"Not for everyone."
I had a crazy urge to ask him what he meant. If he thought he could control his erections with his mind then he was basically some sort of wizard.
"If you say so."
Just then I heard footsteps running.
Olivia popped her head in the room.
"Lexi, it's your sister."
The blood drained from my face.
"On the phone?"
"No, she's here. In the ER."
I blanched, handing her my tablet.
"She's okay Lexi, it's just a second degree burn."
I ran for the ER, not looking back.
Chapter Five Trent
"How is your sister?"
Lexi glanced up at me from where she was cleaning my wound. That's how I thought of her now. Lexi. Short, sweet and to the point.
It suited her perfectly.
"She's fine, thank you."
"What happened?"
She looked at me again, just for a second, but I could tell something was wrong. She just shook her head and went back to rinsing my wound with saline solution.
I cleared my throat.
"I like your nickname. Lexi. I think I should call you..."
Those brilliant eyes snapped back to mine. Finally, I had her attention. Even angry, she was so fucking beautiful it hurt to look at her.
"Don't say it."
I smirked.
"Sexy Lexi."
She glared at me. I might be bored out of my mind laying here, but when she came in the air positively crackled. Teasing the nurse is the highlight of my day.
Hell, it might be the highlight of my life.
The girl was fun as hell to tease. And way too easy to get a rise out of. She tried to tune me out again and again over the past week. But I wouldn't let her.
No fucking way in hell I was going to let her ignore me.
She kept cleaning my wound, not saying a word. She was above my silly games. I knew it. She had work to do. But seeing her head so close to my groin was putting all sorts of thoughts into my head.
Both of them.
She finished up just as I started to rise. I bent my leg and made a tent with the blankets so she wouldn't notice.
She washed up and started to leave.
"Wait."
"Yes, Mr. Davis?"
"Come on Lexi, call me Trent."
She frowned at me.
"What do you want?"
I grinned at her, letting my eyes travel up and down her body. I mentally undressed her. Again. She stiffened.
She knew exactly what I was doing.
"How about a sponge bath? You can blow dry me afterwards."
She narrowed her eyes at me.
"When was your last bath?"
"Two days ago."
She frowned and checked her tablet.
"I've got to cover the rest of the floor. If I have time I will do it later this afternoon."
I leant back.
"Don't leave me. I'm so bored!"
I knew I was whining but I couldn't help it. She tilted her head to the side. Then she sighed and left. I resigned myself to another hour of staring at the ceiling, imagining what I would do to her if I ever got her out of those scrubs.
She was back in a few minutes with an iPad.
Hers I thought.
She handed it to me, along with a set of headphones.
"Here. Books on tape. About fifty of them."
I took them from her, surprised at her generosity.
She gave me a steely glare.
"Do NOT snoop. I will know."
I nodded, too surprised to even thank her. Of course I was lying. As soon as she left I started to flip through her photos.
There weren't many. A few old photos that looked like they'd been scanned in. A dog. Two pretty girls. A normal looking family.
That must be nice. Having a family to look after you. To protect and love each other.
I hadn't had anyone to look after me.
I shook my head, deciding now was not the time to dwell on the past.
Now was the time to copy her phone number and email address to my phone.
I spent the next hour looking through her surprisingly varied taste in music and literature. She also had a lot of non-fiction as well. Audio books and plain old regular ebooks. She was very well read.
I kept snooping, hoping to find out one thing. Her email was password protected, damn the luck.
I just wanted to know if Nurse Ballbreaker had a boyfriend.
Why I wanted to know, I couldn't tell you. It's not like I was looking to get into a relationship. I just wanted to bang her.
Granted I wanted to bang her a lot, maybe even on the regs.
But a boyfriend wouldn't really stand in my way. It never had before. Fuck, nothing stood in my way when I wanted something. My ride. My house. A girl that caught my eye.
Lexi had done more than catch my eye.
I couldn't explain it but I didn't like the thought of her with another guy. It was crazy, but true. For the first time in my life, I was jealous. And I didn't even know if I had a reason to be jealous.
I snapped a few pictures of her pictures for prosperity. I grinned at my phone. I was now the proud owner of some very unsexy wank material.
Still, I would wank to it, all the same.
I picked a book-something by Tom Clancy, and settled back to listen.
Lexi