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Chapter Fifteen
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Kensley swallowed thedecadence in her mouth. Her skin heated, and her heart missed a beat. She shouldn't be going into how impossibly gorgeous he was, but how could she not when he stood within her sight, leaning into the archway of the dining room hall, watching her eat?
He had removed his jacket and his tie, leaving him with only his pristine white shirt and his perfectly tailored suit trousers, both items highlighting every ounce of muscle and power.
He was her enemy, and she was going to take him down. Tonight. She needed to play the part of a worthy adversary, or he'd think she was no contest. She also had the upper hand by planning everything down to the finest detail. He had no idea what was going to happen. If nothing else, the element of surprise would aid her better. She hoped.
She had to save her grandparents’ apartment and keep her virginity. Besides, nothing he did could takeherby surprise now. She knew what it felt like to be kissed by him. Touched. Spanked. She had compartmentalized those responses in her head, and she could turn them off now at will, she believed.
“You missed the best meal ever,” she said, licking her spoon. He sprouted a scruffy five o'clock shadow over his bone-melting square jaw, and his hair looked as if he had run his fingers through the soft, silky thickness a few times already.
She forced herself not to thaw in the chair at his approach.
“Do you want some?” She stalled as he neared; his presence created a stream of wetness between her legs. Her nipples hardened and strained the delicate chiffon of the dress, clearly visible to his eyes.
Time for her new plan.
“I have a new proposition,” she said, patting the sides of her mouth with a napkin and then rising from her seat.
And so it begins.
“Please take a seat, Hunter,” she said, pulling out a chair for him. She had to display her dominance from the get-go.
Suspicion crossed his gorgeous features. “I won’t bite... unless you want me to,” she said softly, adding a bit of a flirtatious twang to her tone and completely unsure whether she pulled that off or just came off as creepy.
Fully amused now, he sank his tall frame into the chair, and once he was settled, his long, muscular legs spread wide, he still managed to convey that even seated, he held the advantage over everything about her.
Kensley reached out to one side of his shoulder, willed her hand to stop trembling, and seductively trailed her fingers across his massive width to the other end of his shoulder until she faced him again.
She then smiled and leaned against the edge of the table, her arms crossed over her chest, a stance he had taken with her before, except she could push her breasts together for his sole attention.
He rubbed his jaw in that supremely rugged way as he gazed at her face, but never for a second did his focus move to her ample cleavage.
Not a problem.
That just meant she had to use more of her wiles, and she was prepared to use them all if needed.
“You're a powerful man, Hunter.” She kept her voice low and husky because that was what the script she had written with Marcy instructed her to do. “You always get what you want.”
His focus continued to remain solely on her face. “So much so that you went from the easiest route of paying me for my virginity to actually agreeing to work for it over a period of thirty days. That’s how confident you are.” She paused. So far, so good.
