Something Like Hate by Piper Rayne

Author:Piper Rayne [Rayne, Piper]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 16

Miles

The hostess seats us and runs her hand along my shoulder as she leaves. It doesn’t mean anything, but Bryce clocks it and raises her eyebrows at me. I wouldn’t mind her being jealous. At least it would show me where her feelings for me stand.

She must feel the same tension I do when we’re close. Just a brush of her arm, and my dick twitches.

“Thank you for letting us join you, Miles. It’s very nice of you,” her dad says.

“I come here occasionally. They’re good about respecting my privacy. But after that win, I’m happy to have some company.”

Which is true. Cooper said he was hoping to take Ellery to dinner if she finished at the hospital in time, and Damon probably has some hot date who plastered herself to him the minute he walked out of the locker room. I thought about inviting a few of my defense teammates, but I don’t know them that well, and I didn’t want to have to feel “on” tonight.

“You seem like a guy who doesn’t mind being alone,” her dad says.

“I don’t, really, Mr. Burns.”

“Please, call me Seth. And that says something about a man. Especially a guy of your caliber.” He side-eyes Bryce, and she picks up her menu, blocking herself off from our conversation.

“I think people assume professional football players should be all “alpha male” and loud with huge egos who need an entourage surrounding them, but that’s not me.”

“Damon,” Bryce mumbles, and I laugh.

“What, sweetie?” Seth asks his daughter.

“Damon Siska, he’s the classic stereotype of a man who needs his ego stroked. He’s also one of those men who never seems satisfied with the woman he has.”

I can’t see Bryce’s eyes behind her menu, but her dad’s sharp inhale tells me she just shot him with an insult.

Is that where her issues come from? Did her dad cheat on her mom?

“What’s everyone going to order?” I ask to change the conversation. The whole reason I didn’t invite anyone else was that I didn’t want awkward or forced conversation.

“I’m a ribeye guy. How about you?” Seth puts down his menu.

“New York strip for me.”

“Oh, that’s Bryce’s too.”

She glares at me over the menu as if we’re not allowed to have anything in common.

“Want to share?” I ask.

Her eyes bore into mine.

Seth laughs. “If you want to eat tonight, I wouldn’t suggest it. Bryce isn’t one of those salad girls.”

She coughs, but it sounds as though she’s choking on her saliva.

“It wouldn’t be the first time we were fighting over something,” I say.

Her dad laughs harder. “Yeah, my girl can be a little hard on you in her articles, can’t she?”

“That’s putting it mildly. If I didn’t know better, I’d wonder if maybe she was trying to hide the fact that she likes me.”

Bryce’s menu slips from her hands and falls to the floor.

“You okay, sweetie?” her dad asks.

“It just slipped.”

I reach down to grab it, and so does she. She stares at me for a moment and mouths, “Stop it.

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