Unmasked (Revealed #1) Read Free

scarper, but now I was faced with a hulking great pile of hot, angry male, who for some inexplicable reason was turning me on more than I had been in a long time.
    I hadn’t dated for a while. A long while. I’d been too busy with work to even notice men – being a newly qualified teacher does that to you – but apparently right now in a strange house, with an equally strange and irritable man, was the moment that my libido decided to kick back in. Just flipping typical.
    ‘Look, I’ve been up for the last forty-eight hours, I don’t need your sarcasm,’ he informed me in a low, gritty tone, which was so incredibly masculine that it caused goosebumps to rise on my arms and did absolutely nothing to help my lust decrease. Jeez. I really needed to get a grip.
    ‘You’re in my bloody house, who the hell are you?’ Ah, so he was the home owner. That was a marginal relief. As my eyes greedily skimmed over him again I decided I needed to rewrite my earlier speculation about what the owner would be like, because this guy was clearly neither old nor fat. Young, hot, and trim would be more accurate. I’d guess he was older than my twenty-six years though, probably mid-thirties, but not ‘ancient’ old like I’d expected. For some ridiculous reason I nearly found myself telling him about my earlier assumptions, but my inability to reel in my skittering emotions indicated that perhaps now was not the time to push this guy with my runaway mouth.
    Keeping it short and sweet I tried to soften him with a small smile, but his face remained folded in a deep frown, his lips drawn into a thin line and his expression completely unchanged, as if my effort had no effect whatsoever. ‘Sarah’s ill, I’m covering for her. I’m Allie.’
    Nodding once, he raised a hand and rubbed it through his short, dark hair, leaving it ruffled and messy and pulling my gaze to the tightness of his bicep as he moved his arm. Gosh, he was so well built it would almost be criminal not to look. From the lovely taut bulge in his arm, this guy must work out on a daily basis – either that or there were some seriously good genes in his bloodline.
    ‘Well, Allie .’ He pronounced my name sarcastically, as if it were a strange and irritating foreign language, which immediately irked me. ‘As I just said, I’ve been up for the last two days and I really need to sleep, so leave the bloody hoovering and just have a tidy up instead.’ The random attraction I was feeling was somewhat doused by that remark – he spoke as if I had turned the hoover on deliberately to wake him. What a grouchy, gorgeous bastard.
    I might have been suffering from an unnervingly serious case of lust toward this man, but I wasn’t one to lie down and let people walk all over me, and his condescending tone had my annoyance quickly building. Narrowing my eyes at him, I straightened my spine to look as tall as I could. Not that it took me anywhere near his impressive height, but at least it made me feel a bit better. ‘You weren’t even supposed to be here today, so don’t have a go at me for trying to do what I’ve been asked,’ I replied tightly.
    My snarky reply caused a brief flash of surprise to cross his face before he resumed that bloody frown. As hard as I tried to ignore it, I noticed that he was doing that lip-rolling thing again too, and in response I found myself slowly licking my tongue across my own lips. Realising what I was doing, I quickly whipped my tongue back into my mouth and slammed my jaw shut so hard that my teeth made a cracking noise that caused me to wince. What the heck was I doing? This guy was acting like a stuck-up idiot and I was here appreciating his good looks? Regardless of his handsomeness I seriously needed to get a grip!
    ‘Yeah, well, I’m back early and I need to sleep and eat, so just make some food and leave it in the fridge.’ As well as being stuck up he was apparently lacking in manners, so I raised my eyebrows at his rudeness