Branded by Scarlett Finn

Author:Scarlett Finn [Finn, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SFinn
Published: 2017-03-05T18:30:00+00:00

The rest of the meal was pleasant. He could make her laugh and she hadn’t expected he’d be capable of that after the story she’d told tonight. Archer pointed out people at the bar, giving her an insight into what he did by sharing his observations. Some of the patrons he knew, some he didn’t. But something about each one intrigued him enough to monitor them.

He told her what he liked about what he did and what he didn’t. Nya told him more about how she’d ended up in Sizzle working under Tag and with Jamie. It was obvious that Archer was comfortable in this restaurant. He ordered dessert, ordered more drinks, and was happy to sit drinking and talking, sharing stories with her. It didn’t seem that he was in any hurry to leave or to run away from her, despite her revelations.

Archer paid the bill then took her hand as they walked out of the restaurant and down the block to where his car was parked. But when he unlocked the door, she stepped back and dropped his hand.

“I’m only a couple of blocks from here,” she said. “I can walk to my place. I had a really good night.”

Turning his back to the car, he frowned at her. “I can take you home,” he said. “The car’s right here anyway. I’m not going to leave you in the middle of the street.”

It was sweet that he was worried, though his scowl sort of offset the sentiment. “I’ll be fine,” she said.

But he was already shaking his head. “I don’t leave my dates on shady street corners. I walk you to your door, put you inside, and if you choose to go out again after, that’s your decision. But we’ll stand on this street all night before I’ll let you take one step by yourself without me beside you.”

Protective instinct, she wondered, or was he a chancer who was hoping for a happy ending? “We did this backwards,” she said, walking into his arms, forcing him to hold her by the way she tucked her body in close to his. “Sex and then dinner, that’s the wrong way around, isn’t it?”

“I’m happy for a replay,” he said. “At your place or mine.”

“I’m sure you are. But I… I just don’t know if that’s a good idea. We’re rushing into this because we shared an intense experience and the sex was amazing and… I’m just worried if we keep going at this speed, we’ll burn out too fast.”

“Hey,” he said, resting a hand on the back of her head and closing his fist to gather her hair to pull her head back so she’d look at him. “If you want to go home alone tonight, you go home alone. I won’t give you many free passes, but I’ll give you this one, this night. But that doesn’t change the fact that I’ll be walking you to your door and listening to you lock it before I walk away from you.

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