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I stare.
I fall.
I just stay in the moment.
Which isn’t so hard since Adrian is able to confiscate my entire attention by merely being there.
Goosebumps erupt on my flesh from where he’s gripping me. The shadow on his sharp cheekbones gives him a darkened, lethal edge.
He’s such a handsome man with a quiet beauty that creeps up on you out of nowhere and a physical perfection that gets better with time. I might have been a bit infatuated with him for years.
Okay, alot.
“What do you think you’re doing, Lia?”
I love the sound of my name on his lips. In fact, I love it so much that I may have leaned closer merely to hear it clearer in the tenor of his voice.
Snap out of it, Lia.
“Just dinner,” I say with nonchalance.
“This doesn’t look likejust dinnerto me.”
“You’re the one who called me earlier wanting a date, remember?”
“Who said I want it anymore?”
I ignore how his words sting, especially since we’ve never really had a date before, but I tamp it down. “Well, I want a date.”
“If by a date, you mean you’ll either answer my questions or I will get your ass red, then fine, Lia. Let’s have a date.”
“And they say romance is dead.”
“Drop the sarcasm. It doesn’t suit you.”
“I think it suits me just fine.”
“Lia…” he warns. “Don’t talk back to me or your ass will pay the price.”
A jolt of excitement goes up my spine and I feign indifference, trying hard not to rub my thighs together. “The dinner is getting cold.”
“What are you playing at? Are you going to seduce me in order to ask for something later? To get out so you can meet the fucker, maybe?”
“No.” I shake my head. “I never cheated on you, Adrian. I swear.”
He grabs me by a fistful of my hair and I wince as he tugs backward. “So this is your new game? Denial?”
I hold onto his wrist, not to remove it, but to touch him, to establish a connection with him so that whatever vulnerable thread exists between us doesn’t break.
“How about I treat you the same, Lia? Should I bring in a mistress, too? I’ll tie you to the bed and fuck her right in front of you while you watch. Is that what you want?”
“No!” Tears fill my eyes and a green-eyed monster rears his head from the depths of my soul.
I have no doubt he’d do it just to teach me a lesson, to hurt me as much as I hurt him, and I don’t think I would ever survive the sight of Adrian touching another woman.
It’d break me to the point of no return.
“Why not? You sent your lookalike in my direction, so isn’t that what you expected to happen? For me to fuck her?”
