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Chapter Five
Scarlett
I couldn’t get Evan out of my mind. Everything about him screamed sex appeal, and I wanted him. I wanted him to fuck me. The way he’d been with me last night… I shivered just thinking about it. He’d been so forward, so demanding. It had made me wet, aroused all the way down to my core.
We would have fucked if it hadn’t been for Lily. Her arrival had been such a close call, it had sucked the mood right out of the room. At least, for me. Evan had looked as ready to fuck as ever after she’d left, but I couldn’t just turn it on again like that.
Not with a stranger.
Of course, Evan wasn’t exactly a stranger. I had known him for as long as I could remember. But he’d always been a sort of father figure, not a lover. Even if I’d fantasized about him so many times. I’d seen that as the thoughts of a dirty school girl–nothing that would manifest itself.
All that had changed during the past few days, and I saw him in a different light now.
I wanted him differently now.
Which was why, af
ter my coffee with Lily, I called Evan and asked him if I could come over to his place to speak to him.
I wasn’t planning on speaking much. I was worried Lily would show up again. I couldn’t do a scare two nights in a row. Evan was still my best friend’s dad, and if she found out what we were doing, she would lose her shit. I doubted she would be okay with me sleeping with her dad, let alone knowing I would carry his child.
I pushed the thoughts away in the cab on the way to Evan’s place. The mansion was spectacular. Last night, I hadn’t been able to take in much of it. I’d had other things on my mind. Today, I had time to look at the place as I walked up to the front door.
Lily had grown up in a different house–the Burkes had stayed a couple of blocks to the North in a home that had been suited for sleepovers and movie nights and pool parties. This place was something else. It was a bachelor pad on steroids.
The front door was double volume with stained glass on either side and big golden handles. I pulled the chain and a doorbell sounded like it belonged to a cathedral instead.
It didn’t take very long before Evan opened the door with a grin.
“I expected a butler,” I said.
“I sent the help home, today. I wanted to give us the chance to be alone.”
I smiled. “Your doorbell is fancy,” I said.
“That hasn’t been used in years,” he said.
“What do you have it for, then?”
He shrugged. “With phone calls and texts, I always know when people arrive.”
He stepped to the side and let me in. The entrance hall was just as spectacular as the front door. White walls stretched up to a high ceiling with windows at the top, letting in light without sacrificing privacy. A staircase led to a second floor on the right, and the left was covered with a large abstract painting.
“This place is great,” I said.
“Come through to the bar,” Evan said.
I followed him through the living room into another room that was clearly meant for entertaining. Large double doors opened onto a patio. I could see the edge of a pool beyond that, and in the dimming light of the setting sun, the garden looked immaculate. I imagined Evan having lavish parties here with guests that dressed to the nines and shimmied around bragging about their money.
How was he going to make space for a baby in this life? He was living the single, carefree life again.
I turned my attention to Evan. He stood behind the bar, pouring two glasses of red wine. The drink of seduction, I’d read somewhere. Evan looked as rich as his surroundings. He wore a turtle neck and a blazer that would have made him look like an old man if it hadn’t been for his great physique and his distinguished features. When he looked up at me, feeling my eyes on him, his eyes had a twinkle of mischief in them, and he gave me a naughty smile.
He walked toward me and handed me the glass of wine.
“We’re not going to be interrupted tonight?” I asked.
Evan shook his head. “I’ve made sure that everyone knows I have a very important meeting tonight, and I’m not to be disturbed.”
