Free Mace (Cocky Cage Fighter #4) by Lane Hart Page A

pile of lettuce, and take it to Hailey.
    “You okay?” she asks, catching me off guard when she accepts the to-go box without hesitating, and even mutters a thank you.
    “Yeah, I’m great. Water okay to drink?” I ask. She nods her agreement, so I give her one of the bottles I brought back with me.
    Sitting next to her with my own plate, I watch as she eats the healthy entrée with less hesitation than the burger and fries from earlier. Hopefully this meal will stay down, not that I’ll give her a chance to upchuck.
    After the last bite of lettuce, no dressing, despite the fact that I brought back one of each flavor since I wasn’t sure which she’d prefer, I tempt her to try a bite of my cake.
    “Oh my God,” she mutters around the forkful I feed her. “So damn good! Better than sex.”
    “You’re joking, right?” I ask, gladly handing over my styrofoam container of cake to her before retrieving the other one. I fork my own piece of yellow cake with creamy, tan colored icing into my mouth. It doesn’t look like anything special… “ Fuckkk ,” I groan as I savor the sweetness dissolving on my tongue. I don’t even swallow it before I take another bite, then another. “Not better than sex, but a very close second.”
    “Umm,” Hailey moans with her eyes closed as she slowly keeps eating the slice of heaven. Of course that sound and the look of ecstasy on her face causes my cock to swell. “God, May-Son!” Oh yeah, now I’m hard as a rock. “I don’t know whether to slap you or kiss you for bringin’ this shit back.”
    Despite how turned on I am sitting next to a gorgeous woman on a bed, making sex sounds and cries of pleasure, including my name, I’m concerned that it’s only a matter of minutes before she purges the delicious dessert and flushes it down the toilet. Not gonna happen. I’ll sit on top of her all night if I have to.
    Fuck.
    I barely suppress my groan thinking of what I could do if I was on top of her, holding her down.
    We finish eating, every single crumb of the cake devoured, and then brush our teeth at the double sink in the bathroom with the door open at my insistence.
    Getting ready for bed, I start to undress again. When I unlatch my belt, I make the mistake of glancing over, just as Hailey crawls into bed. Her eyes lock on me, like a tigress getting ready to pounce on her prey. While she may have some deep seeded issues with food, I’m pretty sure she would devour me without a shred of hesitancy. That so doesn’t help my overeager cock. In fact, I have to turn my back to her and reach down to make an adjustment before I turn off the light and climb under the sheets with her less than a foot away.
    Settling my head against the pillow, I exhale a breath of pent up horniness and realize that this will be the first time I’ve only slept in a bed with a woman. In fact, even though I know I could easily say to hell with Linc’s warning and Senn calling dibs to fuck her, I decide that I definitely won’t. That’s right, I want to prove to myself that I’m not controlled by Chubs, who is currently trying his best to sneak out of the dick hole of my boxer briefs. God knows I want her, but Linc’s right, Hailey is too emotionally fragile for a no strings attached fuck fest. She deserves romantic shit, like flowers, fancy dinners and carriage rides, not a man like me who can’t afford to give her any of the above. At least not until I win my next fight. And I…I’m not supposed to fool around with random women. Doing so would be callous and end up hurting the women in my life who I’m not ready to lose.
    “Good night, gorgeous,” I tell her in the darkness.
    “Night, May-Son,” she replies, laying down with her back to me.
    I’m just happy to have gotten her to say my name one last time tonight, even slower than her normal southern drawl since she sounds sleepy.
    I close my eyes and am just about to drift off to sleep when the mattress shifts. “Where are you