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“Umm…” I glanced up at her, confused.
“We also have green apples and peanut butter, Polly-O cheese sticks, and spicy Cheetos with extra crunchy pickles in the back for you, so let me know if you’d like anything else.”
“Thank you.” I felt my flesh instantly begin to heat. I couldn’t believe he had his team stock his plane with my favorite snacks and drink. “I’ll just take the water for now.”
She smiled and handed it to me. “My name is Janet, and I’m at your service if you need anything.” She excused herself and left while I simply stared at the bottle in my hands.
Don’t show him any emotion, Capri. If you give him an inch, he’ll take a mile.
I didn’t pay him any mind, pretending this didn’t affect me when it couldn’t have been further from the truth. Something inside me suddenly shifted, and I was dragged back to another place and time. The worst part was, I knew he did that on purpose too.
I finally found a parking spot on campus for my first class at Texas University. I was running late and forgot to grab breakfast on my way out the door. My stomach was literally eating itself inside out. With one foot in front of the other, I hauled ass into the auditorium room, and it was full to the brim with students. There wasn’t an empty seat in sight.
“Shit,” I muttered to myself, frantically looking around the room for a vacant desk.
To my luck, I found one in the very back, but the desk appeared to be really old. Hopefully, it wouldn’t break while I was sitting in it. How embarrassing. I didn’t pay any attention to my surroundings as I beelined it to the seat and I was able to sit down before the professor started his lecture.
Why I enrolled for at 7:30 morning class when I hated mornings was beyond me. As soon as I sat down, I realized the legs on the desk were unleveled and it was extremely wobblily. This was going to drive me insane for the next ninety minutes. For a second, I thought about sitting on the floor against the wall instead.
However as soon as the thought crossed my mind, out of nowhere, my desk abruptly moved on its own. I looked down and it was only then that I noticed that the guy sitting next to me, was placing one of his textbooks under the rocky leg to level the table out for me.
“Oh,” I breathed out. “You didn’t have to?—”
He peered up at me and I physically sucked in a breath. Bright blue piercing eyes were suddenly staring up at me and I found it hard to breathe. He was by far the most gorgeous man I’d ever seen.
He smiled, winking at me before sitting upright in his chair again. I sat there for a second, contemplating my next move on how I’d get his name and phone number. This was the first time a guy had this kind of effect on me. For the next few minutes, I just stared intently in front of me, pretending like I was listening to the lecture and not internally freaking out about the gorgeous guy sitting next to me.
I was about to grab my notebook from my backpack when my stomach decided to betray me. It made the loudest grumble from hunger, and I instinctively placed my hand on my belly. I swear I could have died right then and there. I barely had time to register the humiliation, aware that he heard it.
I opened my mouth to say something, anything, but I didn’t have a chance to because he placed a Polly-O cheese stick on my desk with a cherry Hint water beside it. It was almost as if he knew it was my favorite thing to drink and eat.
We locked eyes, and I immediately felt at ease. He wasn’t looking at me with disgust like I thought he would. Instead, there was nothing but amusement in his expression.
Swallowing hard, I mouthed, “Thank you.”
He mouthed back, “You can thank me over dinner.”
It wasn’t just lust that I felt or infatuation, I was so damn smitten with those and that smile. It should be illegal to be that handsome.
From that moment, we were simply inseparable. I never believed in love at first sight until I laid on him.
“Penny for your thoughts?” Elias interrupted, tearing me back to the present.
Except now, he was sitting in front of me, and it was too close to comfort for me. I shook away the memory as he knowingly started at me, and I didn’t give him the satisfaction of it.
I did the only thing I could do in that situation, I lied through my teeth, “I’m just thinking about the podcast you have this evening. You’re going to have to call in from your suite.”
He narrowed his gaze at me, wanting to call me out on my bluff, yet thankfully, he didn’t.
In its place, he voiced, “Mrs. Kyle Vermont wouldn’t have suited you, beauty.”
I didn’t just jerk back, I openly gasped. “How did you know?—”
“I don’t lie to you. I told you yesterday that I know everything about you that matters to me.”
“So what?” I scoffed, feeling unnerved. “You had me followed?”
“I’m not a stalker, Capri.”
