I practically scream.
He actually has the audacity to grin at me before he takes another big swig out of the carton. It’s almost like he’s taunting me. Daring me to get riled up.
“That’s disgusting,” I comment more to myself than anything else. I get the distinct impression that this guy does not care one bit what I think.
“I was thirsty,” he says as he sticks the milk carton back into the fridge.
“This kitchen has plenty of glasses, I can assure you. You don’t need to drink out of the carton. Now what am I supposed to do when I want milk?”
He grins. “I can assure you that the milk is just fine.”
“How do I know where your mouth has been?” As soon as the words leave my mouth I immediately regret them.
When I look up at Austin he’s actually biting back a laugh. “I could give you a list. How much time do you have?”
The guy is really starting to irritate me. He reminds me so much of the guys I hated in high school. The ones who were attractive and everyone loved. They acted like they were God’s gift to women. They always acted like they didn’t have a care in the world. And most of them came from wealthy families. They never had to actually work for anything.
This guy is all of that on steroids. A smug, entitled rich guy, who has had the world handed to him on a silver platter.
I cross my arms over my chest and glare at him. “Why did you seem so surprised that I’m engaged to Drew? Don’t think I’m good enough for him?”
He looks me up and down. “I never said that.”
“Then what is it?”
“Have the two of you had sex? With each other?”
I can feel my face heating up. “I don’t think that’s any of your business.”
“I’ll take that as a no. Not that I expected you to say yes. How much is he paying you?”
“Excuse me?”
“To pretend to be his fiancée. How much is he paying you?”
“I…um…I’m insulted that you would even think that.”
He laughs again. “Don’t be. I know my brother. He’ll do anything to be governor of the great state of New Jersey including pretending to have a fiancée. Sorry, darling, I hate to break this to you. But you’re not exactly my brother’s type.”
I feel like I’m going to cry. Austin seems to have a knack of pinpointing my insecurities and using them against me. I do wonder why Drew doesn’t seem to be physically attracted to me at all. Austin seems to know exactly why.
“Why do you say that I’m not Drew’s type? He did ask me to marry him.” I hold up my hand with the ring on it just to prove my point while trying as hard as I can to blink back the tears I can feel forming in my eyes. I don’t want to give this asshole the satisfaction of making me cry.
He looks me up and down again like he’s judging me. “You’re missing a few essential parts of anatomy that by brother can’t live without.”
I glance down at my breasts. I’ve never been large breasted, but I’ve never had anyone insinuate that there was a problem with them before.
I feel like slapping Austin in the face until he says, “I was talking about something a little lower than that. Something that you really can’t do anything about.”
I furrow my brow. Now I’m really puzzled. I have no idea what he’s talking about.
When he leans in so close that I get a whiff of his masculine scent, I’m furious at myself when my body heats in response. The last thing I want it to be attracted to this asshole in any way.
“You’re a beard,” he whispers into my ear.
I have no idea what he’s talking about.
When he catches the puzzled expression on my face he just grins at me. I’d like to slap the smug grin right off his perfectly chiseled face.
“Google it,” he says as he grabs his leather jacket from the stool. “And you may want to be a tad bit nicer to me since we’ll be living together.”
Living together my ass . I don’t want to be on the same planet as Austin Graham let alone in the same house as