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‘Get in,’ he clipped out, yanking the door open the moment she’d snatched her purse and a wholly inappropriate sparkly coat from the bouncer—without a word of thanks, he noted.
She opened her mouth, no doubt to throw another taunt his way.
Alessio hardened his features, letting her see how close she was to breaking his last straw.
Luminous smoky-grey eyes blinked again.
She glanced inside the car. Her throat started to move in a nervous swallow, but she halted the move at the last moment. He’d seen it though, and satisfaction pulsed through him.
Good, she wasn’t utterly devoid of a sense of self-preservation.
But when she glanced at the door to the nightclub, he stepped into her eyeline. ‘You’re not going back in there. At least not tonight. Accept that and get in the car. This game you’re playing ends tonight.’
The faintest fluttering of her nostrils, and she shrugged off all concern.
For a fraction of a moment, Alessio envied her easy ability to bat off responsibility and burdens. It’d never been a luxury he could indulge in. Not since his childhood was mercilessly ripped from him.
He smothered that bite of envy when she responded. ‘You’re right. Let’s do this. The quicker we both get what we want, the quicker I can get back to my friends, right?’
His nostrils flared as she angled her body with exaggerated grace that nevertheless consumed all his attention, his compelled gaze falling to the long, exposed legs she lifted off the ground to slide into the footwell.
Dulce cielo.
He shut the door with suppressed emotion and rounded the car.
Sliding behind the wheel, he willed his senses to calm. Willed the tingling and fury and bewilderment to cease.
He had duties to perform. Wrongs to right. And this woman...sexy and infuriating—why was her scent so intoxicating?—wasn’t going to stand in his way.
Alessio glanced at the clock. Time he didn’t have was ticking away. ‘You have thirty seconds to decide where we go once I start the car. I suggest the destination be wherever you’re hiding my property. And don’t say your hotel room to buy yourself more time. I have it on good authority it isn’t there. But be warned, if you don’t tell the truth...if you let me decide what happens next, you won’t like the consequences.’
CHAPTER THREE
GIADAPRETENDEDTOlook out of the window at the neon sign of the nightclub to buy herself thinking time. To swallow the trepidation thickening in her throat.
According to Gigi, Alessio was a cold, unfeeling shark. An entitled alpha male with a rock for a heart who ruthlessly shredded opponents in his wake.
Well, his actions in the last ten minutes indicated otherwise. Even now, emotion pulsed from him, his fingers clamped around the steering wheel, chest rising and falling as he speared her with volcanic eyes. She still hadn’t quite worked out their colour but they burned holes into her skin.
With every moment that passed, though, she grew more impressed with his rigid control. Just as she’d been awed by the hard, packed muscled beneath his—
No.
She was absolutely not going to think about his body. About that granite-hard jaw, those chiselled cheekbones and the way their perfect angles crafted his breathtaking face. About the sensual mouth that hinted strongly at his Latin blood and barely restrained passions—
Enough.
She shook her head to dispel the sensual web weaving dangerously around her. Giada wasn’t sure why he affected her so strongly, but she wouldn’t allow this insanity to continue.
Think, think. What had he said again?
Right. More threats about jail or worse.
She took a deep breath, almost groaning in despair when, from the corner of her eye, she saw his fingers tighten harder around the wheel.
No, he most certainly wasn’t unfeeling when it came to his possession.
Scrambling to recall everything Gigi had said, she cleared her throat and faced him. ‘I’ll return your item. Before that, though, you owe me.’
