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“I ended up feeling a whole lot more than I bargained for. I told myself not to get too attached, too involved, but I couldn’t help it. You’re just so... you’re just so wonderful, Lukas, and when I got back, those feelings didn’t go away like I thought they would. I’ve been craving you ever since you left.”
My heart races in my chest. “Craving me?”
She meets my eye, straightening her back, like she’s ready to duel. “I know that isn’t what you want to hear, is it?” she fires back.
She’s no idea what her admission just did to me.
“I just want the truth.”
“You don’t want the truth,” she snorts. “Trust me.”
I give her a look, and she relents.
“Fine, do you want to hear about how fucked up it was when you left? I’m trying to figure my life out and now here I am not only craving your touch, butneedingit. I think about you day and night, wondering what you’re doing, who’s sharing your bed. And it’s fucked up.
We had eight fucking days together! Is that what you want to hear?”
I hate that I’ve made her upset. “What if I told you, it’s exactly what I want to hear?”
She frowns. “You don’t. You’re Lukas fucking Bentley, ruler of the world. You can have anybody, and when you tire of me, Lukas, where does that leave me? And I hate it, I hate that I sound so needy because I reallydon’tneed a man, but you’ve ruined me,” she goes on, her face getting red. “You’ve ruined me for all other men, just like you wanted.”
A slow smile spreads across my face.
She shakes her head, anger forming in her features. “You think this is fucking funny?”
I stand and round her desk before she can even blink.
“I meant to ruin you for all other men. I did it on purpose, Ariana, because I didn’t want any other man to have you,” I tell her, crouching down, holding her shoulders so she can’t get up and flee. “Did you ever stop to think that maybe I had the time of my life too, and maybe I want more?”
“You didn’t ever tell me that in Mexico,” she whispers. “You said you could dohouse calls. And you should know now, I’m not going to be your bit on the side that you come and fuck whenever the fancy takes you. That isn’t me, and it will never be me. I could never share you.”
“You think I enjoy the thought of another man having you?” I bark, and it sounds harsher than I mean it to, but the thought alone drives me mad. “Touching what’s mine?”
“Yours?” She frowns.
I bite my lip as I try not to smirk. “Yes, mine. And you sound so sexy when you say fuck about a thousand times.”
She opens her mouth, then closes it again.
I brush the hair back off her face. “You know what I think?”
She looks at me warily. “That I should call security?”
I ignore her. “I think we should try this dating thing.”
Her breath hitches in her chest. “What do you mean?”
I smile. I so desperately want to kiss her, but if we’re going to do this, it can’t just all be based on sex. That isn’t how you win a woman; not one you intend on keeping.
We have a connection, and I deeply wish to explore that.
“I mean, our relationship in Mexico was all based on sex, pretty much, not that I didn’t enjoy it, but I barely know anything about you. I want to take you out to dinner, see a show, go to a movie, do something you’d like to do, see how we connect in other areas, not just the bedroom.”
Her lip trembles. “Why would you want that?”
“Don’t you?”
“Yes, but would that mean…”
