On Dublin Street The Bonus Material - Samantha Young Page 0,34

Liv would go for. For a start he was blond.

He thought she had thing for dark-haired dudes.

Shrugging that thought off since it was unimportant Nate decided to push her. Once she did this she’d realize how easy it was. It was being scared of the unknown, of rejection, that made a person nervous. Nate wanted her to realize that whether or not this guy gave her his number or rejected her, that it wasn’t the end of the world. Though, he doubted the way she was looking tonight any man would be stupid enough to reject her unless he was already spoken for and loyal.

“Good. Now, go up to the bar to retrieve your drink from Adam, and start flirting with the guy you’ve picked out.”

His girl still looked nervous but he was proud of her for nodding and standing up to do as he’d asked. He watched her make her way across the bar, her round, pert arse swaying from side to side in that tight skirt. Nate sighed and ran a hand through his hair. He needed to get fucking laid, pronto.

Watching her at the bar, he smirked a little when he saw her throw back the whisky Adam had bought her and make a face at the obvious burn. Feeling heat on his face, Nate followed the feeling and his eyes collided with Jo. Hers were narrowed, speculative, and he realized why when she threw a disbelieving look at Liv and then back to him.

No.

Fuck no.

Like he said he didn’t want anyone getting any ideas about him and Liv and stirring shit between them. If anybody messed with his friendship with Liv he’d take them down, whether they happened to be engaged to his childhood friend or not.

Irritated, Nate looked away not only for distraction but to find something to throw Jo off whatever scent she thought she was following.

Almost immediately his attention snagged on a petite blonde with curves in all the right places. She smiled outright at him and he gave her a chin lift as he got to his feet. The blonde immediately made her way over to him and was forward enough to plant herself against him.

She got on her tiptoes in her strappy sexy heels and said in his ear as she rested a hand on his chest, “I’m Georgie.”

Georgie smelled nice, not as nice as Liv, but she was hot and her body language told him he wouldn’t have to work for it.

For some reason, Nate was suddenly bored out of his fucking mind. Disgruntled he looked over at the bar and saw Liv was flirting.

And with the blond guy.

Huh.

He felt a pang of something in his chest.

“Your name?”

Distracted, Nate turned back to the blonde and leaned down to say his name in her ear.

When he pulled back she grinned at him. “Want to get out of here, Nate?”

Nate was not shocked by this and usually not turned off by it. Sure he liked the chase but easy was good, too.

Tonight, easy held no appeal whatsoever. “Sorry, darlin’, here celebrating with some friends,” he lied.

Not at all put off, the blonde opened the little clutch she had tucked under her arm and pulled out a business card. When a strobe light hit it he saw it was for a law firm. She was a solicitor.

“Give me a call some time.” She got on her tiptoes, pressing her chest to his upper body and a kiss to the corner of his mouth.

He gave her a smirk and a nod and headed back to the table, tucking her card into the back pocket of his trousers. Just in case.

Jo and Cam seemed to be deep in conversation, smiling and murmuring to each other in that secret way folks in love did. It was good. It meant Jo’s focus was off him and where his attention was this evening. So as Adam and Ellie engaged him in conversation he got away with casting looks toward the bar to see how Liv was progressing.

The guy was into her.

Unfortunately, he also seemed to be doing all of the talking which meant he was more into himself.

You can do better than this prick, Liv, he thought, irritated.

When he saw her pull her phone out of her bag and hand it to the guy that irritation became full blown agitation. Obviously she wasn’t put off by the prat prattling on (about himself, no doubt).

Then Nate froze completely as the guy handed the phone back to her and used