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“Not impressed then?” he asks, but he’s smiling like he knows I’m lying.
“Were you trying to impress me?” I’m unable to keep from bantering with him further.
His smile gives nothing away. We’re embattled in some sort of warped foreplay that I can’t allow to wind up in the bedroom.
Pity.
“I’ll walk you to your car.” He stands. When I turn, a broad, warm hand touches the small of my back.
I give my ticket to the valet who scampers off to retrieve my car.
“Until next time.” Nate lifts my hand and kisses a space between the knuckles of my index and middle fingers. It’s unexpectedly erotic. Before I accuse him of acting debonair to work an angle, he floors me with more of his signature eye contact.
He’s close, his head angled. Electric awareness zaps between us. I want to kiss him. Push to my toes and taste his firm, full mouth. Smash my nose against his crooked one and rub up against him.
I shouldn’t want that. I can’t afford to be close to anyone. Not after my entire life fell apart. My car arrives and I take a step away from him, the moment lost. Nate rounds my Hyundai and opens the driver’s side door. Is that disappointment in his eyes? Or challenge?
“See you around,” he says before he closes the door.
I pull away from the curb and smile.
Definitely challenge.
