Ember by Amelia Jade

Author:Amelia Jade [Jade, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Aimee

“Pinch me,” she whispered as they walked in to the Liftbridge, Drake’s Crossing’s most exclusive restaurant.

Fingers slid down her lower back and tweaked her rear. Swifter than she could react his hand closed around her waist and prevented her from turning to look at him, holding her tight as they were escorted to their table.

“That,” she ground out while keeping a smile on her face, “was not what I meant. You are taking advantage of the situation.”

“Welcome to dating,” he rumbled, pulling the chair out and waiting until she’d adjusted her new dress to push it in.

Despite all the looks being sent their way and her desire to try and maintain a polite, happy façade, she felt her mouth fall open. “Did you really just use my own line against me?”

“Yes.”

She waited for him to hit her with a one-liner, but he didn’t, instead settling in and asking the waiter for a taste of both a red and a white, to see what might attract her attention. Frowning, she forced herself to keep her elbows off the table. It was hard. The desire to rest her chin on her hands while she studied the person in front of her was immense.

It had been like that ever since she’d returned from having lunch with Brian. Just a normal, relaxing, day-off lunch. She hadn’t talked about Rhys or anything of the sort. Instead, she simply wanted to hang out with her oldest friend, mentor, and boss, and see if he noticed anything amiss about her. When she’d asked him at the end, he’d said no, she seemed normal, and wanted to know why. Aimee had shrugged it off and headed out before he could ask any more questions.

When she’d walked into her apartment, Rhys has been gone, and all that was left on her laptop was a note, telling her that he’d return to pick her up, and to be ready on time. All the note had said besides that was a request to wear a specific formal dress that she’d picked up the day before. It had made her smile, because she remembered the way he’d stared at her when she emerged from the dressing room.

His eyes had been hungry and full of desire, locked on to her like a lion stalking its prey. She’d never felt so beautiful and wanted than in that minute. Aimee had relived that moment in her mind many times over the rest of the day, and now she had found out that Rhys had been doing the same. It made her tingle to know he thought of her in the dress.

So she’d worn it without hesitation, despite the high slit and backless aspect to it, both of which were things she never wore. But for Rhys, she was willing. Because he’d asked. Not demanded or ordered. But asked.

He is changing before my very eyes. I’ll show the world the good in him yet.

Many of the looks being directed their way were at her, but a good many more were going Rhys’s way.

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