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I don’t do this.
I don’t sit with strangers at a bar for a hundred dollars that I don’t take, just to talk and take my mind off current events that affect my whole life.
Furthermore, I don’t go to a wedding with a plethora ofmorestrangers with someone that I’ve only known for not even a week.
But that didn’t stop the way I said yes to Kai at the bar. The way I suggested going because what was I going to lose? I’d already been fired from my job that day because my boss got pissed that I wouldn’t write about the latest mascara brand and how to pull off the perfect ponytail.
I was over the beauty and fashion columns that Jonathan wanted me to write. The multitude of conversations we’d had about it were so many that I couldn’t count that high, and he was snubbing out my creativity to write something more.
WhileClassy AFis the latest blog and women’s magazine in California, I wished for more. It was a great-paying job, but I put in four years at that place while my retorts and complaints about writing the same things fell on deaf ears.
So, I took a chance.
A chance that cost me my job but, I’d find another one. Jonathan obviously didn’t care about how I was feeling because Jennifer had only been working there a year when she began to write pieces on injustice, sexism and racism. It all came down to who could flirt better and that wasn’t something I was going to do.
Jonathan was a tool, someone who adored attention from his women employees and I wasn’t one who was going to hand him that while keeping my pride intact, so I wrote my piece.
He fired me.
End of story.
However, that chapter of my life isn’t even a strong thought right now as Kai arrives to pick me up in his fitted black suit with his hair moussed and his beard perfectly trimmed.
The man is hot as hell.
Absolutely not the type I’ve dated in the past, but that isn’t what this is. I needed something different to do, something to change up my norm because I had a feeling I was going to be doing a lot of that. And so I jumped at this chance just like I did my article forClassy AF.
And boy, am I glad I did.
His shoulders fill out his suit jacket and he appears like your typical bad boy that’ll break your heart into pieces before you even know you’re falling for him.
Everything about him is black.
His hair, the stubble along his edged jawline—everything but his sky-blue eyes, that have already fallen down the length of me.
I went classic tonight. A black dress that drops to the floor with a high slit that comes up to my upper left thigh. The straps on my dress are resting over my shoulders and the material is a sheer satin to keep it lightweight and me from sweating too much.
“Fuck, you’re beautiful,” he muses as his gaze falls to the slit of my dress that exposes some of my thigh. “I’m almost tempted to tell you to put something else on, but this isn’t something that’s easily going to be forgotten.”
I smile, I can’t help it.
This man has made me feel absolutely gorgeous since the first time I met him. I’m not looking for a relationship, but I’m not going to shoot one down if it comes suddenly like this with a man who’s this attractive.
“Thank you,” I reply. “And I don’t think you’d want me to change anyway.” His blue eyes flick up to mine. “Getting out of this dress is going to be hard and I’ll need some help.”
Something like lust forms in those blue depths and I know exactly what he’s thinking. If this man gets me half-naked, we’re never getting to the wedding. I know he’s going to make a move. This man exudes confidence without a fuck given to the world. I know he’ll take what he wants while I pick up the pieces of any emotions I might pick up during or after.
I already have enough stress.
“Might be for the best if we just go,” he finally says, taking the out so that we don’t act on impulses that might get us in trouble later. “Are you ready?”
I nod. “I am.”
Kai waits for me to step down onto my porch before I hit the sidewalk and arrive at the passenger side door of his very sharp black Audi. His hand shoots out around me to open the door and I actually think I swoon for a second because no one has ever done that for me before.
“Thank you,” I offer up as I take a seat inside. The cool leather seats feel great against my body as he closes the door behind me and rounds the front of his ride, giving me another private moment to soak in this black suit he’s wearing before he’s saddled up beside me in the car.
He starts it up and, before I know it, we’re on the highway in silence. A rock band plays on his radio but it’s so low that I can’t figure out who’s singing before Kai breaks into the silence of the space.
