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God, he’s infuriating. I hate being told what is good for me. Everyone around me thinks they know what I need. The only reason I am even here, in England, with him, is because my family thinks they know what is best for me. They’re all trying to fix me. Because I am a problem. I’m THE problem. The root cause of all the family shit.
“You’re overthinking it.” Dax glances at my face as he drives. “I just go to some places that are not the kind of places you should be.”
“And what sort of places are those?” I snort.
He flicks his gaze over me. “The kinds of places where the men there won’t be content with only looking at those incredible legs of yours.”
I look at my over-the-knee boots. I’m wearing them with an oversized sweatshirt dress. It almost meets the top of them when I’m standing. I only have skin on show right now because I’m sitting.
“The wayyoulike to look at them, you mean?”
My stomach flips.I did not just say that out loud.
I’m bluffing. I’ve seen Dax glance at my legs before. But I assumed it was my outfit choice. Not my legs.
Those incredible legs.Why would he say that?
His chest rumbles with a deep laugh and I turn to him in surprise. His brilliant white teeth are visible as his lips part. I’ve never seen them like this before. They look even whiter against his dark clothes and inked skin.
They’re perfect… like the rest of him.
“What’s so funny?” I blurt.
“You.”
“Me? What’s funny about me?”
He looks straight ahead. “You’re right. I have looked at them. I’m not going to lie and say I haven’t. I’ve looked at them and thought a whole host of things I shouldn’t be thinking. All of which include them being wrapped around me.” He shakes his head, his laugh gone. “But that’s never going to happen.”
My core flutters, then promptly crashes and burns. Was that an admission of being attracted to me? Or just another of his riddles?
“Why?” I push.
He shakes his head. “Because I will never allow it. That’s why,” he hisses, back to moody Dax again.
Oh.
Then he turns up the radio, drowning out the confused whirl of my own voice in my head.
Dax hot-and-cold Silver.Telling me things that evoke entire butterfly armies to leap into life in my stomach in one breath, and then blasting them all with toxic bug poison the next.
He’s right. Weshouldnever happen. He’s far too complicated. And I came here because my life is already complicated enough. I don’t need to add to it.
I stare out of my window, and we drive the rest of the way in silence.
Chapter 12
Dax
“Wherearewe?”
Rose wrinkles up her nose as I open the car door for her, and she looks over at the giant woodland cabin.
“You’ll see.”
I take her hand in mine and lead her over to the open doorway.
“What is this place?” Rose looks at the neat line of shoes on the wooden deck that wraps around the cabin.
