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“Where are we?” I asked, tried to straighten, and looked into…a hotel room?
How out of it had I been exactly?
And how long had he been carrying me?
“Somewhere where we can discuss how this will go from here on out.”
“This?” I asked.
The room looked roomy, nice, and smelled vaguely like him.
“This,” he said while staring down at me. “You and me on this island.”
I grinned at him. “Easy, you put me down, let me charge my phone. I’ll book a flight, and I’ll be out of here in a matter of hours.”
He sighed.
But instead of letting me go, he sat down in a chair—with me sitting sideways on his lap, his arm around me.
“What? This island is apparently not big enough for both of us. And since I didn’t even want to come, and nothing is holding me here, I’m the one leaving.”
He clucked, shook his head, then the phone rang in his pocket.
He shifted me a little, as if I was a doll, not a grown-ass woman, fished his phone out of his pocket, looked at the display, then at me, then took the call.
“She’s with me,” he said, before whoever was on the other side could even usher a question.
I couldn’t really understand the other side, so I straightened.
But Alex tucked his phone between his shoulder and ear, then splayed his free hand across my chest and pushed me back against his arm. What the…?
“She wanted to check out the club, and since it’s late, we’ll stay in the city.”
I narrowed my eyes.
“No need to worry, really. We spent the day together, and she’s just fun to have around. Actually, we decided to act on the chemistry and decided to start dating.”
Chemistry? Dating? Agreed?
Definitely not.
I snapped the phone from his neck and rolled from his lap at the same time. Then I jumped to my feet and crossed the room, all in one, impressively fluent motion.
“Hello?”
“Hey, Fee, Sophie was worried about you.”
Gabe’s voice was low and dark and fraught with big-brotherly displeasure.
“Sorry. I didn’t have my phone, and the two of you were out on your romantic dinner, so…” I was at the door, opening it, when a tattooed hand just above my head shut it in front of my face.
“So, you and Alex are dating? That was fast,” Gabe said.
I turned around and glared at Alex, who hovered practically over me.
“Of course, we’re not?—”
Alex circled my wrist and squeezed with one hand while prying the phone out of my hand with the other.
