his nose into her neck and delivering a wet kiss that had her thighs quaking.
Snappy retort ready, Lexi turned her head and looked up at Marc, who was looking back at her with an expression that was so innately male, her mouth went too dry to speak. His cocky posture, the possessive way he draped his arm around her—Marc was all but pissing on her apartment to show Chad exactly where the line was.
“Hey, Chad.” Marc extended his free hand. Chad reciprocated, and Marc used the solid hand-to-hand contact to shake Chad right back out on the porch stoop. “Oh man, I am so sorry. We forgot to call you. Didn’t we?” He looked at Lexi, who shot him a hard glare back.
She didn’t need a man setting her up, didn’t need a man guilting her into a date, and she most certainly did not need a man lying for her. In fact, she didn’t need a man, period.
Lexi opened her mouth to tell them exactly that when Marc’s fingers slid higher, right to the sensitive skin underneath her breast, tickled and then pinched. Lexi gasped and twisted, bringing her hand up to grab his, and her butt flush with his groin. To Chad, it would have looked like he was copping a feel, but she knew there would be a small bruise come tomorrow. The big jerk.
“Sorry, buddy, but Lexi and I are busy today. We have to cancel.”
“We?” Chad took in the possessive way Marc was holding her and how she wasn’t resisting him—yet. He looked as confused as Wingman had when he’d been tossed out of Lexi’s warm bed onto the cold floor. “But it’s Saturday. I’m Mr. Saturday.”
“Yeah,” Marc said, and Lexi could feel his chest puff up and smell the testosterone seeping into the air. “Well, I’m her every day.”
“Her what?”
“My what?” Lexi snapped, turning to face him, and every argument she had stuck in her throat.
Marc wasn’t just standing behind her. He was practically naked. Gone were the shirt and shorts from earlier, and in their place were black boxer-briefs, a bad case of bed head, and a whole lot of naked skin and impressive muscles. One muscle was particularly impressive, but she didn’t know if he was revved up by her or by the battle-of-bigger-dick syndrome. Either way, she found it hard not to lick her lips.
“Her Mr. Every Day.” He spoke as though Lexi wasn’t standing right there. “Meaning if it ends in fucking day, it’s mine, buddy.” And with that Marc slammed the door.
“What was that all about?” she snapped, shoving Marc, who moved a whole half inch. Sure, Chad was a jerk, but she had been handling it.
Marc didn’t answer. He just stood there in his underwear, looking slightly shocked and a whole lot baffled by his own behavior.
Afraid she’d be too tempted to stare at his nakedness, Lexi squinted through the peephole and watched as Chad stormed across the parking lot to his car. He made a big deal of chucking the rose—and kicking it—before getting in and screeching away.
Chad was livid. It kind of made her smile to see him pout and stomp his foot, but Lexi kept her face stern when, hands on hips in her best intimidating pose, she asked, “What was the point of that?”
Laid-back Marc had returned and was scrolling through his phone, not even sparing her a glance. “That you didn’t want to go out with him, that if you did he would spend the day trying to cop a feel, and I don’t share well with others. Especially not my girlfriends.”
“You don’t do girlfriends.”
“I know. Which is why I think this possessive streak of mine is throwing us both a little. That’s okay, we’ll get past this.” He looked up from the phone, an irritating grin on his face.
“Hey, give it back,” Lexi said, realizing that it was her phone he was messing with. She grabbed for it, but he held it high over his head, out of her reach, still clicking away with that stupid grin on his lips. The one that used to drive her insane—still did, but in a totally different way now.
“I’m being serious, Marc.” When he went back to pushing buttons, she faked as though she was giving up, walking away, then spun and jumped for it. Even though she was taller than average, her five eight was useless when paired against his six three. He was also a whole lot faster than she, and snaked his