Wild - Jaci Burton Page 0,44

purpose. She offered a smug smile. “Actually, I know exactly where he is.”

“Which is?”

“Craps table. Right over there.” She inclined her head to the outer table, where Mike was standing at the end. Mike looked up at the same instant she gazed in his direction. He winked at her, then threw the dice.

“Ah. Nottingham.”

“Yes.”

“I saw you the other night at the club with him.”

Chad was at the club the other night? She hadn’t seen him, but then again, after the first five minutes she’d been so wrapped up in Mike and Seth she wouldn’t have noticed him if he’d stepped right on her toes. “Really.”

“Yeah. You were with Nottingham. And Seth Jacobs.”

Ah. So he had seen her. She wondered how much he’d seen. A small flame of triumph began to flicker inside her. “So I was. Funny, I didn’t see you there. Then again, I was rather busy with my dates.”

Chad’s eyes widened. “You were there with both of them?”

She punched the button on her machine, ignoring him. “As a matter of fact, I was.”

“Kind of slutty, isn’t it, Abby?”

She didn’t even look away from the blinking lights on the slot machine. “Kind of like the pot calling the kettle black, isn’t it Chad?”

“You used to be such a good girl.”

The disgust in his voice was evident, but he no longer had the power to hurt her. She finally tore her gaze away from the screen in front of her and arched a brow.

“Oh, I’m still a good girl, Chad. A very good girl.”

“I can’t believe how you’ve changed from the sweet girl I married.”

She snorted. “Please. And where did that get me, Chad? I was faithful, I stayed home every night waiting for you. Where were you? Out with another woman, fucking her instead of me. Well, now I’m fucking other men instead of you.” She pressed the cash out button, waited for her ticket to print, and snatched it out of the machine. “And let me tell you, I’m having the best damn sex of my life right now. All those wasted years on a minute man like you. If only I’d known what I was missing.”

She waited for a comeback, but he only stared at her, his face turning red. Then she realized he was speechless. For the first time in her life, she’d rendered the bastard unable to speak. Time to zero in for the kill. “All those girls you fucked while we were married—what did they see in you, anyway?”

He looked like he wanted to strangle her. Triumphant, she waved her ticket in front of his face. “I’d love to stay and chat with you longer, Chad, but I have a life now that doesn’t include you.”

She walked away without looking back, sidling up to Mike and leaning against his shoulder. He threaded an arm around her waist and planted a scorching kiss on her lips.

She hoped Chad was still watching.

“I saw you talking to your ex over there,” Mike said after she broke the kiss. He gathered his chips and stepped away from the table, leading her to the cashier’s booth.

“He’s a prick,” she said, handing the cashier her ticket.

“Give you any trouble?” Mike asked, pocketing the sizable amount of bills the cashier handed him.

Abby handed him back the money she’d won in the slot machine, despite Mike’s attempts to prevent her from doing so. “No trouble at all. I handled him just fine.”

“I figured you could.” He slipped his arm around her and walked outside. He’d parked his Navigator at the end of the parking lot. Isolated, within a semicircle of trees surrounding them, and it was dark. The second they reached his car he whirled her around and pushed her against the door, his mouth descending on hers.

Her breath left her body as he plunged his tongue inside, devouring her lips in a hungry kiss. She reached for his arms, feeling the heat, the lean muscle through his shirt. He parted her legs with his knee, insinuating his thigh between them.

Her body responded with an instantaneous explosion, her pussy moistening, her nipples tightening as they brushed against his chest. She couldn’t help her reaction to him. He was damned overpowering, and she was helpless to do anything but let her body answer.

Did she want him? Hell yes. But while his hands were roaming her body, caressing her breasts, pinching her nipples, making her crazed with desire for him, part of her recognized what she was experiencing was a pure and simple physical