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Dmitri was definitely not the kind of guy to do anything he didn’t want to.
“Fine. I’ll hear him out.” I grabbed the coffee pot from the warmer and made my way to his table, feeling his eyes on me the moment he lifted them from the menu.
“Coffee?” I asked, hovering the pot over the empty cup in front of him.
“No.”
I put the pot down and grabbed my pad of paper. “Can I take your order, then?”
“Aleksandra.” The way he said my name, with determination and passion, sent a bullet straight through my anger. But I wasn’t letting go of it just yet. Just because he could make me feel more with just one word than any man had ever before didn’t mean I was going to jump back in his lap.
I clenched my jaw, raising my gaze to his. “Pancakes?”
“Sit.” He gestured to the seat across from him.
“I’m working.” I pointed out. “If you don’t want pancakes, what do you want?”
“To see you.”
“You saw me.”
“Aleksandra.” A warning, and damn if my body didn’t immediately melt to it.
“Dmitri. I can’t do this. I finally got my life back to normal,” I dropped my hands.
“I know.” He nodded. “I’m not here to ruin it.”
“You’re not?”
“No.” He reached over and picked up my hand, his thumb running over my knuckles. My toes curled in my shoes; it wasn’t fair how attuned my body was his to touch.
“I’m not leaving either.”
“Then…what?”
“I was an asshole.”
“Yes, you were.” I nodded, suddenly feeling all the emotions I’d stuffed down over the past two months.
“You’ve done well here.” He said, squeezing my fingers.
“Dominik offered to help me get a job at club one of his associates owns, but I said no. Better to stay away from all of them.” Did that include him, though? Damn, I was starting to think I’d made another mistake. The longer I looked down into his eyes, the more I wanted him to wrap his arms around me and carry me the hell out of that place.
”I should have come to you sooner.”
“You don’t live in New York, I thought.”
“I’m in New York now. Permanently. I’ve been here since you came back.” He arched an eyebrow. “Your apartment has more secure locks now, yes?”
“That was you? I thought my landlord did it.” I should have known. I don’t live in the best apartment, but the locks are top-of-the-line. Fort Knox would be easier to get into.
“He did. At my direction.” He pulled me into the booth with him, too close to him to not feel the heat coming from him.
“Dmitri. You have a whole different sort of life than me. We’re never going to work.” I’m not sure who I was trying to convince, but I don’t think either of us really wanted to believe it.
He slid his thumb over my bottom lip and then yanked it away as though touching me hurt.
“Your world and my world can become our world.” He frowned. “That wasn’t good wording. I’ll get better at it.” He decided.
