Hot Water by Sparks Callie

Author:Sparks, Callie [Sparks, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Coming of Age, New Adult, forbidden romance, Contemporary Romance
Published: 2013-10-14T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Cicily

It’s so funny that the more you spend in the company of a “supposedly perfect” person, the more their little cracks start to show. When I sat with Caden on the plane, I learned so much about him. He has all these little, adorable quirks you wouldn’t expect a professional to have, and I felt honored because he shared them with me. He’s a CEO, he’s supposed to keep certain things under wraps, I’m sure. They call him the Iceman for a reason. On the plane, though, he was anything but icy. Maybe he was a little drunk, but he bared things to me that I don’t think many people know about him. One of his teeth overlapped another slightly, which is irresistibly cute. His temples are starting to grey a bit. He is a real person, too, not some flawless, robotic corporate icon.

And I thought I was turned on before.

That personal-business line? He definitely delved over it, this time. With me. There’s no mistake, this time. Maybe it doesn’t mean anything. It probably doesn’t. But as wrong as I know it would be, I want it to.

My first trip out of the tri-state area isn’t much of a trip at all. I begin to think that maybe Jacinta was wrong when she said it was one big party. Yes, it is, really, but not for us. There are crazy drunk people everywhere, nearly naked- girls all over the strip, naughty shows, gambling, drinking, and pretty much every form of debauchery going on in this town, and yet, in the Venetian, we’re strangely removed from it. The only time I’d been able to catch a glimpse of it was during the taxi ride to the hotel, and while making the mile-long trek from our hotel room to the conference. It was nine in the morning, and there were people at the baccarat tables with a beer in one hand, and a coffee in the other. They hadn’t slept.

After we left the plane, Caden disappeared, leaving me to get to the hotel on my own. I didn’t mind it, though. I knew that riding in first class would probably have me fielding all sorts of curious questions from Jacinta. I didn’t need to make her any more suspicious than she already was.

But I thought I’d at least catch a glimpse of him, once or twice. Instead, I was so busy shuttling presentation work here and there, setting up rooms, and putting out fires, that I never saw him. The first two evenings, it may have been the time change, but I collapsed into bed just after eight PM. Jacinta had called me and texted me, but I ignored her messages. I was so tired, I wanted to die.

The last night in Vegas, she grabs my arm. “I am not letting you get away, this time. We are going out.”

“All right,” I say. After three stressful days, I could stand to blow off some steam. I tell her I’ll meet her in the lobby, by the concierge desk, and run to get ready.

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