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My heart warms. I reach over and take his hand resting on the table. “I really appreciate everything you do for me.” I know he’s probably over me thanking him so much, but I can’t help it.
“You know you don’t have to thank me,” he tells me and runs his thumb over the back of my hand soothingly.
“Since this is your restaurant, why don’t you order for me?” I slide the menu away from me.
His eyes light up. “Deal.” He lifts his free hand and motions for the waiter. She sees him through the window and walks to us. He tells her what we want to eat.
“I hope that I haven’t kept you from your work this last month.”
He shakes his head chuckling. “Darlin, I wanted to be with you. I have a manager who handles the day to day so I don’t need to be here much.”
I smile, putting my hand under my cheek, staring at him. He really is beautiful. I’m not just talking about his looks either. Hisphysical appearance should be illegal but his heart is even more lethal.
A few minutes later the waitress comes and slides two salads in front of us. She smiles at me and walks through the door.
“Look how beautiful,” I say breathlessly. The sky is a beautiful deep, orange with some red mixed in.
“Stunning,” Isaac says softly. I turn to look at him and to my surprise he’s not looking at the sky, but at me.
“Isaac.” I blush and touch my warm cheeks.
He laughs and pushes my hair over my shoulder, staring at me. “Well, you are beautiful.”
I blush even deeper at all of his compliments. “You are so kind to me Isaac.” I don’t speak the last part out loud but I think it -I don’t deserve it. I don’t deserve any of it but I couldn’t leave or stay away if I wanted to.
Soon our food arrives and it’s absolutely mouthwatering. “You have a really amazing place; the food is out of this world,” I praise.
We finish our food and evening has settled outside. Isaac pulls my chair out for me. “Want to go dancing?” he asks me and my eyes light up at that. “Yes! I would love too.”
We walk down the short steps out of our private room. I can feel eyes on us but I ignore them.
“Did you see her back?” I hear someone whisper and I look straight ahead pretending that I didn’t hear them.
But I know Isaac did with his jaw set and the tightening of his grip on me. I pass one of the men that yelled at us in front when we walked ahead. “Hey bitch, want me to add more to those marks?”
I die inside and curl into myself as everything turns black.
Isaac
I don’t think, I just move. I grip the fucker by the back of his head, slamming him face down into his plate of food.
The woman with him screams at the top of her lungs but all I can see is her horrified face, the fear.
Fuck.
“You will not fucking disrespect her again. You’re lucky we are in a room filled with women and children or I would fucking kill you,” I roar at him not even caring who will hear me.
I push his face down hard one last time and he pushes at the table trying to get away. I stand back, fighting myself not to tear him limb for limb for hurting her like that.
He grabs a napkin off the table and wipes at his face, horrified. I wave at the security. “Take this fucker out of here before I kill him,” I tell them and they lift him by his arms carrying him out with his woman following behind.
Emily is looking at the ground. It’s like she’s a ghost of the person she just was, she was just smiling and having fun
But this fucker had ruined all of that.
I bend over and lift her gently off the ground, carrying her bridal style out of the restaurant.
I’m sick to my stomach that someone had the audacity to do something like this to her. To open the wounds, to hurt her because we got into a restaurant before them, a restaurant I own.
