Stockholm Syndromance: A Bad Boy Romance (Still a Bad Boy Book 4) by Ada Scott

Author:Ada Scott [Scott, Ada]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ada Scott
Published: 2016-11-01T22:00:00+00:00

Sarina

Well, getting his attention was a little easier than I thought it was going to be. He was hot on my trail from my second pass of his table.

The problem was, maybe he was a little too hot on my trail. I needed to catch his eye to make him think that he was the one who initiated contact, but I was always supposed to steer the relationship down a professional path. Money and drugs, that’s what I had to pretend to want.

My CO said to gain his trust by any means necessary, but what Ryan wanted was written as clear as day, playing out like a movie behind his eyes. That was crossing some lines, for sure.

So why did I stay on the dancefloor for so long? Why did I let it feel so good to have his eyes on me like that?

I could feel a little tingle on my body everywhere his eyes roamed, as if from gentle fingertips exploring my skin. More than once I found myself leaning back to let those imaginary fingertips explore down the front of my top, before my ass brushed up against that concealed weapon in his pants and snapped me out of it.

What was wrong with me? Guys had looked at me before without me turning into a music-video girl for them, right?

Yeah, but not like that…

Shut the fuck up, self.

“Hello?” Ryan interrupted my internal debate before it came to blows.

“Huh?”

“I said, is Champagne OK with you?”

“Oh. Sure, why not? Are we celebrating something?” I asked.

“I’ll come up with something by the time we get to the toast.” He turned to the girl standing there with a little notepad. “That’s a yes, thanks, Cindy.”

The girl underlined something, smiled, and left, giving Ryan one last lingering look over her shoulder.

“Sarina, right?” Ryan asked.

“Yeah.”

“Great, wanted to make sure I wasn’t accidentally calling you somebody else’s name all night.”

“Much appreciated. And Ryan, right?”

“Mmm. It sounds so good when you say it. Yep, that’s me.”

I rolled my eyes playfully. “You go to college at Highston?”

“Nah. I did, but I’m out now. You? Freshman?”

“Yeah, don’t tell the bouncer though. I’m twenty-two, but the girls I’m with are all eighteen and nineteen.”

Ryan held up three fingers like a Boy Scout. “Your secret is safe with me. Why the late start?”

“Late start at college?”

Ryan nodded.

“Ah, it’s a sad, shitty story. In a nutshell, I had to get away from everything. I could see my life taking a dead-end path, and if I didn’t make a change, I was afraid I’d wake up one day and find it was too late to make something of myself. So I sold everything I didn’t need, raised about twenty bucks,” I laughed, “and enrolled here. I had this idea that I’d figure out how to pay for everything as I went, but now I’m here, it’s a bit scary.”

“I’m sure you’ll be fine, you’ll figure it out. What are you studying?”

“Human Resources.”

Ryan half-stood and shuffled his way around the table until he was right next to me.

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