Free Pieces Of You & Me by Pamela Ann Page A

massage the side of my hip while he slowly whispered, lingering around my ear, “No, I like it bare, skin to skin, where I can see everything.”
    Jesus, were we still talking about my feet? I doubted it. “Where’s Jet?” I changed the subject. Not only was he making me nervous, but also Grey was seriously giving me serious discomfort… down there.
    “ Jet’s partying outside. It’s just you and me here. Alone.” He made sure to emphasize the word alone before pulling away from my body.
    Was this a set-up? I was becoming suspicious. “Why did he ask me to come down here then?”
    Grey let my question hang in the air for a little longer before responding to my question with steady voice. “Because I asked him to. I told him I needed to discuss something important, away from Gavin and everyone.”
    “ Why? ”
    “I wanted to see how you’re doing tonight,” he simply said without skipping a beat.
    Was he messing with my brain? Did I hallucinate that he did not acknowledge my existence for the last couple of hours? “ You’re joking, right? ”
    Tiger eyes sharpened on me like lasers. “No. Should I be?”
    Folding my hands underneath my breasts, I directed him a fact, “All night, you did not even say hi or hello. Not fucking once! Now you’re curious to know if I’m doing okay? Are you bipolar?” He sure as hell was a good candidate.
    “No. I made a promise not to give any suspicion to anyone. And since you and I were good at ignoring each other for years, I couldn’t suddenly go up to you and greet you ‘good evening’, could I?” He paused, pressing closer. “If it were up to me, things would be different.”
    I was sure it would be. I’d have a known nametag as one of his “women”. “I’m not going to join your pussy possy.”
    Grey didn’t utter a reply. Instead, he remained calm, observant, staring openly at me. We glared at each other for quite some time before he finally broke the silence. “First try and we failed,” he murmured, cracking a tiny smile. “Epically.”
    He had an infectious smile and I ended up smiling back before laughing at our stupidity. “I didn’t expect any less from us.”
    He was smiling down at me, while I watched the flames from the fireplace play around his face, noting how his sooty lashes framed his gorgeous eyes. When he smiled like this I tend to forget why I hated him so much.
    Entranced and dazzled at his smile, the spell broke when he briefly checked his watch for a quick second before reverting back to me. “Well, this was not how I pictured things to end, but I guess this is goodnight.”
    Wait, what? Goodnight? It’s not even midnight! “Where are you going?” I asked, not wanting for it to end. Not just yet.
    He studied me a moment, pressing his lips together. “I have a race tonight.”
    “Can I come?” I blurted out. Where the freaking fuck did that come from?
    He shook his head while looking at me, thinking, before shaking his head again as he raked his hair with his left hand. “No. It’s too dangerous.”
    Did he think I didn’t know that he always had women with him during these times? I had heard all about it, and I knew tonight was not any different. “Please?” I pleaded, surprising myself that I did in fact want to go and be there with him.
    “People will wonder,” he argued with a straight face.
    “Let them.” Yeah, I truly was losing my bearings here. What else? My pride? Self-respect? Underwear perhaps?
    “Nah.” He looked away, looking torn before eyeing me again with a certain look about him. “I wouldn’t be able to think if you’re there.”
    Biting my bottom lip, I made sure he saw me do that before pleading in a saccharine tone. “I promise to be good.” I surely was flirting with danger.
    Grey groaned before letting out a long breath then groaned again as if pained. “But I don’t want you good. I like you bad, Liv.” He was staring at me with wild eyes. Those lethal tiger pools dropped low and