Craving the Off-Limits Billionaire (Xenakis Book 2) by Clare Connelly

Author:Clare Connelly [Connelly, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

She was right. Their affair had lasted longer than he usually allowed relationships to run, but that hadn’t altered the fact it had been meaningless. No, not exactly meaningless, but future-less. He’d been careful to avoid creating the impression that he wanted anything more from her than fun. And he’d wanted to make her smile. To make her laugh. After everything she’d been through with her asshole of an ex, it had seemed like the least he could do. A mutually beneficial fling. Except, those last few days, something had shifted between them, and simple sex had started to seem a lot like something else. So he’d done the smart thing and shut it down before she could get the wrong idea about him, before she could start to want a future with him.

He’d done it quickly, firmly, like ripping off a band aid. Maybe it had been a tad abrupt but that didn’t explain why she was looking at him as though he were the devil brought to life.

The smart thing to do now was to let her go.

So why did he lift a hand, pressing it to the wall at her right, effectively blocking one exit from her? Why did he bring his body closer, staring into her eyes, his lips close enough for their breath to mingle?

“Then forget what happened two years ago. Let’s talk about now.”

Two years ago, he’d gotten to understand every flicker that moved in her eyes. He’d gotten to understand every lift of her lips, every twitch of her features. He’d known everything she was thinking. But her face was impassive now, her lips barely moving as she returned his gaze.

“What do you want to talk about?” She almost sounded bored. That drove a part of him crazy.

“You.”

She arched a perfectly shaped dark brow. Not plucked and waxed, but naturally long and straight. So much of her beauty came down to nature. From her complexion to her smile, to her teeth that were white and even, to a look of radiance that seemed to shine from every pore. She’d been breathtaking the first moment he’d met her, and she was breathtaking now. God, he wanted her.

The realization hit him right between the shoulder blades. He had no business wanting her. But up close like this, he had an irresistible urge to wade through time and make her his again. To kiss her like he once had.

“To what end, Grayson?” She called his bluff. “We’re not friends. We’re not anything to each other. So why would we discuss me. Or you. Or anything?”

“For old time’s sake?”

She flattened her lips. “I’m not into that. The past is in the past.”

“Fine. Let’s talk about the present. I didn’t know you were still waitressing.”

In the month they’d spent together, she’d talked about wanting to go back to school, to study architecture. She’d never really explained why she hadn’t been able to go to college straight out of school. He’d asked, but she’d dodged the question and in an effort to keep things between them light, he’d let it go.

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