Closer by Roxie Wilde

Author:Roxie Wilde [Wilde, Roxie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter7

Charlotte

“Well Xander, this has been a lovely dinner but I have an early morning appointment with some sharks from some awful company.”

I smiled at the man as I spooned the last bit of dessert into my mouth. I knew that most women on a date— I was no longer pretending this was anything else— wouldn’t indulge, but I could never resist the sweeter things in life.

Case in point, the delectable man sitting across from me with the midnight hair and the ocean blue eyes.

“That sounds terrible. I think I should make sure you get a good night’s sleep.”

He had thrown out a dozen statements like that throughout the night, and they were beginning to wear me down. Not that it was hard when every cell of my body was screaming at me to climb him like a tree.

“You talk an awful lot, but I’m beginning to think that’s all it is.”

He flashed me a look I couldn’t read. It wasn’t a question, but close. Like the rest of his facial expressions, it smoldered so intensely that even after I looked away, I could see him in my mind’s eye. He shone so brightly that he left an afterimage burned into my retinas.

“Surely not. I know you can feel it.” He reached across, turning my hand palm up, and dragged one big finger across my palm. I shivered, bit my lip, and tried to will myself not to blush the deep crimson I could feel creeping across my cheeks and chest alike.

“I don’t know what you mean.”

I had meant my words to be flippant and off-hand, but my voice betrayed me every bit as much as the rest of my body. It came out shaky and weak.

He grinned. Cocky bastard.

“Fine.” He called for the check, and I let him. His money might have been an illusion, but it was still nice not to pay for once.

“Take a walk with me. Give me a few more minutes of your time. I promise you that after that, I’ll fix your phone and you won’t ever hear from me again.”

I fixed him with a pointed stare. This had been his game all along, I knew. The dinner had been delightful, eye-opening, and terrifying. He wasn’t just a pretty face, and that made him doubly dangerous.

“Fine. One walk.”

“One walk on the beach.”

I rolled my eyes. “That’s twenty minutes away.”

“I know a shortcut.”

I quirked one eyebrow.

“You’ve been in town less than a day. How do you know a shortcut between here and Santa Monica?”

He grinned, and my heart melted. “I told you, I’m more than just a nice ass.”

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