Page 52 of Bitten By Desire
That didn’t even make any sense. I abruptly stood up. “Why do you keep saying that? Bennett isn’t sharing me with anyone.”
“You don’t know him as well as you think. Now take off your jacket.”
What? That was not a segue to remove my clothes!I’d stripped for him once. And I had no intention of ever doing it again.
But my body froze as he reached out and slowly pushed my jacket off my shoulders.
“I don’t like asking for things more than once. Something you should know if you’re going to work for me.” He tossed my jacket on the chair and looked at my skimpy outfit. “Is this something you’d normally wear to work?”
I waited for my heart to stop racing, but it didn’t. Just being in the same room as him made my body go haywire. “Yes.” His eyes raking over my body was inappropriate too. But somehow less inappropriate than the questions about Bennett.
His eyes travelled along my exposed midriff. “Turn for me,” he said.
Yeah, this was definitely not a normal interview. But I still turned. Because I liked the way his eyes felt on me.
He lightly touched the exposed skin on my lower back. I shivered from his touch.
“You’re scared of me,” he said quietly. “But he’s the one that hurt you.”
I turned to see him staring at my lower back. I put my hand on my exposed skin to cover the bruise. I hadn’t thought to look in the mirror to see if it was visible.
Theo took a step forward, caging me between him and the desk.
My throat made a squeaking noise.
“I would have already hurt you if I was going to, Emma. So there’s really no reason to be frightened.”
I was pretty sure that’s what a vampire would say before killing his next victim. Luring someone into a false sense of security before striking.
“And I’m not the one that you should be worried about. You should be scared of your boyfriend.”
“Bennett didn’t hurt me.”
“The bruise on your back says differently.”
I didn’t know what to say to that. I couldn’t think straight when Theo was so close to me. All I could think about was what it would finally feel like to kiss him after all these years.
“So here’s how this is going to go,” he said, keeping me caged against his desk. “I’m going to hire you. And then you’re going to stay far away from him.”
“Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive.”
“Actually, they are. And this isn’t up for negotiation. He’s dangerous, Emma.”
“Funny, he said the same thing about you.”
He lowered his eyebrows. “I’m trying to protect you. Besides, I take you for the type that prefers a real man instead of a boy.”
Theo and Bennett looked about the same age to me. Unless he was referring to how I’d slept with him ten years ago instead of one of the college students. But I hadn’t known he was the coach. I didn’t make a habit of dating older men. Or maybe he was saying he was older because he was a vampire that had been alive for hundreds of years.
He reached out and touched my knee. “Say yes.” His fingers slowly trailed up my thigh.
I didn’t even remember what he was asking. “I don’t date liars.”
“Then you shouldn’t be dating your boyfriend.”
“Bennett hasn’t…”
“I think we’ve talked enough about your ex for one night.”
