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His heart jumped. “Are you saying you won’t be able to sleep because of me?”
“Yes,” she answered in a small voice.
“I wasn’t able to sleep because I was thinking about you too,” he accepted.
Silence grew and thickened, charging the air between them despite the distance.
“My turn,” he said. “How many boyfriends have you had?”
He heard her suck in a breath. “Two, and neither of them could make me feel what I felt when you touched me today.”
God damn! She was so bold. He loved it. To hear that he was the only one who’d probably made her come apart was…it was…exhilarating. Images of them tangled together flashed behind his eyes and his body hardened.
“Fuck!” he swore. “Now I’m going to need a cold shower before I go to bed.”
Her soft laugh tinkled down the line. “I think I’m going to go now. Good night.”
“What? You’ve no more questions?”
“Oh, I have plenty. But we’ve crossed way too many lines already for one night.”
“Dream of me then.”
“Ha, you wish.”
“Tiya, I know you will dream of me. Just like I will dream of the way you dissolved in my arms.”
“Oh God. Stop with the flirting,” she chided.
“Hey! You’re the one who called me.”
“Bye now. Be at my place at eight next Friday.”
“Don’t I get a say in this?”
“Nope,” she replied, disconnecting the line.
Vihaan lay down, a happy smile on his face. This thing with Tiya wasn’t supposed to be fun, it was to be business only, and yet he couldn’t deny the joy he felt when he was with her, bantering with her, listening to her. He shut his eyes, forcing himself to sleep. The weekend was too far away when he was already aching to see her again.
12
Tiya took a sip of her wine, her eyes once again sweeping around the restaurant, searching. Of course, he wasn’t there. Why would he? He didn’t know she was having dinner with Myra? Disappointed, she focused on Myra. As usual, Myra had chosenLa Soireefor their catch up. A few minutes later, Myra got a call from her dad and she excused herself to speak to him.
Alone, Tiya’s thoughts wandered right back to Vihaan. God! He was taking too much of her mind space. After their encounter in his office inKomobayand their heated phone conversation, she was scared that if she allowed him into her life more, she’d end up falling for him. As it is, what she’d told him last night was the truth. He was the only man in whose arms she’d tasted pleasure.
She was the one who’d made the rules between them and then she’d happily forgotten them when she’d been in his arms. Her mind kept telling her that she was a fool to be engaging with him like this. She hardly knew him. It was fake between them, not real. Vihaan had told her in no uncertain terms that they couldn’t be more. Then why did her heart rebel against that and insist upon seeing where this led between them?
Why did she desperately want to listen to her heart when her mind kept screaming that he was a bad choice for her heart?
She chewed her lip. Sometimes, bad choices made for good stories. Maybe she did need a good story in her life. When her eyes scanned the crowd again, Myra pinched her hand, forcing her to pay attention to her. She hadn’t even realized Myra had returned.
“He’s not here,” Myra said. “Stop looking for him.”
“I’m not—”
Myra’s sharp glare cut her off.
“I told you to stay away from him, didn’t I?” Myra bit out. “You never listen.”
