Page 46 of Her Every Fantasy

God, I needed my head examined.

The walk took longer than planned because Savvie decided she wanted to wander through the Supertree Grove and take a tour of the Flower Dome. I curbed my impatience as she pulled out her phone and snapped several pictures of flowers she could use in her store for her launch.

The additional reminder that we were on a ticking clock made me shove my hands into my pockets to stop from calling a stop to this grand decision to spend even a second with her outside the bedroom.

Nevertheless, I kept my mouth shut, pointed out places of interest along the way until we arrived at the street food market.

After getting our food, we found a bench close to the water. Savvie lifted her face to the sun and I couldn’t help but stare at the smooth, dark bronze perfection of her skin. Like the sun, I wanted to worship the alluring expanse of her throat, unwrap the delicious globes of her breasts and feast on her nipples. Hell, I wanted to cover every perfect inch of her with reverent kisses—

‘What’s wrong? You’ve been brooding since we left the car.’

I skewered a piece of my chilli crab and held it to her lips. She took the offering but her eyes remained on me, awaiting an answer.

Since I wasn’t going to make an arse of myselfby confessing my rampant thoughts, I chose a safer subject.

‘What’s the agenda for the week?’

She shrugged. ‘More of the same. Finish setting up and contacting the agencies I use to make sure my models are all booked. They arrive at the end of next week so it’s imperative everything’s completed so they can start rehearsals.’

‘Can you carve out a few hours for me on Friday evening?’

‘Why?’

‘It’s a surprise.’

She groaned, slid off her sunglasses to blast me with the full force of her glare. ‘Why would you do that to me?’

I grinned. ‘What?’

‘I have to wait a wholeweekfor a surprise?’

‘It’s five days. You’ll just have to trust me this time that it’ll be worth the wait.’

My statement was a little too pointed for her to ignore. And when her eyes shadowed, I knew I’d hit the nerve I’d vowed to avoid just so we could spend a few hours together without the past coming between us.

The water bottle clutched in her hand wobbled. She set it down next to her half-finished clam dish. ‘Wow, I see we’re going for the low blow.’

‘Savvie—’

‘It’s fine.’ She looked around before meeting my eyes. ‘You want to do this here?’

‘I don’t want to do anything.’

‘Tell that to your face. Tell that to your growly voice and white knuckles.’

I glanced down, noticed with an inner grimace that one hand was cupping the other so tight my knuckleswerewhite. Consciously, I relaxed them, took several deep breaths.

‘You’re right. That was a shitty thing to say.’

‘But you meant it, didn’t you? To a degree?’

I couldn’t deny it so I didn’t. Not now I knew that arsehole hadn’t even been able to give her all the orgasms she deserved. My mood took a deeper dive at the thought ofwhyshe’d given him the time of day in the first place.

Shit, I was going around in circles of my making, on the brink of spiralling out of control.

It was almost a relief when Savvie jumped to her feet and held out her hand. ‘Come on, it’s my turn to take charge of the afternoon.’ Despite her bright smile, I caught the sheen of hurt in her eyes.

I felt a tightness around my sternum I attributed to everything else but the fact that I hated seeing that look in her eyes. To make up for it, I let her drag me towards the nearest street while she toyed with an app on her phone.

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