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“Good,” he says relieved. “Now let’s try to get some sleep.”
We get little sleep. We stayed up all night catching up on all the things he did since I left. How he played football in college but refused to go pro. How he was able to have tattoos when he was seventeen when he vacationed in Hawaii with his parents. Cason’s decision to branch out and build his empire in the private security world.
It was like seeing Kalum in a new light. A friendly light. No animosity. No judgment. It was like we were best friends catching up on old times. In reality, we were getting to know each other. It makes it hard not to like him more than a friend. It makes it harder not to remember how he made me feel in his arms.
38
KALUM
“How was your night in your new home?” Janine asks when I walk out of the boardroom.
I had a meeting with the developers, and they want to have dinner.
“Good. I need you to get Aura on the phone in my office.”
I need to ask her to go out with me tonight. It has me on edge. I hope she will agree. I don’t want to take anyone else but her.
“This doesn’t have to do with you needing a date for tonight’s dinner, does it?” she asks curiously.
“It does,” I tell her as I walk in my office. “Get her on the phone.”
“Are you going to ask her out on a date?”
“It’s not a date. I just need someone to go with, and you annoy me enough at work, and I can’t deal with you at dinner, either. It will raise questions, and then people will start to think there is more between us.”
“In that case, I’m on your side and will do whatever is necessary to get her to agree.”
She sets the phone on speaker and dials Aura’s number. It begins to ring, and I look at Janine with raised brows.
“What?” she asks.
“You can go now,” I say, waving her off.
“Alright. Alright, I’ll leave, but tell me if she says yes.”
“Hello.” Aura’s voice fills the room, and my cock strains in my pants.
Fuck. Everything about this woman does it for me. Even her voice turns me on.
“Hi,” I greet her.
“Hi.”
I’m nervous as fuck. For the first time in my life, I’m worried that a woman will turn me down when I ask her on a date.
I clear my throat. “Um… how is LJ doing?”
“He just finished having lunch. How is your day going so far?”
“Good.” I pause. “Listen, I wanted to ask if you have plans tonight.”
She pauses. My hands begin to sweat. “No, just finishing a couple of bracelets. I have some orders I have to fulfill.”
I slide the mouse on my computer and open the window to Aura’s website. I’ve bought all her bracelets since high school. All of them. I know it makes me a creep, a stalker, or even a weirdo, but they sell out fast. I started buying them all when I could. I have cases of them. They are all made by hand. Her hand.
“Oh… um… I was hoping you would go to dinner with me tonight. It’s a business dinner… with clients.”
Silence.
