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“I don’t trust you.” She closed the file and looked at me. “Not yet.”
There was a pinch in my heart, but I didn’t show it. I wanted her to trust me. Without trust, there was nothing between us.
I leaned back and asked, “What do you want me to do for you to trust me, Summer?”
She bit her lip, thinking, and looking away. I couldn’t bear it. The sexual tension was suffocating, and all I wanted to do was haul her pretty ass on my lap and kiss her.
“Come to my place,” I blurted without thinking. Ever since I stumbled into her, I had been saying and doing lots of things without thinking.
“Why?”
“We can do anything you want.”
Her brows raised and a twinkle of mischief gleamed in her eyes. “Anything? Just so I can trust you?”
“Yes.”
She tucked a lock behind her ear and slowly nodded. “Okay, fine. I’ll come with you.”
I informed the driver and turned to her. “There will be more pictures of us online.”
“I figured Garett will write an article about us.” She winced. “Heather is going to kill me.”
I frowned. “You’re really scared of this Heather. Who is she?”
Summer shrugged. “She is the only agent I trust. She gave me the idea to host the charity event after the whole orgy debacle.”
I scoffed. “Doing that right after that makes you look more guilty than anything.” Her face dulled, and I continued, “You should have accepted an interview or posted a statement about what had happened. If anyone posts rumors, slap a defamation lawsuit on them.”
“It’s not that easy.”
I titled my head. “You can have my PR and lawyers at your feet. Don’t ask that silly agent of yours for ideas. Come to me.”
Summer didn’t argue for the first time and looked ahead, the file still in her lap. If she signed it, I’d love to do all the filthy things that have been churning in my head. We’d be professionals during our work, even with the fake relationship, but behind the closed doors, I’d make her beg and crawl.
“Oh, fuck, it’s raining,” she said, looking out of the window.
The rain pattered loudly on the roof of the car as the driver weaved through the traffic to the silent road to my house.
I thanked the driver for giving me an open umbrella and asked him to leave early. Summer didn’t wait and was already bouncing out of the car, grinning up at the stormy sky like a kid.
“You’ll get drenched,” I warned her, but she looked so happy that I stayed still, watching her splash around. My heart warmed at the sight of her flushed cheeks and bright eyes.
I snapped out of my thoughts when she called me over to a small alley across the gate of my house. It was dark with barely any light, and I found flashes of tiny gleaming green eyes. Summer was kneeling on the ground, cooing at the bundle of dark fur in her hands.
Her hair was wet, her white blouse was soaked, and I wanted to scold her that she’d get cold, but I couldn’t utter a thing when she looked up at me with the biggest puppy eyes ever and a black cat purring in her arms.
“No,” I said.
“But—”
“I said no, Summer,” I said, ignoring the tiny meows of the scrawny cat.
“He was alone in this tiny box.” Her voice seemed sad as she pointed to the said box.
I leaned down, offering the shade of an umbrella to both of them, and looked at the grubby cloth in the box. My nose flared.
How dare someone leave a cat like this?
