Dominic (21 page)

“Are you warm?" Dominic asked when I settled back against him.

I shook my head and held my bad hand to my chest.

"Then why did you-"

"I was coverin' me legs," I mumbled.

Dominic was quiet for a moment. "I'm probably going to regret asking this but why did you cover your legs?"

I blushed and whispered, "'Cause they triple in size when I sit down."

Silence.

I was about to speak when Dominic mumbled, "God save me from girls and their stupid way of thinking."

I gasped making him snort as he nuzzled his nose on my neck. "I happen to think you look fucking gorgeous tonight. I've never seen you wear clothes that actually
fit
you before. I must say, Bronagh, I like it
a lot
."

The tips of my ears felt on fire as I ducked my head making him laugh.

"Bronagh Murphy?" called out a female voice.

I stood up and held onto my cardigan and moved towards the nurse who called my name. I felt Dominic follow me and didn't say anything. I knew I would need someone in there with me, or I would probably pass out.

"Bronagh?" The nurse asked me when I stopped in front of her.

I nodded my head then chewed on my lip when she looked over my shoulder. "Family or partners only-"

"I'm her boyfriend," Dominic cut the woman off.

I blushed while the nurse smiled and nodded her head and gestured me into the triage room. I moved inside and sat on the examination table. The nurse looked at the hand I was cradling and made a face.

"That looks painful."

"It is," I assured her.

"How did this happen?" she asked.

Dominic lowered his head behind her while I shrugged and said, "I punched a lad who told me I was fat and said I needed to go on a diet."

Dominic snapped his head up and stared at me from behind the nurse; I kept a straight face and looked at the nurse. "I don't usually act that way but the lad really hurt me feelin's."

I directed the last part of my sentence at Dominic making him frown.

The nurse shook her head. "I hope you hit the little shite hard enough to bruise. That is a disgustin' thing to say to a person!"

Go nurse!

I nodded my head to her. "I think I hurt him."

"You did," Dominic mouthed to me and rubbed the back of his head, wincing, making me bite my lip so I wouldn't smile.

The nurse went about examining my hand, apologising every time I winced, groaned, and just plain screeched.

"I'll book you in for X-Rays before you can see a doctor. You can tell from the waitin' room that we're pretty busy tonight. Our waitin' time right now is seven hours; it will be another two or three hours after you get seen before you can go home, okay?"

Guess I wouldn't be going to school tomorrow.

"Yeah, that's fine, thank you. Me sister is on her way so she will stay with me-"

"
I'm
staying with you; Branna can argue with me all she wants, but I'm not going anywhere," Dominic cut me off.

I raised my eyebrows at him while the nurse beamed in his direction.

"That's very sweet of you to stay with your girlfriend."

I was about to say Dominic wasn't my boyfriend when he smiled back at the nurse, and I forgot about what I was thinking. His dimples were standing at attention, and I couldn't not look at them.

I came to grips at that moment that his dimples were a huge weakness of mine which was crazy because holes in someone's face shouldn't be so bloody attractive! I continued to look at Dominic while the nurse put my hand and arm in a sling and tied it off around my neck. He was watching what her hands were doing to me for a moment before he looked up at my face and found me looking at him.

I knew I was here because he had ruined my date with Gavin and any chance of a relationship with him, and I was mad about that but as much as I said I hated him, I couldn't force the feeling when it didn't exist. It existed at some stage but not anymore. Sure, he pissed me off something fierce, but I didn't hate him. We didn't see eye to eye on pretty much everything, but his persistence in wanting me was slowly but surely making me overlook the fact that we were probably the worst match. And having him in my life goes against everything I've ever built up about keeping people out. He was a risk and instead of shutting the idea down again, I was actually contemplating on whether to take the risk.

Holy shite.

"What are you thinking about?" Dominic asked me while the nurse was out getting me some painkillers and a slip for me to hold for my X-Ray when my name was called later.

"I'm thinkin' that you're dangerous, and that havin' you in me life would be doin' what Branna always wanted me to do, open up to someone. You're a risk that I'm thinkin' of takin'."

Dominic stared at me for a moment before he stepped forward and moved himself between my legs. "You want me?" he whispered.

I swallowed my pride. "You have to work on not makin' me so mad but yeah, I want you."

He cupped my cheeks with his hands and strummed his thumbs up and down.

"I'm not sayin' I'll be your girlfriend right away, I'm sayin' that I'm open to the idea."

He raised an eyebrow. "So I'm on a trial basis with you?"

I nodded. "Exactly, I just want to feel out how this could work with us before I put a title on us, is that okay with you?"

"Can I kiss you whenever I want?" he asked.

I rolled my eyes at him. "No kissin' in school because I'm not ready to deal with any of that drama, especially after what happened with Destiny, but in private? Sure."

"I'm fine with it then."

With that said, Dominic crushed his mouth to mine and forced his tongue into my mouth, making me gasp and grip his arm with my good hand.

I barely had a chance to kiss him back because suddenly his body and mouth weren't pressed against mine anymore. I opened my eyes and found he was across the room with a female on top of him, swinging her fists down on him.

The female was my sister, and she was beating the shite out of him.

Fuck!

"Are you sure you don't want to press charges, sweetie?"

I shook my head and scrubbed my face with my good hand while the female Garda asked Dominic the same question for the fifth time. She was young, twenty-five at the most, and was smiling and nodding her head at him every time he spoke, then cooing over him like the new nurse was when he winced over the needle digging into him while she stitched the cut under his eye that Branna's ring caused when she socked him.

"He already told you he doesn't want to press charges against me sister,
why
are you being so repetitive?" I asked the Garda, the snarl in my voice not going amiss.

The Garda snapped her gaze to me and glared. "It is me job to ask the victim of attacks these types of questions more than once to make sure they are solid on their decision."

Yeah, sure it was.

I scoffed and asked, "Is it also your job to flirt with said victim while his
girlfriend
is sat right next to him?"

The Garda had the decency to flush while the nurse stitching up Dominic's under eye went deathly quiet and stopped her cooing over him when he made noises of pain.

"Listen here, I wasn't flirtin'-"

"Yeah, you were, but you might as well give it up; he isn't interested in you. Right?" When I looked to Dominic, I found him already watching me, which made my insides jump a little because his gaze was dark, and it was entirely focused on me.

"Right." He grinned just as the nurse finished up his stitches and moved away from him but only by a couple of inches.

I nodded to him then looked back to the Garda. "See?"

The Garda was about to go off on me, but she stopped and gawked as Dominic cleared his throat then stretched his arms over his head, which caused his biceps, triceps, and all his other 'ceps to flex and contract. He was bare chested because Branna ripped his top when she 'attacked' him, and he had to throw it in the bin. I wasn't bothered by this, because he had such a sexy torso that I enjoyed getting the chance to admire it with my eyes.

Only my eyes weren't the sole pair doing the admiring and for the first time ever, I felt extremely jealous and extremely possessive of him. That's why I was pissy with the Garda and nurse; they openly raked their eyes over his body and shamelessly flirted with him while I sat right next to him. They mistakenly took me for his sister at one stage, which was fucked up. Dominic was smoking hot but he wasn't a damn God, I wasn't unworthy of possibly being his girlfriend no matter what anyone thought. He had flaws that his looks didn't cover, and I had been the one turning him down for the past few weeks, so clearly it's not as far-fetched of an idea as these women thought it was.

"Your tattoo is gorgeous," the nurse's voice said breaking me from my thoughts.

The Garda nodded her head in agreement.

I had a feeling I was about to be arrested for slapping both these fools upside the head if they didn't quit while they were ahead.

"Thanks ladies, my
girlfriend
agrees with you both." Dominic smiled and put his left arm around my waist.

Both the women openly frowned at his gesture, and it made me roll my eyes. They looked like they were given a puppy only for it to be taken away again.

"Is he finished here?" I asked the Garda and the nurse.

They both nodded even though I could tell they didn't want to.

"So can we leave then?" I asked, my tone completely snotty.

The Garda cut her eyes to me. "Do you have a problem-"

"Yeah, she does," Dominic cut the Garda off and smiled to her. "She sprained her hand a few hours ago and hasn't had any painkillers yet. We're collecting them from the twenty-four hour chemist on our way home as soon as I'm done here."

The Garda smiled to Dominic again, and I inwardly cursed her. She was clearly crap at her job if it all it took was a good-looking lad to distract her.

"I'll discharge you now," the nurse beamed to Dominic.

I rolled my eyes wishing the nurse who wrapped up my hand earlier was here instead. She was cool and not perverted like this young nurse.

"I'm done here, too, unless you do want to press charges. We can take this down to the station if you do."

I fucking bet she would just love to take him somewhere she had easy access to handcuffs!

"No thank you, I'm set on my decision." Dominic smiled again.

The Garda nodded, said goodbye, and then left the room.

I fumed quietly for a few moments until I felt his eyes staring at me.

"What?" I mumbled without looking at him.

"You're so fucking sexy," he growled and leaned into me, latching his lips onto my neck and sucking.

My body jerked as I jumped up away from him.

"Stop that, anyone could walk in here!" I scowled.

He only grinned at me. "Like I care, you being jealous and possessive of me has me hard as diamond. I fucking love this side of you."

Hard as diamond?

Oh, God!

"Dominic," I gasped as I felt the blood rush up my neck to my cheeks.

He laughed at me. "You're going from sexy as fuck to adorable as hell. You're killing me here!"

I glared at him. "I'm about to kill you if you don't cut this out, I don't like it."

"Why are you crossing your legs then?" he asked me, grinning.

I looked down at myself and inwardly scowled. I was crossing my legs, and it was only then that I noticed the aching pain between my legs. I absentmindedly closed my legs to try and ease the ache, and Dominic noticed.

"Shut up!"

He smiled at me. "If you come over to me, I'll take that ache away and turn it into immense pleasure."

I felt my core throb; the ache was hurting me so bad like it needed to be rubbed away. I squeezed my thighs tighter together, and it made Dominic lick his lips.

"I bet you're wet for me; I can practically feel how hot you are for me from all the way over here," he purred.

I closed my eyes and tried to ignore him and the throbbing.

"Come over to me, baby," he purred again.

I could feel my legs move before my brain registered anything; I opened my eyes when my knees knocked against Dominic's. He was grinning at me as he leaned his head down and brushed his nose against mine.

"What are you feeling right now?
Tell me
, pretty girl."

My breathing got a little heavier as I opened my mouth and said, "I feel hot… and achy."

Dominic nodded like he understood exactly how I was feeling.

"Is it a teasing ache?" he whispered, brushing his lips over mine.

I nodded. "Uh huh."

Dominic sucked my bottom lip into his mouth for a moment, then released it. "Your body knows what it wants and the more you hold back, the more that pretty little clit of yours pulses away as it demands my attention. It wants just my attention, right?"

I felt my knees buckle a little, so I used my good hand to latch onto Dominic's bare shoulder. I squeezed it when his hands came around my waist then drifted south and gripped my behind.

"Why are you doin' this to me? I'll kill you for this when I'm thinkin' clearly," I groaned and kissed him when he slapped my left arse cheek.