Her Forbidden Crush by Anderson Natalie

Author:Anderson, Natalie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

Six

Lexie marched back to the bus as soon as they were off the Eye. She wasn’t playing his game. She wasn’t going to let him get away with a lame excuse and think he could get what little he wanted that easily.

“What are you going to do?” Luke broke the silence ten minutes later when they were on board and taking in a new sightseeing route. “You’re going to stay in London, right?” He shifted in his seat, his knee obviously bugging him.

“I’m not sure,” she said, refusing to feel bad about his injury. He’d been the one insisting on doing this today. But she was glad he’d gone for a total topic change.

“Why don’t you build your own online travel company?”

She laughed in disbelief. “No.” She shook her head. “I can’t design the site. I could run it, but I’d need huge technical support.”

“So get technical support.” He leaned closer. “All those clients you had, they must be looking for a new service.”

“They’re in Australia,” she drawled sarcastically. It would never work.

“What does that matter? It's online. And if there was a need there you can bet there’d be a need here.”

She frowned. “You do like to make the impossible seem possible, don’t you?”

“Do I?” A laugh was shaken from him.

“It’s what you do. This amazing feat and then that incredible job and then something else altogether astounding. You’ve always got some mission on.”

“You say that like it’s a bad thing.”

Because sometimes it was. Because that’s what she was today, wasn’t she? Another mission to him. Another challenge. That’s why he was standing so close all the time, sending intimate smiles her way. Thanks to his knee he had nothing else to do. It wasn’t that he was that into her. The guy just couldn’t be without a goal—no matter how small it might be. “I guess it depends on each mission. But is that all life is to you?”

“What do you mean?”

“Why do you have to win all the time? Win the scholarships, be the youngest consultant, get the plum job transfer, land the plush apartment, date the models, do the marathon… When is it enough?”

“It’s never enough,” he grinned, clearly treating the conversation as a joke.

“For whom?” She really wondered. “Do you need people’s admiration that badly? The kudos?” She shook her head.

He sat back, his forehead creasing. “It’s not about impressing other people.”

“No?”

“I don’t care what other people think of me,” he said bluntly. “But I do have a ‘need-to-win’ gene. And I’m not going to apologize for that.”

No. And in truth she didn’t really want him to. But she wasn’t a thing to be won—no woman was. “You know, all the things you did inspired me once.”

“Once?”

She nodded. He’d inspired her to do something she didn’t think she could do—something as little as riding on a Ferris wheel. That day had been a turning point. He’d helped her lay the first solid block of confidence within herself. Then he’d broken her heart. But in some

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