TOMCATS: (BOOK TWO) by Honey Palomino

Author:Honey Palomino [Palomino, Honey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

HARLEY

Dinner went by like a dream. Blaze chose well, reserving a courtyard table at Il Cielo in Beverly Hills. One of the most romantic restaurants in town, I was impressed he’d been so thoughtful. We sat at a private candlelit table under the stars, feasting on lobster, calamari, and risotto so delicate it melted in our mouths.

By the time we’d polished off a bottle of wine and eaten like royalty, we’d shed any awkward first-date jitters and were laughing and joking with each other like two old friends.

That’s what Blaze felt like to me and friends were a rarity in my life. Outside of a few close girlfriends, I didn’t have much time for new friends. To find one in Blaze that felt like an old connection was special and I knew it.

He didn’t treat me like I was a number. He didn’t grill me on what it was like to be in Hollywood during the golden era. He didn’t ask me what famous people I knew.

He treated me like I was special, but it was the fact that he treated me like I was just any other woman that appealed to me. I was used to be treated like a celebrity. His lack of knowledge of who I was, or who I used to be, was addicting and foreign and completely intoxicating. I found myself opening up to him in ways I usually didn’t with others.

“Tell me about where you grew up,” he asked, after the tiramisu arrived.

“Oh, it was a world away from here,” I said. “I grew up in Savannah, Georgia. It was a tiny town back then, still isn’t much bigger, I’ve heard.”

“You haven’t been back?”

“Oh, not in a very long time.”

“Family?”

“All my family has passed now. When I turned eighteen, I got out of there as fast as I could. Los Angeles became my home and it’s stayed that way.”

“I just moved here a few months ago,” he said. “I grew up in Las Vegas. Danced there for years, until Richie met Tillie and we all came out here to start Tomcats.”

“It’s a remarkable place,” I said. “Richie and Tillie are your partners?”

“Yes, along with a few others. Daine and Fox, too.”

“Looks like it’s doing quite well,” I said. “I was hesitant to go at first, but you made it worth it.”

“I don’t usually do this, you know,” he said.

“Do what?”

“Meet up with clients outside of work,” he said.

I nodded, smiled, pleased I was the one that made him break the rules.

“Right, because it’s against the rules.”

“That’s one reason,” he said. “But I’ve found it’s just as easy to keep things separate.”

“I’m sure there’s no shortage of available women for a man like you, in or out of work.”

“That’s true,” he shrugged. He wasn’t arrogant, he was just confident, and I knew I was last in a long line of women to drink from his well. That didn’t make it taste any less sweet to me. Though I suspected he might think so. “But you…”

“Me?”

“You’re different than the women I usually date.

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