re going to get married or whatever?”

“I figure it’ll take some time for us to get used to each other. If you have your own room, you can hide out when you need to be alone.”

Crossing the room, I take a seat on the bed. “That’s nice.

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