This Changes Everything by Gretchen Galway

Author:Gretchen Galway [Gretchen Galway]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance
Amazon: B013VT4BWE
Publisher: Eton Field
Published: 2015-08-11T22:00:00+00:00

18

Something had changed. It was written all over her. Sly wanted to get closer and read every word.

“What happened?” he asked, forcing himself to stay a few feet away. “You look… excited.”

“I do?” Her voice was throaty. It made him want to get her talking and listen to it for hours.

“Yes,” he said softly.

“I’ll tell you at dinner,” she said. “Where are we going?”

“A little place.”

She wore a sleeveless black dress with a loose skirt, but not too long for him to miss her girly shoes and even-more-girly toes. Had she dressed up for him?

A hint of perfume drifted over to him. He’d warned her before what happened when she smelled too good. Yet she’d done it again.

Heart rate quickening, he turned and began walking the convoluted route to the exit. “It doesn’t have any dancing.”

The sound of her laughter was like a kiss. He smiled, ridiculously pleased.

“Does it have music?” she asked.

“Don’t spoil it. Just be patient.”

“Then it does,” she said.

He was trying to seduce a musician. Of course it had music. “Maybe.”

“What kind?”

“Will you be patient?”

“Seriously. I just want to make sure we’ll be able to talk.”

He stopped walking and looked at her. Her fair hair was loose, framing her face with a platinum curtain he imagined sliding between his fingers. Now that he’d given himself permission to think about her in his bed, it was all he could think about. She was the same person, but she was a stranger. A familiar, delicious mystery.

“We’ll be able to talk,” he said.

She stared back at him. Her pupils were dark pools in the center of a blue sky.

“Is it far?” she asked.

“We could get room service.”

Smiling as if he were joking, she walked through the doors to the hotel’s circular drive entrance where several uniformed valets waited at a podium. “Are we driving?”

He paused, taking a deep breath before he followed. “No.”

“I don’t mind walking.” She unfurled a wrap and slung it around her shoulders. “I bought this today for fifteen bucks. Can you tell?”

“That you just bought it?”

“That it was only fifteen bucks,” she said. “Duh.”

“Well, yes, but only because you left the price tag on it.”

In alarm, she craned her neck around, picking at the fabric as she searched for the tag.

“Just kidding,” he said.

She smacked him on the shoulder and, to his happy surprise, slipped her arm through his. “Funny guy.”

He was feeling funny, but not the way she meant. “Oh, good. Right on time.” Ahead of them sat a black stretch limousine. “Our ride.”

Her pace didn’t slow down.

“Seriously,” he said, flagging the driver. “The restaurant sent it for us.”

She frowned. “Oh, come on.”

The elderly chauffeur jumped out and opened the back door for them.

“Thank you,” Cleo said to him, giving Sly a skeptical smile as she climbed in, and in minutes they were seated in the vast backseat, creeping through the Saturday-evening traffic.

“Do you like it?” Sly asked.

Her hands stroked over the leather. “What’s not to like?” But she didn’t say anything else until they’d reached the restaurant and were climbing out again.

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