Hot SEAL, Heartbreaker - Cat Johnson Page 0,17
grabbing his ass.
His brows quirked up and, following her lead, he tightened his arms around her, hauling her even closer against him.
They were pressed together from torso to thigh, so opposite of how she’d planned this pretend relationship to materialize before her relations.
But what shocked her most of all, was the fluttering low in her belly.
“Colin, let’s get you a drink. The bar’s in the living room.” As her sister steered the group away from the kitchen, Alicia realized she was alone again with Brian, but neither one of them moved apart.
They remained close, in the intimate position that was just for show. For her sister and this Colin guy. Even though they were no longer in the room.
“What a great Valentine’s Day party.” Brian grinned, his gaze never wavering from hers.
“Mmm-hmm,” she said, even though in reality she was desperate to leave.
But she wasn’t sure if she wanted to go to get away from her meddling sister, or so she could be alone with Brian.
That was definitely a problem.
Damn. If only she could have sex with him and then walk away, like men did.
Men were very good at walking away. She had first-hand experience with that.
Too bad she couldn’t do same thing.
Could she? Nah . . . She couldn’t. She shouldn’t.
But what if she could?
She felt Brian’s body against her. Hard. Warm.
It would certainly be nice. Just for one night.
“I guess we should head to the living room. Huh?” Brian asked, interrupting her imaginings and internal debate.
“Do you really want to?” she asked, picturing her sister’s suspicious glare.
He chuckled. “Come on. Time to rub our love in their faces.”
“Love?” She lifted her brows. “That’s pushing it.”
“Eh, we’ll play that by ear too.” Grinning, Brian laced his fingers with hers and pulled her toward the doorway. And with that they were holding hands.
Apparently, with Brian, rules were made to be broken.
SIX
Alicia blew out a mumbled string of obscenities worthy of any Brian had ever heard muttered by a brown shirt on the obstacle course during BUD/S.
He’d be lying if he didn’t say he liked a bit of a dirty mouth on a woman. Especially when she cussed as creatively as Alicia just had.
“Something wrong?” he asked.
“Yes,” she hissed as she turned to face him. “Look who just walked in the door.”
Brian raised his gaze, easily looking over Alicia’s head, and the heads of most of the party goers, to see the front door.
Standing there was none other than the dick who couldn’t take no for an answer at McP’s. “Him too? Your sister was really trying to stack the deck tonight with guys for you to choose from, huh?”
“He works with Jason. Maybe he invited him. Is this going to be a problem?” she asked.
“Him? And me?” he asked.
“Mm, hmm.” She nodded.
“No. In fact, I should thank him. It’s because of him that I met you.” Brian reconsidered what he’d originally said as a joke. “You know what? I think I’ll do just that.”
“Wait, what?”
“I’m going to thank him. What was his name? Do you remember?”
“Andrew. But I don’t think that’s a good idea—”
“I do.” Brian gripped Alicia by the shoulders and moved her out of his way.
“But he’s talking to my sister and Jason.”
“Exactly.” Brian couldn’t help his grin.
They’d been there for about an hour now and besides the fun of seeing the shock on her sister’s face when they’d first revealed the relationship, the night had been pretty boring.
His idea was perfect. His being here with Alicia because of that day at McP’s would piss off the dickhead and go a long way to convince her family they were really a couple. And it would liven things up a bit at this shindig.
He might be an actual genius for coming up with this plan.
“I’m really not sure about this—” Alicia skittered behind him.
He paused in his beeline for the doorway and glanced down. Seeing the concern on her face, he said, “I can take him with no problem. If that’s what you’re worried about.”
Her eyes grew comically wide. “You can’t have a fist fight at my sister’s Valentine’s Day party.”
He grinned. “Don’t worry. I was only joking.”
Not really, but . . .
He finally reached the entrance, Alicia right behind him.
The group still stood just inside as Andrew removed his coat.
Brian’s training kicked in as he thought now would be the perfect time to knock the guy out. While his hands were both pinned by the jacket that was half on and half off his arms.
But he wasn’t here