Chapter One
Roman
Iknow that look. The one coming from the sultry brunette across the room. It’s heat, hunger, and a silent invitation, all rolled into one. She’s made up her mind, and I’m exactly what she wants tonight.
She’s smoking hot, and it’s been too damn long since I’ve had a proper release. Add that to the pressure of managing renovations at all my luxury hotels, and, yeah … I could use the distraction.
I lift the corner of my lips at her, then offer a wink. She bites her lip and smiles.
It appears I’ve found my companion for the evening.
“I hope you’re winking at someone behind me and not coming on to me,” Walker says with a sarcastic smile. “I hate to break it to you, but I don’t swing that way.”
“You’d be lucky to have me.” I grin back at him, then give him the same wink.
Colton chuckles behind his glass of whiskey. “I do remember hearing your dorm room guests agreeing with you a lot back in the day,” he says to me.
I turn my eyebrows up at Walker suggestively, which makes him burst into laughter.
“Get over yourself, dude,” he replies. “You are one cocky motherfucker.”
I shrug my shoulders. “When it’s true, it’s confidence, not cockiness.”
Lincoln looks down at his watch.
“Got somewhere you gotta be?” Sawyer asks with amusement.
“I told Kylie I’d be home by seven,” Lincoln replies.
Dean punches him on the arm. “Dude, you’ve been out with us for an hour. Are we really that boring that you need to rush home to the missus?”
Lincoln and Kylie aren’t married yet, but I’m sure it’s coming soon. He’s the first of the six of us to settle down with a woman and move in with her.
The six of us went to school together at Columbia University here in New York City.
“You’ll understand when you find the right one,” Lincoln says confidently.
I snort at the idea of me finding “the right one.”
Lincoln’s eyes home in on me. “What? You think you’re safe from falling in love?”
“I know I’m safe.”
He looks at me like I have no idea what I’m talking about. Like he’s forgotten exactly what my father did to my mother. There’s no convincing me—he knows that. I’ve learned the hard way not to believe in bullshit.
“We’ll see about that,” Lincoln replies. “Well, you fellas have fun chasing tail tonight. I’m going to go home and have the best sex of my life.”
With that, Lincoln takes off, leaving just the five of us guys behind.
“I guess that’s one benefit of a relationship,” Colton jokes.
“Before I have one too many drinks and forget to ask,” Walker says as he looks at me, “have you heard?”
My forehead furrows. “About what?”
“Eva’s moving back to the city this month.”
I vaguely remember him mentioning his sister’s return a while ago. I didn’t give it much thought. I’ve never met Eva. She’s younger, and she wasn’t around during our college years.