Charmed by Richard by Scarlett Hope

Author:Scarlett Hope [Hope, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Rachel

Last night was awesome. Great. Splendid. Fabulous.

But today… today has been… inexplicable.

I wrinkled my eyebrows as I looked at the laughing face of the dark-haired man who’d given me pleasures I only ever dared to imagine. How exactly could I describe this? I wondered.

Many words came to mind, but they all seemed too shallow, too bleak to correctly express the depth of what I now recognized as very deep, very dangerous feelings.

Is this normal? I just met him last night for goodness sakes.

I’d been shocked beyond words when, without warning, he’d materialized by my side this morning while I was at the exhibition. Needless to say, the well-crafted assessment I’d been giving my professor hung in my throat as his heavenly face came into view. I couldn’t even breathe, coughing as my cheeks caught fire, my mind suddenly assailed by the images of what we’d done the night before.

I was pretty sure Professor Martin, the dear man, wouldn’t want such an image of me.

My shock quickly turned into fear, but Richard had been perfectly professional. In fact, I stood there, stunned, as he introduced himself as ‘a friend’ and charmed the socks off my professor and everyone else who came our way. He laughed at the right times, chipped in a word or two when the occasion called for it, even when the conversation turned towards one of the art pieces on the wall.

He never missed a beat. And then, at some point, when the whole gathering was being addressed and no one was looking, he conspicuously snaked his strong right arm around my waist and placed it right on the small on my back.

“What are you doing?” I’d whispered furiously, placing my left hand on his with the intention of taking it off. But that only served to initiate a skin-to-skin contact between us, making my breath hitch.

“I miss you.” He said in a low voice, bending so he could speak directly into my ear. The warm feeling of his breath fanning over my neck made goosebumps pop all over my skin.

I swallowed, my heart beating fast, “B-but we’re…”

“I know.” He said, brushing a kiss on my neck as my mouth opened up in shock, my pupils dilating, “Want to get out of here?”

I couldn’t even form a reasonable excuse not to leave with him because he’d been with me all along, discussing with my professor, and he knew that my assessment was over.

With a shaky breath, I raised my head to look into his eyes, licking my lips and gave a quick, small nod.

That was enough for him. And within minutes, after some maneuvering, we were outside, racing down the street towards his car, a giddiness coming over me as he held my hand tight in his, feeling like a teenager skipping class to go out with her bad boy first crush.

And Richard, as I came to discover, was the very definition of a bad boy.

How could he make my heart stop with just a smile of his? I couldn’t understand.

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