Debra nodded enthusiastically, pointing at two men standing up. “Yeah, and ya listened to me. See how well my advice worked out for you two?”
The Mayhem woman snorted, cutting me a look. “I still think you should find a sugar daddy.”
“Would you quit with that mess?” Debra huffed.
Something traced the curve of my shoulder, breaking my attention away from the women.
“Ignore ‘em.” It was Dex’s fingertip running over the strap of my bathing suit top. ”Like your bathing suit.” He drew a line down my shoulder blade.
And then he shuffled forward another inch, bringing his lower body even closer to mine. The fingers on my leg tightened, his thighs closing in on mine. Was that a grumble?
His finger made a line back up, slowly, and my stomach fluttered in recognition of his touch. “Eat, baby,” he muttered.
Oh hell. I was still holding the burger in my hand, mid-air after the last bite. I glanced at him out of the corner of my eye and smiled.
I'd maybe chewed three times before two thoughts hit me simultaneously. I was eating a black bean burger because his sistershad found outI was a vegetarian. And Dex's hand was still on my thigh.
Chapter Twenty-Three
“You’re kind of a nerd.”
I shifted on the couch, deepening my cross-legged position on one end to look at Dex better. He was sitting with his ass in the opposite corner in loose basketball shorts, one leg extended straight out so thathis bare footwas just a few inches from nudging my knee. His other foot wasperpendicularto it, and he had a bottle of water squished between him and the couch.
Had I mentioned how attractive Dex’s feet were?
Maybe I’d been expecting athlete’s foot or a serious fungal infection and overgrown toenails to explain why I was so entranced by his long feet and neatly trimmed toenails. Even his freaking Morton’s toe was kind of endearing.
What was wrong with me?
Everything. That was the truth.
After a long afternoon at the lake, in the sun, I didn’t have a doubt my hair was in a million different directions and I might have a slight sunburn on my nose. We'd left after Hannah opened her presents, both of us hugging his mom goodbye while I just waved at his sisters and the other MC members. Neither one of us had talked much after eating—and by eating I meant that I'd thoughtlesslychewedwhile staring at theink-stainedfingers on my thigh the entire time.
“I don’t know if that’s a compliment or an insult,” I told him.
He tossed his head back. Yeah, he was definitely attractive. Smoking hot, level one million attractive. “Babe, you go to the library, you read romance books with a big ass smile on your face. You still say cool, and I just heard you recitin’ each line from the movie.”
“It’s a good movie,” I tried to justify it. I’d seen all of theboy wizard’s moviesat least three times each.
Dex smiled, his smoky, intent gaze smug. “Babe, you’re the cutest fuckin’ nerd I’ve ever met.”
My chest did this thing...I don’t even know how to describe it, it was like a seizure-type thing...for all of a split second before I squashed it down. The cute-ground was somewhere I didn't need to go. No, siree. No way. “You like Firefly. That’s pretty nerdy.” I learned this after going through his DVDs while he made tacos. Another major anomaly in his armor. I mean, seriously? He seemed like the type to try and beat up the nerdy kids that liked those types of shows.
“It’s good,” he shrugged. “But you're still a little dork.”
“You have a Captain America shield tattooed on your chest.” He didn’tneedto know I actually found that incredibly hot. I gave him an obnoxious wink. "You win."
Oh bloody hell. I was flirting, wasn’t I?
“He’s theshit,” he answered simply, completely unfazed by my claims to his nerd-domand the dreamy look I worried had funelled its way onto my heart—and face, unfortunately.
I was full of crap but I wasn't going to do down without at least a fight. “Next thing I know you’re going to tell me you have a comic book collection."
"I do." Without any hesitation, he hooked his thumb to his left. “In my spare bedroom.”
Was he joking? “You’re lying.”
Dex shook his head, returning my earlier smile. When this man was in a good mood...God. It was unfair. Totally, completely unfair to be around him. “Wanna see?”
