Vegas, Baby

Author:Theodora Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin (UK) Ltd
Published: 2014-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

What just happened? Seriously, what just happened? One minute Sunny had been two seconds away from calling the police on Cole Benton, pretty damn sure she’d unintentionally gotten tangled up with a stone-cold psycho. And the next, she was offering him the terms he’d been demanding since Sunday.

Two minutes ago, she would have said, for sure, Cole was the crazier person in this scenario, but now she didn’t know if it was him or her.

It had been the look on his face after she yelled having sex with him had been a mistake. He’d just looked so...hurt. Truly hurt. Like she had kicked him somewhere down deep.

And now she just had to know what made a man like Cole Benton look like that.

She was definitely the crazier one in this scenario, and Cole was looking down at her as if he knew it, too.

“You’re serious?” he said.

She nodded. “You want terms, and I’ve got them. Were you serious about honoring whatever I requested?”

“Mostly,” he answered. “If you requested controlling ownership of my business, I’d have to negotiate you down to a few shares.”

Sunny felt her eyes crinkle with amusement. “Why do I get the feeling that’s your version of a joke?”

He didn’t smile back, just stood there, staring down on at her. Like a hawk.

And she felt more than a little preylike. “My terms aren’t negotiable, but they are reasonable.”

He squinted in that Clint Eastwood way of his. “Define reasonable.”

“You don’t know me, and I don’t know you, but I hope you believe me when I say I’m not a greedy person. I’d never ask you for anything you couldn’t give, or anything I didn’t think you were capable of giving.”

“If I agree to honor these ‘reasonable’ terms of yours, you’ll agree to not only share my bed, but also to never purposefully fall out of communication with me or disappear without telling me where you are?” His shrewd eyes roamed over her as if he were trying to scan her mind. Trying to figure her out.

Sunny was pinged by a pinprick of guilt. He honestly seemed upset by her ignoring him all day. Not just peeved, but unsettled. “Yes, I guess I can promise that,” she answered.

Still he continued to scan her, his eyes going up and down over her face. “This isn’t how I usually do business,” he told her.

“Me, either, because once again, I’m not a hooker, and I don’t consider relationships to be business transactions. But obviously you do, so I’m putting this in ‘terms’ you can understand,” she told him, not bothering to disguise how little she thought of the idea. “If it was up to me, I’d call it ‘setting boundaries for our relationship going forward.’”

He frowned, and chose that moment to finally take his arm back. “Fine, I pre-agree to your terms.”

“Seriously?” she said not hiding her surprise. “Without even hearing what they are?”

“Yes, seriously,” he answered.

Sunny found herself having to take a deep breath, a really deep breath “Okay if you want me to sleep with you, I’m going to need three things.

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