Page 42 of Savage Cravings

I didn’t want to catch such a dangerous man.

And he was all that.

All man.

And dangerous.

Everything about him screamedexperience, and though twenty-four wasn’t young, next to him, I felt incredibly naïve. Like a lost little girl who didn’t know how to handle the world.

“What are you doing?” I asked, moving away from my depressing thoughts and onto the problem at hand.

“What does it look like I’m doing? I’m having breakfast with my stalker.”

“I am not your stalker!” I said, a little louder than I intended. Several heads in the diner turned my way, and I could feel a slight blush coming over my skin.

I was pale, and in this bright restaurant, the red was likely very noticeable.

Silas didn’t say anything for a moment.

Just smiled at me the same way he had done back at the restaurant last night.

And that smile got on my nerves.

“Stop it.”

“Stop what?” he asked.

“Stop smiling at me like that.”

“You don’t like my smile?”

The fact that he was still smiling while asking showed he wasn’t as put off as he should be.

Perhaps because he knew the truth.

Perhaps because he knew it wasn’t that I didn’t like his smile, but that I liked his smile a little too much.

Fucking hell.

I looked down at the table.

We didn’t say anything more for a bit, and I actively resisted the urge to squirm in my seat. The last thing I wanted to show him was how uncomfortable I was in his presence.

I could fake confidence and bravery.

After all, I had been doing that for most of my life.

But under his gaze, the very foundation of my being began to shake. How easily he could make me crumble.

“Do you live around here?” Silas asked me, his voice strange.

I peeked up at him, noting the way the sun beamed off his eyes, making them look almost ethereal.

I answered his question without thinking about it. “I just got to the state.”

I closed my mouth as soon as the words were out of my mouth. It wasn’t like me to share anything with anyone, especially something so personal.

I wanted to retract it and make up some lie, but the satisfaction in his eyes stopped me.

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