Page 8 of Her Older Sheikh

I really thought he was serious for a moment there, but I think we're flirting still, and so I bite my lip like he has meterriblyworried. "I don't think so."

He leans even closer, and my lungs threaten to collapse as his scent envelopes me.

"Why not?"

"Because you strike me as the dangerous type."

"If that's what you think..." Mr. Mine gently runs his knuckles down my cheek as he speaks, and it's all I can do not to gasp and shiver.

"Then you're absolutely right. I'm not someone good or nice. I'm bad in every unimaginable way there is—-"

He looks at me under his extraordinarily long lashes, and my inner folds ache and swell.

"But we both know it's all those things as well that has your pussy crying out for my dick."

Holy, holy, holy...fuck-a-holey.

I can't believe he just said that, but on the other hand, it also feels very much like him to say the words, and while I know these things are supposed to scare and offend good girls like me—-

That's just not how the real world works, ever since Internet became a thing.

Nowadays, you can be just like me, a home-schooled island girl who never smokes, drinks or parties. I'm the kind of girl who never wants to do drugs and always goes to church on Sundays—-but who also happens to own a Kindle full of dirty books and uses a VPN to watch porn,incognito.

Girls like me are neither good nor bad. Rocking the boat isn't our thing, but we do want to get into trouble now and then, andmyMr. Mine?

He's exactly the kind of man that he says he is. He's everything Ishouldn'twant, and that's why he's a man I can't trust. But for him to imply that I only want him because of that...

That's where he's wrong.

So, so wrong.

I want him because heistrouble, but I also want him because I know there's something special between us.

And it's the same for you, isn't it, Mr. Mine?

You may not be ready for it, but deep, deep inside you know it's true.

You know we have something special between us, and from the first moment our eyes met, you were also looking at me like I'm just as much trouble for you.

And that's what I don't get, really.

Am I not supposed to be someone that Mr. Mine can want and have?

Chapter Two

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

The spell between us breaks when a waiter shows up out of nowhere to hand each of us a menu. I feel a little self-conscious all of a sudden, and I quickly open the menu to hide my face behind it.

What now, self?

My brain says one thing, but my heart says another. It's crazy enough that I'm yearning for someone like him, but it's even crazier that Mr. Mine actually wants me back. I know there's every chance his desire for me is a one-off thing, and that my novelty can wear off the moment he gets what he wants.

I know that.

But still.

He's the kind of man who can have any girl he wants, but isn't it just the craziest thing that he's been looking at me like I'm as unreachable as a star?

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