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There was a shake of Kat’s head. “No, no, I don’t want that.”
Then I stepped forward and motioned toward the elevator. “Then let me escort you.”
She lowered her head and walked back the way she'd come. Silence filled the elevator as we rode down to the foyer. I didn’t know what I'd expected, but it wasn’t this. She didn’t look at me, instead she focused on the damn elevator doors until they opened.
Logan was waiting, as was the guard assigned to her. She just took one look at the guy and commanded, “You can leave.”
He just shook his head. “Can’t do that, Ms. VanHa—”
“I’ll make sure she get’s home safe,” Logan cut in, glancing my way.
There was a careful scan from the bodyguard as he looked Logan up and down, then gave a nod and left.
“We good here?” Logan met my gaze. But I wasn’t the one who answered.
“Fine,” Kat muttered. “Let’s just get this over with.”
Ouch.
Logan just gave me a carefulwhat the fuckstare before he went to the doors and stepped out, scanning the darkness, then strode ahead. I said nothing, just fell in step, and for a second, I wondered what it’d be like to walk beside her…toreallywalk beside her, to share her world.
It hit me then how different we were. She was caviar and Dom, and I was Harleys and Sig Sauers. She was designer dresses that’d send me bankrupt inside a year, and I was ripped jeans and leather. She glanced toward me and those big brown eyes hit me like a fucking sledgehammer.
I didn’t care in that moment, didn’t care about the money or the power. I didn’t give a fucking shit if she was going to ruin me…because I was pretty sure that was going to happen. In that moment, I’d gladly have laid down in front of that truck hurtling my way…the one with heartbreak written all over it.
But then she shifted her focus back to Logan as we stepped into the foyer of my building. Logan stepped into the elevator and punched the buttons for both the top floor and the one under it. I gave him a glance.
“Ah, Freddy and I are gonna take the lower floor, so we can do more patrols at night without disturbing your beauty sleep,” Logan muttered without meeting my gaze.
But thatwasn’twhy. I stared the steely bastard down. But he just glanced her way and stepped out as the doors opened. It didn’t take me long after I stepped out to see they’d already cleared out their shit. But Kat was oblivious, scanning the suite as she stepped forward.
Crushed beer cans littered the counter. There were someone’s boxers thrown over the back of the sofa. I stepped around her, snatched them, and cast them toward Logan, who caught them a second before the doors started to close.
He just gave a chuckle and shook his head.Asshole.
I walked around, brushing my hair from my face. “Ah, can I get you something to drink?”
She just turned on me like a damn predator. “A drink?” She took a step, her eyes glittering with something that triggered the fighter inside me. “You come tomyfriend’s apartment, coerce me into coming back to your place, and ask me if want a goddamn drink?”
I frowned…was I missing something here? “Yeah. That pretty much sums it up.”
Fuck me, she was fire…
She took a step, pushing me against the end of the counter. “You think just because we shared a moment that you can manipulate me into your bed?”
My jaw clenched at the words.Manipulate?“No. I don’t,” I snarled. The woman was starting to piss me off. “But look, if you want to forget this thing between us ever happened, princess, then by all means, deny it all you goddamn want. The last thing I want is for all your‘friends’to think you’re slumming it with a Rossi.”
She stopped in front of me, so close we could almost touch. I lowered my head and looked down at her. Pretty rich girls like her lowered their standards for two things, sex and protection, and with a bankroll like hers, I was betting sex…well, I had been.
Now I wasn’t so sure.
Her gaze shifted to my mouth, then her focus traveled over my lips. “You want to kiss me, princess?” I taunted, and fuck me, my cock came alive at the thought.
Her breasts rose with a deep breath. There was no denying the heat between us, no stomping out the fire that raged.
“Do not fucking move,” she ordered. “You touch me and I walk, get it?”
Electricity tore through me as she took a small step. I gripped the edge of the counter, somehow knowing everything I wanted hinged on that moment. I was still, so fucking still, as she rose on her toes and cupped the back of my neck.
