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He paused, picked up his magazine, and began to pretend to read.
“That,” he added, “and your sheer arrogance.”
Kate couldn’t stop the scoff from bursting out of her mouth. It was followed by a round of laughter. There was no stopping it. The last time a man spoke to her like that, she’d fired him.
“See?” He asked, looking over at her. “I told you you’d be laughing.”
Kate nodded slowly, letting her laughs gently ease off. “You got me,” she said.
There was no other way to put it—this guy was cocky. She usually didn’t like cocky guys but this one had her interested. Was there a reason he was so confident? Was he well endowed? Or did he just think he was better than everyone else?
She took a little sip of her Sex on the Beach. The peach and orange taste slipped over her tongue and down her throat, cooling her off instantly.
Without her asking him, he got up off his lounger and sat down on the one next to hers. Kate eyed him suspiciously as he sat down beside her. She rolled her shoulders as she leaned into her lounger, a little annoyed that he’d presumed she wanted him closer.
He sat on the edge of the lounger, staring at her with his elbows buried into his knees. Kate didn’t want to encourage his behavior, so she tried to ignore him as she sipped at her drink.
“How about I take you out for dinner?” He asked, raising his eyebrows as he spoke.
“Dinner?” Kate asked, incredulous. “I don’t even know your name.”
The man held out his hand. “Gerard,” he said, rolling the R’s in his name. “And you are?”
Kate shook his hand gently, slowly. “Kate.”
“A beautiful name for a beautiful woman,” he said, his voice so silky it grated against Kate’s nerves.
“You’re not as smooth as you think you are,” Kate said, trying to pick at his confidence.
No man was as smooth as Gerard was. Not naturally, at least. It had to be an act or at least an extremely good day. She wanted to dig a little beneath the surface to see what was lurking behind the façade.
“Come on,” he said. “What will it hurt to spend an evening with me?”
Kate raised her eyebrows and looked at him expectantly. “I don’t know you,” she said. “You could be a murderer. Or a psychopath. Or something.”
“Fine,” he sighed. “Dinner in the hotel, then. Safe with plenty of eyes on us.”
Kate tried not to smirk. “You are persistent,” she said slowly.
She set her drink on the small glass table beside her and looked purposefully into his eyes. Christ, if she wasn’t so jaded, those eyes might have melted her down to her very core. It wasn’t like Kate was going to catch feelings and run away with this guy. She knew herself better than that.
He was cute, anyway. And he was clearly doing well for himself—a European in South America, which wasn’t a cheap journey. The idea that he would come all this way to commit murder was kind of ridiculous. It would have been wiser to go to another country closer to home.
But she wasn’t going to let him know about that thought. It was best to keep some distance between them. If she didn’t, he’d only get cockier. That wasn’t what Kate wanted. If anything, she wanted to break him. It would take some work, but she knew she’d be able to do it.
“Fine,” she sighed. “Dinner. In the hotel.”
“Excellent,” he said. “How does eight sound?”
Kate shrugged. “Sounds fine,” she said. “I’ll see you there.”
Right now, she wanted him to go away. This was the first day she’d spent on her vacation and she wanted to spend it alone, not playing with some boy who barely knew how to please a woman.
Kate felt a sigh of relief rush out of her nose as Gerard collected his belongings and left the beach. She was surprised he was leaving instead of hanging around to enjoy the sunshine, but she didn’t really care. It was none of her business. She was here to enjoy herself and that’s exactly what she was going to do.
No boy was going to distract her from that… unless she could have her own kind of fun with him.
Chapter six
