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Fucking hell.
“Come with me,” he said commandingly. “I know what you’re doing.”
“Do you?”
“You snuck in here pretending to be one of the catering staff,” he accused, and even though I just laughed in disbelief, inside my stomach flipped. What the fuck? He went on, sounding even more confident than before. “You want the attention of one of those guys… Aiden, Dominic, or Xander depending on how ambitious you are.”
Well, at least he hadn’t realized I was here for a hit. He just thought I was a gold digger.
The Crudes should be so lucky.
“You’ve got me mistaken for someone else.” I gave another disbelieving chuckle, shaking my head.
Could I get away with murdering him? No, it would alert Gavin Crude he was in danger. I needed to find a way to get rid of this fool.
He laughed right back at me. “If you don’t want to get kicked out of here, you’re going to come with me.”
“What do you want?” I demanded, even though I already had an idea what he wanted.
He was average height, reasonably good looking, but the fact he was hassling me suggested his personality was a huge cock-block.
“You and I can go talk privately.” His eyes looked slightly glazed. He wasn’t just high on rich hubris; he was high on something special that made him so audacious. “Aiden would never go for a plain bitch like you, but if he sees you with me, he might want what I have…”
“No.” This wasn’t a Shakespearian comedy.
Maybe I could get away with killing him if I was really careful about disposing of the body. I contemplated leaving with him… and finding the nearest bridge.
“I know what you’re doing,” he repeated.
“And yet, I don’t thinkyouknow what you’re doing, Anthony.” A smooth, but irritated, voice spoke over my shoulder. The scent of expensive aftershave washed over me accompanied with the touch of a hand at the small of my back. More warmly, the speaker murmured into my ear, “There you are.”
The voice was deep and rich, and I looked up into the sparkling eyes of… Aiden Crude.
He smiled, that wide, slow smile that was like the sun coming out, that had drawn my eye from across the room. How could a man involved in such an evil gun-running business smile in a way that made me want to smile back?
“Here I am,” I said lightly, with no idea what was going on, but I’d do my best to roll with it. I handed my now-empty champagne glass to the asshole who had been hassling me and turned to face Aiden.
“I’ve been looking for you all night.” He touched my chin with one knuckle, raising my gaze to his.
The other guy, Anthony, glanced behind Aiden. I caught a glimpse of a tall, blond haired man who was built and huge standing away from the wall, his gaze fixed on Anthony.
Anthony hurried away, his cheeks blazing. He must think now this was a case of mistaken identity, that the staff he’d met looked similar to a girl who belonged here.
Iknewthis was a case of mistaken identity.
“Why’s that?” I arched my eyebrows innocently.
“Well, if Dominic is going to go through the trouble of setting up a blind date for me, of course I’m at least going to meet her,” he said. “I’ll admit, I get tired of these affairs. Of… meeting new people.”
Two beautiful women walked toward Aiden, smiling at him, but he didn’t seem to see them. His gaze was fixed on me. After a moment where they hovered, drinking champagne and laughing at jokes the other hadn’t really made, they moved away.
“I’m so sorry,” I deadpanned. “It seems like a terrible life.”
“I’m not so out of touch that I would say it’s terrible. But it’s… dull, in its own ways, at times.”
I wondered what the hell my name was supposed to be.
“Dominic told me that he’d set up a date, but not what your name was,” he said. “Just a description.”
