Come again?
“I sleep naked,” I said. “I always have and always will.”
“Ye’ll wear pyjamas if you’re to sleep in a bed with me. I’m not backin’ down on this, playboy.”
“Playboy,” I repeated. “Really, kitten?”
“Stop callin’ me that.”
“Nah, I like it. You’re small and vulnerable like a cute little kitten.”
“If kitten is staying, then so is playboy.”
I could handle it. “I’ve been called worse, kitten.”
She huffed. “I want to make it clear that I don’t like ye’ very much.”
She only thought that because I didn’t bend to her will.
“Give it time and you’ll like me plenty.”
She ignored me, and said, “Ye’ must wear pyjamas when you’re in the same bed as me. D’ye understand me?”
I licked my lower lip. “I like you giving me orders.”
“Does that mean you’ll follow them?”
I laughed. “Let’s not get too hasty, kitten.”
Keela’s shoulders slumped. “I’m not backin’ down on this. Wearin’ pyjamas is a condition of mine.”
I regarded her. “Is that so?”
“Yes, it is so.”
Her chin lifted in the air, and I liked how fierce she seemed at that moment.
“Fine, pyjama pants in bed.”
Keela beamed in triumph. “And as for the kissin’ and touchin’ parts of your conditions—we will have to build up to that. I don’t know ye’, and I refuse to get intimate on any level with a stranger even if it is fake.”
I could deal with that. “Okay, that sounds fair.”
“So, you’ll be me pretend boyfriend and escort me to Micah and Jason’s weddin’?
I guffawed at her obvious excitement. “Yeah, kitten. You’ve got yourself a fake man.”
She clapped her hands together. “I can’t wait to see Jason’s face. This is gonna be so feckin’ good!”
She returned to her sit at the table, lifted her cup of tea to her lips, blew on it, took a sip, and groaned as she swallowed the hot liquid. Her eyelids fluttered shut, and that was all it took for my erection to spring to life.
“You make the perfect cuppa tea.”
“All that sugar will rot your teeth.”
“I need this. This is how I stay sane.”
I sat back down, and discreetly adjusted my cock in my shorts, but my attention turned to the doorway when I heard a thumping sound. Keela heard it too, and she stood and walked towards the door and pulled it open without a word. She leaped backwards when Dominic fell forward and crashed onto the ground. I cracked up with laughter as he hit the ground with a resounding thud.
What a dumbass.
“I told ye’ she had super hearin’!” Aideen’s voice shouted from down the hallway.
Dominic cursed under his breath as he pushed himself to his feet.
“Are ye’ okay?” Keela asked him. “Ye’ hit the ground hard.”
“He’s fine. Don’t worry about him. It serves him right for eavesdropping.”
Dominic’s eyes found mine. “I wasn’t eavesdropping. I was coming in to get some water—”
“Explain why you were pressed up against the door and fell when she opened it then?”
He opened his mouth to speak but closed it a second later and settled on glaring at me instead.
“Get your water and leave, little brother. I have things to discuss with my girlfriend.”
Dominic’s eyebrows shot up so high they got lost in his hairline.
“Girlfriend?” he spluttered.
Keela glared at me. “He means fake girlfriend.”
I blew her a kiss. “I’m getting into character, baby.”
“Don’t call me that.”
“Fine,” I mused. “Just kitten then.”
She placed her hands on her hips.
“How about callin’ me Keela since that’s me name?”
Dominic chuckled, and said, “Just call her Keela. I never hear the end of it if I don’t call Bronagh by her name.”
“What do you call her if not ‘er name?” Keela asked.
Dominic gently clocked her chin with his knuckles, and said, “I call her my pretty girl.”
Keela looked like she just about melted into a damn puddle.
“That is the cutest thing I have ever heard in me entire life.”
“Besides Bronagh and her sister, you’re the cutest woman I have ever seen in my entire life.”
I gritted my teeth together and flexed my fingers before I balled my hands into fists. I got up, crossed the room, and put my body in front of Keela’s. Dominic looked at me with bemused eyes.
“Five-second warning to back off or I’m putting you on your ass, little brother.”
“Bro, what the hell has gotten into you? Since when do you threaten me?” he asked me. “Since when do you threaten anybody?”
“Stop flirting with her,” I growled. “I don’t like it.”
“Jesus, Alec, calm down,” Keela said. “He was only messin’ with me, ye’ weirdo.”
Dominic blissfully laughed, and said, “I like her.”
“I like her more and more each time she insults him,” Kane’s deep voice suddenly spoke as he entered the room and headed straight for the fridge.
“Fucking hell ... déjà vu,” Dominic muttered.
I was about to tell both of them to get there asses out of the room when I felt nails gently rake over my back. A shudder rain through my body, and blood rushed to my cock. The erection that fell when Dominic entered the room was back and throbbed. I turned to Keela, pulled her body against mine, and bent down, placing my mouth at her ear. “If you touch my back again, be prepared for a hard fucking, kitten.”