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I knew I had to answer his question, but I was drowning in what he’d just said.
I wasn’t sure I was even capable of forming words at this point.
That was how hard his words had hit me.
I’d known long before tonight why he was the king of one-night stands, but the more time I spent with him, the more I realized why.
That statement, that description—if we were back at his condo and not at this restaurant, I would probably tell him to forget all the lessons and just take my virginity now.
That was how turned on I was.
He smiled. “Nerves got your tongue?”
“You would like that to be the case, wouldn’t you?”
I paused to get my brain straight and focused again.
“Why would I want you to fail?”
Because maybe he was afraid he was going to fall in love with me and wanted to end my proposition before it even started.
That was a long shot, but it was still an option.
One I wasn’t sure I could even wrap my head around.
Or maybe he was having second thoughts about all of this, and he wanted to make lesson number two so extremely difficult that he was hoping I’d quit, and he wouldn’t have to be responsible for taking my virginity.
Or maybe he really just wanted to see me come at a table inside a restaurant.
The problem was, I couldn’t read Camden like he could with me.
And something told me he’d never tell me the truth.
“I don’t know,” I whispered. “It’s just a little hunch I had. It looks like I was wrong though.”
Kimmy returned with both glasses of vodka in her hands, and she set them down in front of us. “The appetizers should be right out. Have you decided on your main courses?”
I hadn’t even opened the menu. “No—”
“I think we’re just going to start with apps,” he said, cutting me off. “We’ll see where that takes us.”
She gazed at him as she replied, “Sounds like a good plan to me.”
When it was just us again, I asked, “What’s reason number three?”
He gave me a sly grin. “I didn’t think it would hurt for us to have a little conversation before the lesson went down. Like I said, bars can be loud. This atmosphere almost forces us to talk.”
I couldn’t believe that was what he wanted. This proposition was physical, nothing more. Conversation opened up avenues I was positive he didn’t want to explore.
But if that was what he wanted, I’d give it to him, so I said, “Am I allowed to ask about the Hooked case?” I held up my hand before he had a chance to respond. “Hannah didn’t tell me. I know she can’t speak about the cases that you and Declan are working on since she can’t violate the rules of professional conduct. But it’s been all over the internet, so she didn’t tell me anything I hadn’t already read.”
“Trying to save my sister’s ass, are you?” he teased, winking.
I liked when he softened. When he flirted. When he was so incredibly charming that I could picture myself wrapping my arms around his neck and hugging him.
“Honestly, it’s been fucking wild,” he continued. “It’ll probably be the biggest case I’ll ever work on—maybe in my lifetime. Two social media giants at war, and Hooked doesn’t want to settle. They want the world to know what Faceframe did, so they’re pushing for a trial. Declan and I have so much fucking work to do. That’s about as much as I can tell you.” He raked his fingers through his scruff. “What did I see the other day on Instagram? You won an award from your company?”
“Ohhh.” I clasped my hands together. “Yeah, that.” It had been a last-minute decision to post the photo on Instagram, but Hannah had yelled at me for not doing so, so I’d caved. “I won President’s Club for the third year in a row. That award was for the highest book of business in my region, highest revenue increase within the entire company, and highest new sales in the western half of the US. In other words, I kinda blew every sales objective out of the water.”
