Текст книги "Dominic"

Автор книги: L.A. Casey

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I shrugged. "'kay."

Dominic continued to look at me. "So… what are my limits?"

"Your limits?" I questioned.

"Yeah." He nodded. "What am I allowed to touch? I'm guessing your pussy is off-limits but what about your tits and ass-"

"Dominic!" I shouted and slapped his arm. "Don't be so crude!"

I felt myself turn so red, I could actually feel my cheeks burn.

Dominic tipped his head back and laughed while I covered my face with my hands.

"Babe," he chuckled. "If I had known how much dirty words make you blush, school would have been ten times worse for you."

I growled into my hands making Dominic chuckle. He nuzzled my hands away from my face with his nose until I moved them away. He captured my lips with his and kissed me softly. I lifted my arms around his neck and pulled him down to me, which he did with a little hesitation.

"Limits," he mumbled onto my lips. "I need you to set limits otherwise, I will do everything but actually penetrate you with my cock."

I widened my eyes and sat up straight, pushing Dominic back off me a little.

"No touchin' my private parts, unless I say otherwise," I started.

Dominic groaned and then stated, "That better not mean your ass!"

I rolled my eyes. "I'm fine with you touchin' it because you seem to be an arse lad, but do not grope it, or I will hit you".

Dominic smirked. "I'm all for play fights with you, pretty girl."

I snorted. "Yeah because you're bigger and stronger than me and can pin me easily!"

Dominic only smirked making me shake my head as I began thinking up some other limits for him. "Oh, no touchin' me boobs-"

"Like, at all?"

I snorted and repeated, "Like, at all."

Dominic groaned, turned and pressed his face down into a pillow on my bed making me chuckle.

"You're so dramatic. I have small boobs, you won't be missin' out on much."

Dominic's head shot straight up. "Your tits aren't small; they aren't big but they aren't small, they will fill my hands and that, babe, is fucking good enough for me."

I blushed again and kicked his leg making him hiss then snort as he crawled back over to me.

"Okay, is that all I'm not allowed do or is there more?" he asked.

I couldn't think of anything else so I shrugged.

"That's it for now, I'll let you know when I think of more."

"Bitch," Dominic growled making me grin.

He kissed me again, and I kissed him back. This continued for a few minutes until I became so relaxed that I remembered how tired I was.

"I'm so tired," I murmured into Dominic's mouth.

He paused, pulled back a little, and just looked down at me while he panted. "I've got a raging hard on and kissing you is making it worse but I can't seem to stop. There is a battle going on in my head right now because I want to fuck you so bad, but I can't and you're simply… tired? Tell me I made you wet or my ego will be seriously wounded!"

Oh, my God.

I shifted and tried to rub my legs together to ease the ache that was between them, but Dominic wouldn't let me and stopped me when I tried to turn from him.

"I made you wet?" he asked, hopeful.

He knows he did.

"Wet and achy, happy now?" I snapped.

Dominic's full blown smile indicated he was very happy with the knowledge of what he could do to me with a simple kiss.

"Let's get under your covers-"

"Fuck you!" I snapped.

Dominic laughed as he raised his hands up. "So we can sleep. Just sleep, I promise."

I glared at him. "Normal couples should be together a while before they sleep together."

Dominic smirked and he pulled the covers from under me and pulled them over the pair of us while he pulled me into his body and snuggled against me.

"We aren't a normal couple, pretty girl," he whispered into my ear sending shivers down my spine.

I sighed and closed my eyes, nestled against him, really liking how I fit against his hard body. I couldn't argue with him, for once. We literally just became a couple but anyone with a brain could tell we weren't normal. We had a lustful attraction towards one another. We're pretty much getting together and hoping for the best, we're so far from normal.

"Hello there, beautiful."

I groaned as I crossed into the entrance of school. I looked up and noticed Dominic walk towards me while Damien leaned against the wall next to the main hallway that led to our registration class.

My heart hammered just seeing him, but I tried to downplay my reaction to him so I didn't appear pathetic.

"It's too early, don't start," I stated making Damien snort and Dominic grin as he continued to walk towards me.

I felt the eyes of students who were already in school fall upon us, and it made me stop walking and focus on Dominic.

"I don't like attention and you're gainin' us a lot of it, so stop!" I hissed when he was mere feet away from me.

He just grinned at me and pulled me into his arms when he was close enough to me to do so.

"I missed you," he murmured before dipping his head to kiss me.

I actually heard gasps from girls that could see us, and I found it very dramatic and sort of staged. It was like in the films where a lad kissed a girl that everyone liked, and they got all jealous and pissy about it and pretty much wanted to stab the girl to death and take her place.

"Dominic," I groaned into his mouth making him smile.

He pecked my lips a couple of times before he pulled his head back. "Say 'I missed you too, Nico'."

He was going to have to give up on getting me to call him Nico, it just wasn't going to happen.

I gave him a look. "I missed you too, Dominic."

He smiled and nibbled my bottom lip lightly. "Did you really?"

My hammering heart was indication that I did, and I knew he wanted me to tell him that. I was gathering that he liked hearing those type of things.

"Yeah, I woke up, and you were gone." I frowned.

He continued to smile at me. "Branna made me leave after you fell asleep."

I sighed. "I like sleepin' with you, it makes me feel safe."

Dominic rubbed his thumbs across my cheeks as he looked into my eyes, I felt myself blush, but I didn't look away because we were having a moment. "I make you feel safe?" he murmured.

I nodded my head. "You do, I don't know what you're doin' to me but me heart is hammerin' against me chest right now just bein' with you," I whispered.

He pulled me tighter to him and brushed a few strands of hair behind my ear. "Keep that sweet talking up and I will be an emotional mess declaring my undying love for you before we even get to class."

His sense of humour didn't ruin our moment, it only added some flare to it.

"That won't do it for me, you have to take a page out of Heath Ledger's book and serenade me in front of the whole school."

Dominic chuckled and beamed down at me. "You know I will do that without hesitation."

I knew he would, he wasn't afraid of anything, humiliation being one of those things.

I snorted and teased. "It has to be a Justin Bieber or One Direction song though, none of the old school stuff."

He snorted and muttered, "Typical, you little bitch," before leaning his head down and kissing me again.

"Hey, break it up lovebirds, there is no PDA on school grounds!" a teacher shouted.

I was like a fish out of water and tried to jump away from Dominic, but he laughed and just pulled his head back from me but still held me tight.

"Sir, don't be a cock block," Dominic said, making the students laugh. The teacher rolled his eyes, and I turned multiple shades of red.

"I could kill you!" I growled to him and got out of his hold, moving around him and walking towards the main doors.

"See what you did, sir? Put me in the dog house!"

The more people laughed at him, the more I wanted to pummel the arsehole.

"Your brother is an eejit," I said as I passed Damien.

"Tell me about it," he snorted and followed me through the main doors.

"Bronagh, wait!" Dominic laughed as he jogged after Damien and me.

I didn't stop until I was in our registration class and sat at my desk.

"Leave her alone, it's too early for her to put up with you," I heard Damien say.

Blond twin was amazing!

"Amen," I said making him laugh.

Dominic hit his brother and moved over to my desk. "Can I sit next to you?" he asked.

I felt bad because I wanted to refuse. I mean, okay, we were together now, but this was going to take some getting used to, and him kissing and wanting to be near me all the time now wasn't taking things slow. But I shrugged at him anyway because he looked so good today, and I wanted to feel him close to me. He looked good everyday but today he was delicious. He had on his school uniform like always but he had on a grey beanie and a grey zipped hoodie over his uniform jumper. It was hardly a fashion statement, but he looked hot, really hot.

"Sure," I replied as I took off my bag and put it under my desk.

Dominic pulled out the chair next to me and moved it a little closer to my chair and then put his arm around the back of my chair and looked at me.

I pulled a face at him. "Stopping lookin' at me you creep."

Dominic snorted, leaned in, and kissed my cheek. "You look gorgeous."

My cheeks heated, and he cooed, making me hiss and shrug away from him.

"Stop tryin' to embarrass me," I muttered.

He kissed the side of my head. "I'm not trying to, I promise. I'm just telling you the truth."

I sighed, he was such a charmer.

"Well, thank you, you look good too," I murmured.

"Just good?" he scoffed making me snort.

"Okay, hot?"

"Better." He grinned down at me as he kissed my face again.

He pulled back after a moment then turned a little to talk to Damien, who was sitting in his seat at the back row, tapping on the screen of his phone. I took out my iTouch and was about to put on a song when I looked at the camera app.

I had the sudden urge to have a photo of Dominic or me and Dominic on my iTouch, and it embarrassed me because he probably would think I was a child wanting to get a picture with him. I forced myself not to care though; I mean, he was my boyfriend, and if I wanted a picture with him then I could damn well get one!

"Dominic?" I muttered as all traces of bravery left my body in one breath.

"Hmm?" he murmured, turning back to me.

"I want a picture of us so will you get in one with me?" I asked very fast and avoided all eye contact with him.

I could sense his smile though when he said, "I'm ready."

I looked up and couldn't help but smile, because he looked so happy. I leaned into him, flipped the camera on my iTouch and held in out in front of us. Dominic put his arm around my waist and pressed his cheek down to mine and smiled. Both his dimples popped up, and it made me sigh; he was so gorgeous!

I smiled as well, looking at the camera, and tapped on the screen. When the picture saved and showed up on the screen I wanted to gush because we actually looked like a normal teenage couple – only Dominic had stitches and a black eye – and it made me so happy.

"I love it!" I stated.

Dominic chuckled and kissed my cheek. "Me too, but I want one of just you."

I looked over at him and watched him take out his iPhone, unlock it, open the camera app, and aim it in my direction.

"Will I smile with or without showing my teeth?" I asked.

He laughed. "With your teeth showing, you have tiny dimples on your cheeks when you smile that way."

I rolled my eyes. "Yours are dimples, mine are just big pores."

He snorted. "Just smile, smartass."

I did, and I looked directly into the camera lens as he took the picture.

"Beautiful," he smiled when he looked at the picture then turned and showed it to me.

I grimaced. "My eyes are too big and my ears stick out."

Dominic looked at me blankly. "You're stupid."

"You are!" I retorted, angrily.

He laughed. "You look beautiful, stop picking out things that you think are flaws."

I mimicked him making him chuckle as he tapped on the screen of his phone then turned it to me. I blushed; he made me his wallpaper and lock screen photo.

I already did the same with our picture on my iTouch and smiled; I looked back to Damien then who was still messing on his phone.

"Damien?"

"Hmm?" He looked up at me.

"Want to get in a picture with me?" I asked, smiling.

"Only if you sit on my lap," he smirked.

"Bro," Dominic growled in warning.

I snorted at Dominic growling at his twin and got up. "Okay," I said and moved towards Damien.

"Bronagh!" Dominic snapped.

"He is your brother, your twin brother, he won't slip a hand to feel me arse."

"He would cop a feel; he is worse than me when it comes to that shit," Dominic snapped, still sat at my desk.

Damien grinned at me as he patted his left leg; I snorted and sat on him, then held my iTouch out and put my arm around his shoulder.

"Smile," I beamed, smiling then laughing when Damien hand found its way to my arse.

"Sorry, thought that was your hip," Damien snorted.

The picture I took was of Damien, smiling, and me laughing with my eyes closed. We took another one then another, because Damien said he wanted loads of them just to piss Dominic off.

"Okay, that's enough picture time. Get off my brother now, please," Dominic's voice cut through my and Damien's chuckling.

I laughed as I got up and moved back over to Dominic, who pulled me onto his lap and glared at his brother.

"Stop looking at me like that, she is practically my sis-in-law now. I'm not trying anything, now or ever, even though she is hot."

I gasped. "We just started goin' out, don't use the words 'in-law' around me!"

Dominic and Damien laughed while I grunted and scrambled back to my seat.

"Do you have a Facebook profile?" Dominic randomly asked when I settled into my seat.

"No, why?" I asked, curiously.

He shrugged. "I was going to add you as a friend if you did."

I snorted. "I'll make one later, and you can add me, okay?"

He grinned. "You can put that picture of us as your profile picture."

I rolled my eyes playfully. "Okay, sure."

"And you can mark yourself as being in a relationship with me."

I looked to him with a raised eyebrow. "When did you turn into a bitch?"

Dominic cocked an eyebrow in question.

"You're actin' like a girl, wanting to add me on Facebook and change your relationship status," I snorted.

"Whatever, fuck you," he muttered making me laugh just as some of our classmates entered the class.

Alannah was among them and when she spotted Dominic sitting next to me, she beamed and quickly moved to take his old seat next to his brother.

"Hey, good-looking." Damien grinned when she sat down; he pocketed his phone and gave her his full attention.

"Hey," she smiled, her cheeks flushing red.

I snorted at her blushing cheeks and how she played with her hair as they talked. She did that a lot around him.

"What are you snorting at, Miss Piggy?" Dominic asked me poking my sides with his finger.

"The fact that girls act like complete and total fools when they talk to you or your brother."

He put his arm around me and kissed my temple. "We're the heartthrobs of this school. I'd be offended if girls didn't have a crush on me or Dame."

I scoffed. "You're a vain piece of-"

"I'm kidding!" Dominic cut me off, laughing.

I rolled my eyes and folded my arms across my chest and turned forward.

"Want to go see a movie later?" Dominic asked as more students came into the room.

I didn't look at him as I asked, "On a date?"

"Yeah."

"To see what?" I questioned, turning to look at him.

If he said The Mortal Instruments, I was going to cringe.

He shrugged, uncaring. "As long as it's not a romance or chick flick type of thing, I don't care."

I thought about what films were out and then gasped. "The new Fast & Furious film, definitely that one!"

Dominic chuckled. "Good choice, baby."

I smiled proudly but stopped when I noticed students in my class were looking at me.

"She can smile," I heard someone say.

"Nico, did you break Bronagh? 'Cause she is laughin' and lettin' someone sit beside her, and that for her, is just… weird." Robert Moore, fellow classmate, said to Dominic.

Dominic snorted, and I wanted to punch him badly. I know no one was making fun of me, but seeing them so shocked that I could actually be social was embarrassing.

"I didn't break her, she is perfectly fine. She is allowed to sit next to her boyfriend, right?"

"Boyfriend?" the class chorused.

Damien's laugh stuck out like a sore thumb down the back of the class, and it made me was to slap the eejit.

"Oh, my God," I grumbled and looked down.

"You deserve a medal, man. You did the impossible, you cracked Bronagh Murphy," Robert said in awe.

I scoffed, now he was just being ridiculous. I wasn't like some sort of safe that no one could get into – wait, crap, for a time that's exactly what I was. Dominic was the only guy to ever get an attempt at unlocking me! The fact that I just realised Robert was right, and Dominic did the impossible of getting through to me, made me feel sick. I've never cared for anyone other than Branna and my parents but now… now I felt like Dominic was climbing his way up the ladder and onto the list.

Fuck, I even liked being around Damien and Alec and Kane and Ryder when I saw them. It wouldn't be long before I got used to having them in my life and then I would obviously start caring for each of them more than I already did. This was unknown territory for me, and I wasn't going to lie, it was scaring the bejesus out of me.

"Thanks… I think," Dominic's voice pulled me from my thoughts so I turned my attention to him. He then snorted when he looked at me and saw my face.

"Why do you look you've seen a ghost?" he asked me.

I moved into him, put my face into his neck and my arms around his waist. We had only started officially dating yesterday so this was the first time I ever freely did this. Even when we weren't going out he was the one who would touch me first, so this was one for the record books.

"Hey," Dominic murmured into my hair when he lowered his head to mine. "Are you okay?"

I nodded and turned my head to look up at him. "Robert is right, you're the first person to ever get this far with me and to be honest, the reality that you managed to set up camp with me is freakin' me out!"

Dominic's body vibrated as he chuckled. "Baby, this is only the beginning for us. Give it time, and once you're used to all this, you will just accept that you're mine and you will be happy. I guarantee it."

I licked my now dry lips making Dominic lowly growl at me, which I still found odd that he could make noises like that seem so hot.

"I'm yours?" I mumbled, still in awe that this beautiful person wanted me when he could have any girl he wanted.

Dominic smiled at me and kissed the tip of my nose then winked as he said, "You've always been mine, pretty girl. You just didn't know it."

"The last time I saw you in this house was when you were stating that you were picturing Damien when you were kissing on Dominic in his room," Alec said to me, teasing playfully.

I flushed and murmured, "I was here at the party after Dominic's fight a few weeks ago."

Alec smiled at me, his eyes gleaming. "That's right, I actually forgot about that. So the last time you were here you were rejecting my little brother when he asked you to be his girlfriend?"

I flushed a deeper shade of red which made Alec laugh.

"Leave her alone," Dominic snorted and put his arm around my shoulders giving me a squeeze before he went back to eating his dinner.

I was currently sitting at Dominic's kitchen table with all his brothers and Branna while we ate dinner. It was a little surreal; they were all huge, and it made me feel like Branna and I were dining with giants.

I was pretty much toying with the steak and potatoes on my plate. I was hungry before I got here, but now that I was here, I just couldn't stomach the food. Dominic and I had only been dating a few days; we went on our first date to the cinema a few days ago and now, all of a sudden, we're having family dinner. It was all happening extremely fast and to be honest, it was really freaking me out.

I licked my lips and sat back a little, looking around the table with wild eyes until my eyes landed on Branna's. She was looking directly at me.

"Bronagh, come talk with me for a minute in the hall."

I practically jumped up from the chair, and all but ran out into the hall where I automatically moved towards the hall door. Now that I saw an exit I just wanted to bail.

"Alec, you upset her!" I heard Damien's voice growl.

He didn't upset me; I knew he was only teasing me. I wasn't upset at all; I was just feeling a little overwhelmed with all the new things that dating Dominic introduced into my life.

"Look at me," I heard Branna's voice say from behind me.

I turned around and looked at her and blew out a breath. "I'm sorry, I'm tryin', I swear that I am, but it just feels weird. All of us havin' dinner and actin' like a big happy family; it's hard to break from the habit of just being with you all the time. I… I don't know if I like sharin' you and being social, and that makes me a horrible sister and a loser."

I didn't realise I was crying until I felt Branna's arm around me and her voice softly shushing me.

"To be honest with you, Bee, this is takin' some gettin' used to for me, as well. There are times when I just want to be with you after I get home from work or school, and that's normal. For a long time it was just me and you, but I do think we're tryin' to break from that habit too fast. So what do you say we go out tomorrow, just the two of us, for a girls' day? We can go see a film, get some new clothes and get dinner, then go home and just chill."

I felt the weight of the world drop off my shoulders as she finished speaking, she was feeling this too. The new people in our lives were changing things, and I wasn't a freak for thinking it was weird that I felt like I was living someone else's life all of a sudden.

"That sounds perfect." I nodded.

Branna gave me another hug, and when we separated Dominic was next to us.

"Let's go up to my room, we can relax," he said as took my hand.

Branna smiled as I went up the stairs with him before heading back into the kitchen to the rest of the brothers.

"I hate stairs," I grumbled breathlessly when we reached the top floor making Dominic snort.

When we entered his bedroom I suddenly became extremely shy and self-conscious as I folded my arms across my chest. The last time I was here was at the party, and we were kissing on his bed.

"Why are you blushing?" Dominic smiled down when he rounded on me after closing his bedroom door.

I looked down and murmured, "I'm not."

He laughed. "You're adorable, pretty girl."

I inwardly rolled my eyes.

He unfolded my arms and led me across the room to his bed. "What movie do you want to watch? I have Netflix, so we have a lot of options."

I watched Dominic switch on his television and his Xbox before he closed the curtains, covering the room in darkness. The only light was that of the television so when I stepped forward, I stumbled over something and crashed into Dominic, which sent us to the bed; I was fuming.

"Someone is eager to get me into bed," Dominic teased as I sat upwards.

I was half on his body and was pressed against his face, and I couldn't push up and support myself 'cause my bad hand was under me so when I looked at Dominic's smiling face, I glared. "This is your fault, I tripped-"

"-and fell for me? Awe, babe!"

I snapped my teeth at him and tried to bite him, which made him screech like a girl. Which, of course, sent me into a fit of laughter. Dominic smiled at me for a few moments, watching me laugh before grabbing my shoulders and flipping me over.

I gasped when he straddled my hips and pinned my good arm above my head.

"I like you like this." He smiled.

I raised an eyebrow. "Like what?"

"At my mercy." He grinned devilishly.

I gave him a warning look. "Don't even think of tryin' to seduce me, you aren't gettin' into me knickers."

He groaned, as he leaned forward, pressing his body weight down on me.

"Dominic," I rasped, "can't… breathe."

He sat up off me and glared down on me. "I weigh one hundred eighty-eight pounds not four hundred, bitch."

I laughed as I tried to get my breath back. "I'm one forty-eight, so you just added forty extra pounds than I'm used too; that's all."

His gaze travelled down my body and stopped at my belly where he was straddling me. "You don't look like you weigh in the one forties."

I shrugged. "I'm pear shaped, carrying the majority of me weight below my belly. I'm sure you've heard Jason call me lard arse or thunder thighs since you started school."

Dominic's lips straightened in a tight, grim line. "That dick wouldn't know a woman's body from a girls, so his opinion is irrelevant."

I snorted. "I do have a big arse though-"

"A sexy phat ass is what you have," he cut me off.

I rolled my eyes. "I'm not gettin' into this argument with you again. I still have a headache from that day in Dunnes Stores where we engaged in a battle of words, verbal assault if you wish to say-"

"And physical. You hit me, remember?"

I growled. "You put your arms around me and tried to take my cookies! A judge would understand that, and thank me for not doin' further damage!"

Dominic started laughing, and it lightened my mood almost instantly.

"I really like you, pretty girl," Dominic beamed as he rolled off me making me instantly miss the feel of his body on mine.

I sat up, kicked off my shoes, crossed my legs, and glared at him as he leaned back on his pillow with his hands laced together across the back of his head, making his biceps stand at attention.

I swallowed and avoided looking directly at them.

"I would hope you like me, being a couple wouldn't work otherwise."

Dominic grinned. "No, I mean I really like you. I need you to be a part of my daily routine for me to feel good now. Everything I do centres around you."

I felt my heart constrict. "Dominic, we're only goin' out a few days-"

"So? I don't believe in all the bullshit about it taking a lot of time to build a connection. I already connect with you on a deep level, pretty girl."

I let his words sink in, and I smiled. "You know I might be the last girl you ever kiss or have sex with, when we get to the sex part I mean."

Dominic winked. "You will be the last girl I kiss and have sex with."

I snorted. "Because you know I will murder you if you stray away?"

Dominic playfully rolled his eyes shoved me a little with his leg and muttered, "Smartass."

I snorted again. "It's smartarse, not smartass."

Dominic smirked. "Babe, do you really want to get into what words should be pronounced what way? Because you don't even pronounce half of your words correctly. The 'th' sound doesn't exist over here!"

I gasped. "It does too!"

It didn't, but I wasn't about to bow down and say Dominic was right.

Dominic smiled at me. "Say 'the'."

I glared at him and said the word in question.

Dominic burst out laughing. "See? You put a 'D' where the 'th' should be."

I glared at him. "Yeah, well, you sound like… a ghetto person sometimes."

Dominic snorted, "I'm from New York; it's not really a surprise if I sound like that."

I moved closer to him until I was sat directly next to him; he removed one hand from behind his head and brought it around to my back where he lazily stroked up and down making me shiver.

"What's New York like? I wanna go there someday, do the whole tourist thing."

Dominic smiled at me. "It's a beautiful city but pretty chaotic. I've lived in the city my entire life, and that's why I like it here so much. We live on the side of the mountain; I mean, how awesome is the view we get to see every day?"

I shrugged. "I've seen that view every day for me entire life, and while it is beautiful, I'd still like to visit New York. Not to live or anythin', just to tour it. I'll live here forever; I'm a small town girl at heart and always will be."

Dominic smirked. "Well, what do you know? I got my fortune told when I was sixteen and the lady said I would find me a nice small town Irish girl."

I blushed and looked away from him. "Stop makin' things up to embarrass me, you eejit."

Dominic chuckled.

I was quiet for a moment until I looked around Dominic's room and noticed how gorgeous it was; his entire house was beautiful. I remembered thinking his family had to be rich in order to live here in Upton back when I first came here, and I now wondered how they could afford it.

"Dominic?" I murmured.

"Hmmm?"

"What do your brothers do for work?" I asked.

He was silent for a moment. "We have a family business but I don't really want to talk about it. It's boring and not important."

I frowned but said, "Okay."

Dominic then used the hand on my back to reach around and grip my waist so he could pull me down next to him. I settled beside him even though I was stiff as a board.

"Relax, I may want to tear your clothes off but I won't… unless you ask me to."

I slapped Dominic's chest making him yelp and me laugh.

"Oh, shut up! You get kicked around the fightin' circle at Darkness; my slaps don't hurt!"

Dominic kissed the crown of my head while rubbing where I hit him with my hand. "Firstly, I don't get kicked around the circle, I do the kicking around, and-"

"You do get hurt a lot though," I cut him off with a grin.

Dominic raised an eyebrow at me. "I get bruises here and there, but they can't be avoided. I don't care how good of a fighter you are, you never leave a circle without some sort of swelling and bruising. Anyone who tells you different is lying to make themselves look better than they are."

I rolled my eyes at him when he poked my side. "Anyway, I could be weak as hell and still pin your tiny self."

I barked with laughter and sat upright, looking down at him. "I'm not small-"

"You weigh forty pounds less than me and you're a foot shorter. You're a tiny thing, pretty girl."

I glared at him. "I'm not a whole foot shorter-"

"Branna said you're five foot three. I'm six foot three, so that is a whole foot," Dominic cut me off with a grin.

I shook my head and stared at him. "You're really six foot three?"

Dominic nodded, and I let out a puffy breath of air. "Lads grow until they're twenty-one, you're eighteen… what if you get even taller?"

Dominic laughed. "The tallest I'll get to be is six foot four. Alec is six foot four and so are Ryder and Kane. Dame is an inch shorter than me at six foot two."