“Six months, huh?”
He hated stumbling through the words, so he forked in a mouthful of salad. As he chewed, he was drawn back to her. The second she stared into his eyes, a power hit of adrenaline charged through him. Beauty and strength engaged him in a way he’d never felt.
Man-up and say something.
“So you and Gabriel, huh?” he asked.
For fuck’s sake. C’mon idiot. Not that. Don’t ask her about that.
Her eyes widened. “Me and Gabriel?”
He shrugged a shoulder.
Her chuckle rumbled through her like thunder on asummer afternoon. He loved the rawness of her laugh, the brightness in her midnight eyes.
“You mean, like together together?” She pressed the wine glass to her lips, tipped the glass, and drank.
His heart ka-chunked in his chest while he soaked up the way she softly pressed her mouth against the crystal. And then, his thoughts turned dark and wild. Her mouth on him, going down on him, while she unleashed all that sexiness…
On me. Just me.
Blinking away the phenomenal fantasy, he set down his fork, leaned back. His cock had woken up again and he needed to shift his thoughts away fromthat.
Anything but that.
“I don’t know why you’d care,” Sydney said, the bite in her voice snapping him back to reality. “You’re not interested.”
His eyes grew large. “Not interested? Are you for real?”
“I never heard from you… not once. You said you’d text me. I got a big, fat goose egg of nada.”
What the hell?
He unearthed his phone, toggled to the text thread that had gone unanswered and set the phone between them on the table.
“That’s you,” he said. “Those are the texts I sent you.Youdidn’t reply tome.”
She leaned over and read the texts.
I’d love to take you for dinner. How ‘bout this week?
Ten days later, he’d send another text.
Not sure if you saw this. Maybe dinner’s too much. Coffee sometime?
A month later, a third text.
I’d love to see you. If you want to get together, let me know
And finally, the one he sent hours earlier.
Hey Sydney got time to grab a drink with me?
She stared into his eyes, the harshness in hers replaced with a fiery gaze. “I’ve never seen these before.”
