Free Destroy You (Destroy #3) by K. D. Carrillo Page B

doors?”
    “You know you can’t resist me much longer, Wildcat,” he taunted and rubbed his hand suggestively up his abdomen. Some of his shirt followed his hand up his chest, revealing the deep V of his muscles by his hips.
    I licked my lips and was lost in images of following that line with my tongue until Trent’s masculine chuckle snapped me back to the moment. “Fine, so you’re kinda sexy. It isn’t like you do much better resisting me.”
    Trent’s eyes darkened to a gunmetal gray. “I can resist any woman at any time, except for you. Remember that before you start strutting your sexy ass around me. I’ll always stop when you ask, but don’t for one second think I won’t take what you offer me. And keep in mind, Wildcat, the moment I get you underneath me, I’m keeping you there.”
    Jeremy laughed. “I’ll join you guys. It’ll be amusing if nothing else.”
    “I live to entertain,” I quipped back.

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 9
     
     
    Trent
     
    I tagged Mel on the way down the mountain back into Ellensburg. Jeremy’s family’s cabin was built up in the woods in Cle Elum, not too far out of town. I pulled the van around the back of the bar and had my employees unload the kegs and other bar supplies I took for the wedding.
    Mel strutted down the alley, huddled inside her black motorcycle jacket. Her black jeans were tight, ripped in several places around the legs, and tucked inside her usual black combat boots. She wore a small T-shirt, also black, sporting the name of my cousin Jordan’s band, Strip.
    Melody would probably have run off to Denver to join his band if my older brother wasn’t their manager. Mel had an impressive set of pipes, and when she sang with Jordan, their voices gathered together in a haunting way. Unfortunately for the band, Mel and my brother Alec had a falling out a couple of years ago and hadn’t spoken since.
    Melody headed straight for Jeremy and bumped him with her shoulder. Apparently, they’d struck up some kind of friendship in their Econ class last summer. Seeing them side by side was shocking; the resemblance really was uncanny.
    Jeremy was around my height, about six foot two. Melody was pretty tall for a woman at around five foot ten. They both had raven-black hair, although Melody always had a few streaks of color in hers. Today she sported lavender highlights. Their faces were similarly shaped, although Jeremy’s was squarer. They had the same full, bow-shaped lips, but the strangest similarity between them was their eyes. I’d always thought Melody’s eyes were unique, ice-blue with a dark navy ring around the outside, but Jeremy’s eyes were the exact same color.
    I leaned down to Toni. “Is it just me or is it weird looking at them?”
    “If I didn’t know he was an only child, I’d swear they were twins,” she agreed.
    The four of us took the back entrance to get to my apartment, and Toni and Melody started searching through my vast DVD collection to find something to watch. Usually, movie night with Toni was just an excuse to get her to lie next to me, but this time we would probably actually watch the movie.
    Jeremy and I moved into the kitchen to make popcorn and grab sodas. “I hope they don’t pick a sappy love story,” he grumbled.
    “I don’t have any of those.”
    “That’s why I brought my own,” Melody chimed from the other room.
    Sighs and giggles erupted in the other room. Jeremy shook his head. “If she tries to make me watch that movie with the guys that become strippers again, I’m going to spam her email with lesbian porn.”
    Unfortunately, I’d taken a large drink of my soda right before Jeremy’s announcement and began to choke. “I can’t believe I’m going to ask this, but you don’t like Channing Tatum?”
    Jeremy rolled his eyes at me. “Of course I do, but that doesn’t mean I like shit movies.”
    “I don’t know what I expected, but you aren’t anything like what I’d imagined,” I