Hard & Fast (Rules to Break #1) by Ana Gabriel

Author:Ana Gabriel [Gabriel, Ana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00TUIOU5E
Published: 2015-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The airport looks just like any other airport I’ve ever been to—long, sterile hallways, bright track lighting, stern looking guards, and crowds of people in a hurry to be somewhere. Yet it feels different, somehow. Special. I haven’t stopped smiling since we stepped off the plane. I know Cole is smirking at me, but I don’t even care if my wonderment amuses him. I’m in fricken Prague.

“What’s first thing you want to see on your list?” Cole asks.

“Old Town,” I say without hesitation. “It’s the heart of Prague, and it has all these houses and churches dating back to the thirteenth century.”

“You’ll love it,” he answers. You can see the Astronomical Clock and Old Town Hall there.”

“You researched too?” I ask, whipping my head up to look at him.

“I’ve been.”

“Oh.” I don’t know why it’s surprising that Cole’s been to Prague before. He’s an international superstar and filthy rich besides.

“We should catch a cab before it gets too late then,” he says, cutting into my thoughts. “Better to see this stuff in the daytime.”

“What? You’re coming with me?”

“Unless you’d prefer I didn’t . . .” he says.

I shake my head. “I just thought you had to be on set.”

“Not until tomorrow morning.”

A smile tugs on my lips. Cole slips his hand through mine and he pulls me toward a set of sliding glass doors. It all happens so fast that it takes me a moment stumbling beside him to fully understand what’s happening.

Cole is holding my hand.

Cole is holding my hand in public.

He looks down at our joined fingers. “Is this ok?”

I nod, suddenly shy. We’ve been naked together countless times, done downright filthy things, yet this feels like the most intimate touch we’ve ever shared.

The flight attendant pops into my head, but I shove her back out. I said it once already—jealousy doesn’t belong in our arrangement. This is strictly for fun.

“A cab?” I ask, remembering his last words.

“Is that okay?”

“Of course, it’s just . . . you laughed before when I mentioned taking a cab. And I booked a rental car. We passed the BMW place a second ago.”

“Let’s forget about the BMW,” he answers. “We’re in Prague. I don’t have to be Cole Dean here.”

I wonder if that’s why he’s holding my hand—because we’re somewhere no one would recognize us, and when we return to L.A., it’ll be back to standing a safe foot apart in public. But then I shake away that thought too. I want to enjoy my first time in Europe, not spend the whole time picking apart every interaction for deeper meaning.

Cole hails a cab and gives instructions to the driver, and then we’re crammed together on a sweaty leather seat, the city zooming by outside the windows, and I can’t take it all in fast enough. The towering cathedrals, the majestic spires, the ornate bridges, all the stone everywhere. It’s even better than I imagined. Prettier than all of the pictures on the Internet. It’s like I’ve stepped back in time.

When Cole chuckles, I realize I’m smiling ear-to-ear like a kid in a candy store.

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