The Sex Cure by Cara Lockwood

Author:Cara Lockwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-09T16:32:08+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

HARLEY FELT UNDERDRESSED for the massive dining room she found herself in. The dining room was practically bigger than her whole Brooklyn apartment and she wondered, again, how anyone could afford this much real estate in Manhattan. The cost of the penthouse must be mind-boggling. She tiptoed on her sky-high stilettos, noting that even in her tallest shoes she came nowhere near to Wilder’s height. The man was a pure wall of muscle, muscle in a six-thousand-dollar suit from Barneys. He pulled out her plush dining room chair and then sat kitty-corner from her at the end of the sleek table that sat twelve, easily, not far from the big silver chandelier in the middle of the white-and-chrome room. Harley glanced down at the many pieces of cutlery on either side of her gold-rimmed plate and struggled to remember what her mother had taught her about fancy table settings. Outside, in, she thought. She eyed the far fork and picked it up to delicately take a bite of her beet salad in front of her. Harley tried not to worry about the tiny fork laying just north of her plate. She had no idea what to do with that.

“This is...” Harley struggled for the words “...formal.”

“I don’t eat in this room very often,” Wilder said. “But I asked the chef to make something special tonight. To make up for my bad behavior. So that meant breaking out the good china.”

“I doubt you have any bad china.” She eyed the white plates with the no-doubt-actual-gold rims.

He grinned, a bright white dazzling smile and his dark eyes lit up a bit. “Do you like wine, Ms. Vega?”

“Occasionally,” she said.

“Red or white?”

“Red.”

As if poised with an ear to the door, a servant came then, and filled their stemless wineglasses with a big bold red. From the look of the label, the wine was as old as the table, or more so.

“A good vintage,” he told her, as he inhaled, his nose poised on the rim of the glass.

She did the same and inhaled a fruity bouquet of rich goodness before she tasted the complex juicy wine. She swallowed and thought this might be the best wine she’d ever tasted. Probably one she could never afford. She felt herself suddenly relieved to have the wine. She was uncharacteristically nervous and thought the wine might help calm her. She tried to do a quick scan of her feelings and realized she was genuinely nervous to be alone with the man, in a setting where she couldn’t use her notepad as a shield. Maybe she should’ve gone to meet her friends. Maybe this had been a mistake.

“Amazing,” she said, taking another sip.

“Glad you like it.” A warm fuzzy feeling filled her stomach, and she wondered if it was the wine already or the half smile on Wilder’s face.

“So what happened? With Lucinda?”

“She’s trying to steal the company from me. I had to be at the office to stop a few of the sales going through,” he said, frowning.

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