Solid Gold Seduction (The Drakes of California) by Day Zuri

Author:Day, Zuri [Day, Zuri]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

“Rape you? Girl, you’re overreacting.”

“I don’t think so.” Once again, Charli tried to go around him. And once again, Cedric blocked her path.

“Cedric, I don’t want to talk to you. Ever. Now move!”

“Not until we settle this little...misunderstanding. You’re not the only one who remembers that night. Your grandfather’s party, our families all happy, drinking and whatnot. You had on that cute little minidress, teasing me, flirting with me all night.”

“You are such a liar. At the time my grandfather had that dance, animals were my best friends. Boys were the last thing on my mind.”

“So you tried to get everyone to believe. But I knew you were hot to trot.”

“Back then you were too ignorant to know much of anything.” She looked him up and down with disdain. “I see nothing much has changed.”

Cedric’s eyes narrowed. He took a step closer.

Charli took a step back and placed a suggestive hand on her purse. Cedric didn’t miss the gesture and backed up a bit.

“If you thought I tried to attack you, then why didn’t you tell anybody? Why did you leave the barn, go back to the party and act as though nothing had occurred?”

“Because I was ashamed!” she spat, tears threatening to spill as memories escaped from where she’d locked them. “Because the last thing I wanted was for anyone else to know how stupid I’d been, how naive I was to believe that you actually wanted to come with me and see a baby colt!”

Cedric’s laugh was low and sinister. “Baby, what I was looking for that night? I still want to see it.”

This time it was Charli who took a step forward, anger guiding her moves. “Listen, you pigheaded jerk, and listen closely. I’m going to try one last time to penetrate that thick thing above your shoulders that usually houses a brain. Obviously not in your case but...here goes.

“I am not interested in you. I have never been interested in you and never will be. There is no part of the words relationship, friendship or acquaintance that I want to establish with you. If you were the last person on earth and held the last glass of water, I’d die rather than drink it. The only thing you are to me is someone that I used to know. And the best thing, the right thing and the only thing you can do for me is this. Leave. Me. Alone!”

With this, Charli pushed past him and placed her hand on the door handle.

“Bet you’d never say anything like that to Warren,” Cedric snapped from behind her.

She whirled around. “Warren Drake has more class in his toenail than you do in your entire body.”

She pushed open the door, entered the store and had no idea how long after she left Cedric continued to stand there, or the evil thoughts he vowed to see through to the end.

Later, Charli was still trying to calm down from the afternoon confrontation when her phone rang. When she didn’t immediately recognize the number, she started not to answer it.

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