“Let’s go somewhere, just for the hell of it.”
“Where?”he asked.“Bali?You’d like Bali.”
“Okay, braggart.You think I’d let you traffic me out of the country?I meant like a hotel.Local.”
“That’s unexciting,” he said and sniffed.“Probably wouldn’t get much for you overseas anyway.”
“It just so happens I have a credit card we can use,” she murmured, stroking a pointed middle finger up his chest.
“Lucky you.”
“Belongs to a guy who just can’t keep it in his pants around me.”
“Bet he’s grateful you give it up so easy.”
“I humor him.”Their eyes met.“There are people at home, and I’ve never had caviar.”
“Oh, it’s going to be one of those weekends?”
“If you play your cards right, maybe.You want to pamper me?”
“I want to fuck you.”
“Then pampering it is.”
“What would you do without me to look after you?”he asked.
Stepping back, she threaded their fingers together to guide him toward the door.“Read more, probably.Maybe broker world peace,” she said, glancing back to show him a smile.“I’ll start looking up hotels, if you do the ‘we’ll let you know’ speech.”
They went out and down the hall to be buzzed through the secure door by reception.“Speech?”he asked, pulling their joined hands across his body.“Check this out.”
Their guide was there, waiting.“Did you—”
“We’ll let you know,” Rourke said without slowing for a beat.
They got outside and back into the car.“That was abrupt.”
“Do you care?”
“No,” she said, retrieving her phone from her purse.“Now about my hotel—”
“I know where we’re going,” he said, revving the engine.
Her phone dropped back into its previous slot.“You do, huh?”
“Yeah, only one place around here worth it if you want five-star.”
“I don’t care if it’s a rent by the hour slut dump,” she said, wriggling deeper into her seat.“I have an itch.”
“Then I guess I have one too.Is it a cream or do I have to take antibiotics?”
That smirk went without an answer, and they drove deeper into the city.
“You never talk about your family.”
“My family?”he asked.“You met my family.Zairn and Rox anyway.You’ll meet the rest of them at the Hope party.Most of them.K2 won’t crawl out of his cave, even for charity.Doesn’t matter though, he hates people.More people talk about being connected to him than actually are.He wouldn’t widen your exposure.You can use his name; he won’t care about that.”Apparently, he’d missed she didn’t know thisK2person’s full name.“Truth is, he spends so much time in the damn mountains, he would never know anyway.”
His friends were one thing.Yes, he cared about them.That was obvious.But she wanted to know more.
