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“Come with me, Alexandra, and I will give you the world,” he says quietly, extending a large hand to me.

As if in a trance, I take it, my small fingers being wrapped around his big palm.

Chapter 3

Alexandra

I'm led away from the softly lit restaurant hall to the elevators.

I don't know what it is, but being led by a man anywhere just does something to me. He's so big. Literally over a foot taller than my five-foot-four frame. His shoulders are wide and move attractively as he pulls us past the doors.

He studies me unflinchingly in the reflection before us, eyes rolling over my body. But it's not in a lecherous way like most men do when they take in my curves. He does it as if he is looking at something he's never seen before. Not something he wants to conquer or possess.

Silence and tension wrap tightly around us. He's all shadow and danger and I’m wearing a flowy pale jade dress. We make a sexy couple. I shake my head.

“What are you thinking?” he says as the doors open.

Words can’t come out of my throat. I'm nervous and turned on at the same time.

“Talk to me, baby,” he says, his voice caressing over me.

My skin is on fire. “I don't know, I just — I have no idea what's happening and where you're taking me.”

He nods and then leads me into the most breathtaking room I've ever been in.

It's as wide as a hallway. At first, I think it's some kind of suite, but it's just a lavishly decorated space with expensive furniture and a single table with two chairs. Food has been set on it for two.

This feels really, really intimate, like a honeymoon thing, only I don't know this man at all, I've just met him, and he gives off dangerous vibes,murderousvibes.

Panicking, I turn away and head to the elevator. I press the downward arrow button, the doors opening, and when I step past them, they close with a cool, reassuring slide.

Dammit. My core aches, wanting to be filled, and only by a certain thing belonging to a certain man.

My finger hovers over the button that'll take me to the first floor. Seconds pass by.Just press the button.Leave, and besafe, be away from this black hole of a man.

But my body won't cooperate. The heat he left on my skin still sears me. His scent is still wrapped around me…

I open the elevator doors, and he's right outside them. Hands in his pockets, that expressionless look on his face. He studies me carefully as I realize he would've come after me had I walked away.

Again, he holds out his hand. “Come.”

Again, my hand finds his and I know I'm truly never going to escape him.

He leads us towards the table and pulls back my chair for me. I sit while he settles down opposite me.

“This room,” he says in response to my wandering eyes, “is usually a dining hall. There were guests eating in here earlier, but I had them moved and had the other tables cleared out so we could have privacy.”

“Wait,” I say. “You planned all this?”

He nods. “I saw you as soon as you walked in.” He nods again at the food before me. “Start eating the lobster, it's getting cold.”

I pick my fork up, my mind racing.

So does that mean he’d been watching me, stalking me? He planned all this as soon as he first saw me. If that was even the first time.

“Don't worry,” he says. “I haven't been stalking you. Not until tonight, of course.”

“Is what a stalker would say,” I say.

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