Page 60 of Sweet Temptation

“Nope. I can’t even remember what happened to them.”

“They became obsolete. Like the mullet.”

“I hear that’s coming back, though,” he said dryly.

“Don’t even think about it. You have great hair. And you’re way too gorgeous for that.”

He didn’t even move, but I felt it. He stiffened. It was like he caught himself having too good a time and reeled it back in.

“And what did DJ Summer listen to back in the days of the CD?” he asked, side-stepping the compliment.

“Oh, everything you can imagine, sweetheart. But CDs came and went. Vinyl is where it’s at, for life.”

He looked at me again. I waited for him to complain about me calling him sweetheart and politely advise me not to sexually harass him. But instead, he just looked into my eyes, and… wow.

It was like he was really looking at me for the first time or something.

Me.

Not the woman he was paid to protect.

It was a penetrating, direct look… and it went directly between my legs. I wondered what it would be like to be pinned beneath that look while he pinned me in bed…

He cleared his throat a little. “I noticed the records in your music room,” he said, completely side-stepping again. “It’s quite a collection.”

“Yes, it is. I find them all over the world and bring them back with me. I have more in storage downstairs.”

“Is that what all those bins are about?”

“Absolutely.”

I picked up my fork and tried to finish my food. My appetite was coming back.

But since I wasn’t talking, Ronan went silent again.

“So… what do you make of my home?” I asked him lightly. “Am I safe and secure yet?”

He looked at me. “Yes. You’re safe.”

I tried to read between the lines of what he was saying, and what he wasn’t saying, and that look on his face.

“You think I should’ve had security before this.”

“That was up to Brody,” he said simply.

“Your opinion on the matter is obvious.”

“It’s not just you. We’re putting security in place for your whole band.”

“I’m not as famous as my band,” I protested, again. “Ashley was the frontman of a successful rock band for almost a decade. I’m a DJ, and I’m nowhere near as well-known. Plus, I look different onstage.”

“Not that different,” he said.

Which made me wonder…

He said he’d never been to my shows.

Had he been searching me online? Looking at photos?

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