The Ruthless Gentleman by Louise Bay

Author:Louise Bay [Bay, Louise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-05T07:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Two

Hayden

I didn’t usually do this—take a woman to dinner, flirt, imagine her naked and clamped around my cock. But I was enjoying this buildup, the talking, the way she looked at me as if I were more fascinating than this beautiful place we were in. Of course, I’d noticed how attractive Avery was as soon as we’d met on the main deck a month ago, but the pull toward her had grown almost without me noticing. She was clever, good at her job, and perceptive. She was funny, feisty and vulnerable, and clearly devoted to her family. She also had an incredible arse, the tiniest waist and a killer smile.

I liked her inside and out. I wasn’t sure I’d ever thought that about a woman before.

My non-professional relationships with women were usually a lot simpler. I’d meet them in a bar, on the tube, or coming out of a building—it didn’t matter—and then the clock started ticking. How long would it take before we fucked? It was usually less than an hour, it rarely involved dinner and never included handholding. Then there were the two or three women I had established relationships with—they’d call me or I’d call them when I just needed to fuck. In either case, for me, it was all about the physical.

There was no doubt that every part of my body wanted every part of Avery’s, but I was enjoying her mind too. Her laugh, the stories of the rich and famous on the yachts she worked on, the look of hope in her eyes when she told me her father was doing well.

“How’s your brother doing with your dad being sick?” I asked as we sat opposite each other on the dining terrace of my hotel.

She glanced away from me and out at the darkening sky. “Good, I think. He has a new physical therapist and he’s made progress with her.”

“You said he had an accident. Was it a sporting injury?”

She blinked slowly. “Not really. We were stupid.” She paused, and I didn’t fill the silence. “We were swimming in the river. All the neighborhood kids would go every summer. You’d get all ages, from all different friendship groups, the cool kids mixing with the geeks, you know?” Her gaze flitted back to me for a second before resting on the sky.

“We did it every year. Every now and then we’d get chased away by the landowner, but we always went back—it was too much fun.” She shrugged. “Anyway, one afternoon we went down to the river; we’d swing on this rope attached to a tree and jump off into the river. I fought to go before Michael. I played the older sister card.” She shook her head. “I should have been looking out for him, not competing with him.”

Her eyes didn’t leave the sky, not because she was transfixed by the darkening view, but because she was remembering, or trying not to.

“Then it was his turn and . . . he let go in the right place, just like all the times before.

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