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“Is everything okay?” I ask.
“Yes.”
“You’re sure?”
“As okay as it’ll ever be, I suppose,” she says. Her tone is a little too flippant.
I try a different approach.
“If you were here at six, that means it was a short night for you.”
“I didn’t expect to sleep much.” She doesn’t say more, but her clipped tone suggests there’s a hell of a lot more.
“Wanna talk about it? I’m a great listener. If you need an impartial ear, I’m your guy.”
“No thanks…” She shakes her head. “It’s nothing worth wasting time over.”
That’s all she says.
No further explanations.
She’s hard to read and nearly impossible to figure out.
Why does that intrigue me so much?
I can’t remember finding the last dozen women I fucked nearly as fascinating. It’s more than finding out how sweet her pussy tastes, it’s about understanding what makes her tick.
My eyes are still glued to her soft pink shapely lips.
Damn.
I have the pressing urge to suck them between my teeth, to fucking own them.
“You’re staring, Beckett.”
“Am I?”
“You know you are.”
My brain is telling me to drop it, but since most of the blood in my body is flowing to my crotch, I’m oblivious to the warning. My starved cock does all the thinking. And talking.
“I’d love to take you out for dinner,” I say. “Eight o’clock? We can leave together. There’s this incredible restaurant—”
“Unless it’s strictly business, I’ll pass.”
Talk about slamming the door shut.
Undeterred, I soldier on. “What if I wanted to thank you for your hard work?”
“I haven’t even rolled up my sleeves yet, Beckett. It’s a bit premature, don’t you think?”
Okay. Strike two.
“We both have to eat, might as well do it together? It would be great to get to know each other outside the office.”
“That’s not a good idea.” She shakes her head, her lips pressed together, as an angry blush creeps up her cheeks. Another time, another place, and I’d say pissed off looks sexy on her, but not in this case. There seems to be a shit load of baggage behind her refusal. “I prefer to keep the lines unblurred.” The fury in her eyes is unmistakable. “Anything else and people get royally screwed.”
Her gaze moves to her computer, dismissing me in the process.
