Neighbors (Twin Estates #1) by Stylo Fantome Page B

let these stupid boys have any effect on her real life. Her libido, sure, but her career was another thing. She would no longer deny that both men had a pull on her, but she would not let them ruin what she'd built for herself.
    After the design for the cake was finalized and her client had picked out what flavors she wanted, Katya was left alone again. She did a quick inventory on everything she'd need to set up the bakery for the weekend, put in an order for the supplies, then she was finally able to take off her apron again. She was almost out the front door when the phone started ringing. Before she could hit the sidewalk, her coworker was yelling her name.
    “Some client,” the other girl said, holding the phone out. “Said it was important.”
    “This is Katya Tocci,” she said in her professional voice.
    “I should hope so, that's who I asked for.”
    Again, Katya felt like she was going to fall over. Wulf. It hadn't even been twenty-four hours since she'd seen him – was he really already calling her!? He wasn't going to do the standard boy thing and wait three days before getting in touch? It was shocking. She'd already halfway convinced herself that she wouldn't see him again.
    “Wulfric. Hi. What can I do for you?” she finally managed to say.
    “Hmmm, now that's the million dollar question.”
    Seriously, if Katya kept blushing so much, she was going to permanently turn red.
    “Is this about your order?” she guessed, and he chuckled. Actually made a sound of happiness and laughter – another shock. It was deep, rumbling through the phone and going straight to the pleasure center of her brain.
    “No. This Saturday, six o'clock, meet me at Flannery's,” he instructed her. Her head started spinning.
    “You're asking me out on another date?” she asked.
    “I'm telling you to go out with me on Saturday,” he corrected her.
    “Why?”
    “Because you have amazing legs. Six o'clock.”
    The phone line went dead. The disconnected tone buzzed in her ear, but Katya stood there. What in the fuck was going on? Was the universe playing a trick on her? She wakes up that morning determined to rid herself of both men, yet by the end of the day, she'd somehow managed to make dates with both of them.
    You fuck a random stranger one time, and suddenly you've got more men on your hands than you know what to do with. Nice, Katya. Real nice. I am such an idiot .
    On the way home, Katya stopped and got her flowers, then even grabbed pizza. She left all of them on the kitchen table, then locked herself in the bathroom before Tori could get too chatty. A hot bath and some time alone with her thoughts, that's what Katya needed.
    But instead of thinking about what was going on in her personal life, her brain took a different route. She slipped beneath the bubbles and as she closed her eyes, memories from her night with Liam began floating behind her eyelids. Her kiss with Wulf got spliced in, and her brain went wild from there. Would he touch her the way Liam had? Would he be as bold? Maybe even bolder? She smoothed her hands over her thighs and panted in the steamy air.
    Good lord, on top of being an idiot, I'm also now a sex addict.

7
     
    “I need to tell you something.”
    Liam glanced at her over the massive taco he was attempting to shove into his mouth.
    “ Mo morf it, ” he mumbled around his food. Katya frowned at him.
    “You're so gross.”
    “Not what you said the other night,” he teased, then belched. She tried not to gag.
    Liam was unabashedly male. His apartment was a mess, his dishes desperately needed to be done, and his laundry looked like it was trying to escape. He could probably do with a haircut, though she liked the wild and bushy look on him, and he always seemed a day or two behind the shaving train. He was crass and he swore all the time and he was blunt to the extreme.
    She loved it.
    He was so different from any other man she'd allowed herself to associate with – he actually reminded