Page 66 of Bitten By Desire
I glared at him. Why did he keep trying to get me to take off my clothes?
“I can’t have you leaving a trail all over the hardwoods.”
“Fine.” I unzipped my boots and tossed them on the rug in the entryway. “Happy?”
He handed me Zoey’s jean jacket. “You’re shivering.”
“I’m angry.”
“At me? Or at your boyfriend? Because you looked relieved to see me back there.” He reached out and gently touched the side of my face, making me shiver even more. “Tell me what happened.”
“Nothing happened.” I stared at him. “Bennett says he doesn’t really know you. Do you know him? Because it sure seems like the two of you hate each other.”
“This is all on Bennett, not me.”
“How?”
“Let’s just say I’m not a fan of him or his friends.”
“What does that mean? You just hate people who work at banks?” I pulled on the jacket, hating that Theo was right. I was cold. But it was his fault.
“No.” He stared at me.
“Did he steal money from you or something?”
“Or something.”
Wait, what?“Bennett stole from you?” I was seriously regretting moving my money around.
“Come on, you need to eat.” He left me standing in the foyer.
I followed him into the kitchen where there were takeout bags waiting. “What did Bennett steal from you?”
“I thought you may not have gotten a chance to eat,” he said, ignoring my question entirely.
Of course I hadn’t gotten a chance to eat. Because he’d stormed into the bank and made a scene. “Are you not going to answer me?”
“Eat and I will.”
I hadn’t actually expected him to say yes. And I was really hungry. “Deal.”
He pulled out my chair for me.
Agreeable and acting like a gentleman? He was up to something. But I sat down anyway and opened up one of the bags. And then another from a different restaurant. And another. “What is all this?”
“You left last night before I had a chance to order food. I never got a chance to ask you what you like.”
Yeah…he was definitely up to no good. “Any of it would have been fine.” But all of it was obsessive. I pulled out a container of lo mein and snapped my chopsticks apart.
He watched me eat.
I swallowed down my bite. “Aren’t you going to join me?”
“I’ve already eaten.” He just kept staring at me.
Okay.“So tell me. What did Bennett steal from you?”
“Something that doesn’t belong to him.”
