Page 21 of The Billionaire's Special Relationship

But this time, she wasn’t so quick and firm. “They don’t love me,” she ultimately responded. “That’s the point. That’s what I’m tired of.”

Stuart was taken by her response. Which only confirmed his assessment: This young lady was not being treated properly by anyone. It was as if they didn’t realize they had a rare gem in their presence. Which, to Stuart, was most unfortunate.

But Tabby was beginning to think of him in similar terms. For he, too, seemed like a rare gem to her as well. So rarethat she wanted to know more about him. “What about you?” she asked him.

He didn’t understand that question. “What about me?”

“You’re a businessman, right? Or do you wear a fancy suit around town for the heck of it?”

He laughed. “No, I’m a businessman, that’s correct.”

“Which business?”

“Dellstone Watersports.”

She knew that name. “I didn’t know they have a Dellstone here in Larkin.”

“No. Not here. I don’t live here.”

Tabby was surprised. “You don’t?”

“I was born here, but I live in New York.”

“Oh wow. So that’s why I never saw you again.”

“Excuse me?”

“At the restaurant. At Argyles. I looked for you after you gave me that tip. And it wasn’t for you to give me another big tip, but to thank you again. I looked for you for weeks after, but you never came back in.” She grinned. “Now I see why.”

She had a most beautiful white-teeth smile, and he was about to tell her so. But that property clerk finally called her name.

As soon as Tabby heard her name, she jumped up and hurried to the property desk. Stuart’s body began to react sensually as he watched her tight butt and her smooth, athletically-shapely legs come down from her neat little shorts.It usually took a mountain of sensualness to turn him on. But yet this young lady was turning him on just by being there? It was so out of character for him. But it was a fact. He couldn’t stop staring at her neat, little body.

But what he didn’t realize was that as he was watching her body so intensely, that desk sergeant was watching him. And when he finally looked away from Tabby and realized it, the sergeant was grinning and nodding at him. As if he agreed that Tabby was hot. Which infuriated Stuart. The last thing on earth he would do to Tabby was objectify her body like that.

But when that sergeant looked down at Stuart’s midsection, and Stuart looked down there too and saw that he was fully aroused, he was infuriated even more. How could he be aroused by somebody that young? He wasn’t attracted to women that age when he was that age! What was wrong with him? Why was he so out of character today? Was it Tabby? Or was it being back in Larkin?

He decided it was Larkin. That was the easier call. He couldn’t get out of this town fast enough.

That was why, as the clerk handed Tabby a sheet of paper with the tow truck company’s name, address, and phone number on it, he stood up. He tried to shake off his arousal by buttoning his suitcoat and placing his hands in his pockets. But it didn’t work because Tabby, and her perfectlyconfigured body, was still in full view.

He knew she was a kind, considerate young lady when she thanked that nasty-ass clerk just for doing her job, too, when he was certain she could have done it much faster. Like right away. But Tabby didn’t seem to mind as she hurried to him. “I got it,” she said with that wonderful smile. “I got it,” she said again as she waved that sheet of paper in her hand.

He wanted to sayabout timeor something equally as frustrating, but he couldn’t steal her joy. “Good for you,” he said with a smile of his own. “Now let’s get out of here,” he added, and she grinned. She was more than happy to do that too.

He opened the door for her and allowed her to pass in front of him. But as she passed by him, they were so close that her body brushed his still-aroused penis, which both of them felt, and then they made it outside.

It didn’t even occur to Tabby that she could have been the reason he was aroused, mainly because she never thought of herself in any sensual way whatsoever. Her mind immediately went to the environment. She assumed some desirable woman had walked in while she was at the property desk. Why else would he have been that aroused sitting in a gruffy police station?

But Stuart, even more embarrassed, just wanted to get in his car and get away from there. But when they got outside, they both felt deflated. They knew they were going to part ways probably forever, and although they both wanted to go on with their lives, it seemed kind of sad that theywould be going on separately.

Tabby didn’t know what to make of that feeling. She knew she was still a girl alone, and that had always been fine by her, but she didn’t feel lonely around him.

But Stuart didn’t know what to make of it either. He enjoyed her presence as well. In an odd way, she made him feel a sense of hopefulness and jubilance around her. But he also knew he had tons to do. Including an appointment with a realtor to help him sell his mother’s house. And on top of all of that, he had to take care of his own monumentally difficult corporate situation. Time to go!

“Alright, Tabby, you have a good rest of your day,” he said like a man ready to make a clean getaway.

“You too,” Tabby said as if it was no big deal to her either.