“I’m not sure why you wanted to drop me off. I have a car.”
I follow Haley through the carpeted halls of the campus building. “I felt like it.”
She peers through a doorway. “Hey, Carter.”
“Haley.” He comes into view.
Surrounded by books and computers and awards, Dr. Christopher Carter is shorter than I expected.
Which makes me inordinately happy.
His gaze drops, and he makes a noise in his throat. “You got engaged?”
“Last week. We’re moving to Dallas in the fall. Carter, this is Jax.”
I step up next to her, and he raises a brow.
“Jax. As in Jax Jamieson,” he says.
I grin. “Yeah. You’ve heard of me, Connor?”
“Carter.”
“Right.” I wrap my arm around her waist.
She checks her phone. “So I sent you the latest for our meeting today. Did you get the code?”
“Yeah.” But that blue gaze is squarely on me, as though he’s sizing me up.
Bring it.
“Does your boyfriend want to stay?”
“Fiancé. But he’s right, I gotta go, Hales. Shooting a clothing ad spot.” I pat my rock-hard abs through my shirt. “It’s hard to keep in shape after thirty, right? But they keep calling.”
“Uh-huh.” The other man shoves his hands in the pockets of his douchey trousers.
“See you tonight.” I turn to Haley, tugging on her waist to bring her lips up to mine.
Her eyebrows shoot up, but she lets me kiss her.
At first.
Then she’s totally into it. She knows it’s bullshit, but she can’t stop her fingers from digging into my biceps. Just like I can’t stop the way holding her has blood rushing to my cock.
Before the situation can get too far out of control, I pull back.
She’s blinking and I’m a little dizzy too, but I keep it together.
Haley’s lips curve like she’s onto me, but she stifles a snort. “See you, Jax.”
“Later, Hales.” I turn for the door.
“Yeah. See you, Jax.”
I lift a hand over my head. “See ya, Connor.”
I shove my hands in my pockets and whistle as I start down the hallway.
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