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Aero scooted his chair back, but I grabbed his arm.
“Where are you going?” I demanded.
“To your room, unless you tell me about the aliens,” Aero whispered.
I closed one eye and winced. “You’re not going to let this go, are you?”
He shook his head.
I squeezed his arm and leaned toward him. “You don’t play fair, Aero.”
“I never said I did, babe.”
I sighed and scooted my chair closer to him. “They’re romance books, but they have….”
“Aliens?” Aero guessed.
He was half right. “Blue,” I whispered.
He tipped his head to the side. “Blue aliens?”
I nodded and looked around. I knew I wasn’t the only person in the room who read alien romance, but it was still a weird thing to admit out loud, especially to a hot biker sitting next to you.
He furrowed his brow. “Blue aliens do it for you?” he asked. “I thought I’d heard it all, babe, but you just blew my mind.”
I closed my eyes and wished for that hole to open up and swallow me whole again. “Can we please not talk about this?” All of the words coming out of my mouth sounded ridiculous for someone who didn’t read romance. “It’s not as weird as it sounds. It’s more about the story.”
“You know that’s what guys say about porn, right? They are in it for the story.”
I opened my eyes and laughed. “You mean the two minutes in the beginning where the hot plumber guy knocks on the door ready to hook up the washing machine but instead ends up hooking up with the lonely housewife.”
He winked and pointed at me. “That one is my favorite. Though I do like a woman broke down on the side of the road, and a handsome stranger comes along and helps clean out her carburetor.”
“Oh, god,” I moaned. And now I was talking about porn plots with Aero. Could this get any stranger?
Aero winked and sat back to let the waitress set down our drinks.
“Can I get you two anything else?” she asked.
Aero shook his head. “We’re good.”
The waitress smiled at Aero, but he didn’t take his eyes off me. “Just let me know if you need anything.” She emphasized anything with a brush of her hand on Aero’s arm and drifted away.
That was the type of woman for Aero.
Not a book nerd who likes blue aliens.
“I have a feeling the books you read are just like porn,” he interrupted my thought.
“Some books are, and there isn’t anything wrong with them.” I had quite a few of those books on my Kindle, too. I just tended to lean more to story-driven books.
“I don’t think I have ever been more shocked when talking to a woman than I am right now, Sloane. I think you are going to say one thing, and then you say the exact opposite.”
“And what is it you think I am going to say?”
He shrugged, “Not what you’re actually saying.”
I laughed and took a sip of my water. “You’re funny, Aero.”
