Page 5 of The Billionaire's Kiss
Warner shook her hand politely. “Was he real? I was under the impression that he was just a character in a book written many centuries ago.”
“Are you a scholar as well as a magnate?” Mona asked him, a slight frown on her pouting mouth.
“I wouldn’t say so, but Ihavegone to college, and Ihavestudied literature. But enough about me.” He looked at the rest of the group as more people got off the elevator. “Will you be joining us on tour?” he asked them.
Nodding, six more people joined us, making us quite the bunch. “We should go before more show up,” I muttered before taking a sip of champagne.
Mona’s eyes were on my drink. “Oh, goody,” she said with her shrill, nasally voice. “We get free drinks on this tour.”
Suddenly, I didn’t feel nearly as special as I had a few minutes before. The brochure had said the resort gave out free drinks to the guests, I remembered.
Given that I had a job similar to his, I should’ve known that Warnerhadto be nice to me. I thought that he might’ve had the hots for me, but nothing could’ve been further from the truth.
At least I had the alcohol to cool the embarrassment that swept through my body. “Back to the bar we go, then,” I muttered under my breath.
Warner didn’t offer me his arm this time. He led the pack back to the corridor as he rambled on about the tons of concrete that went into building the resort. And something was said about the zillions of lights that lit up the place.
I got lost in the back of the group as the jetlag came rushing back. As we neared the bar, I looked back, thinking about turning and going up to my room to take a nap. My feet kept shuffling forward though, as if they wanted to go on the tour that was no longer just for me.
A hand on my shoulder made my head turn back to the front. There stood Warner, a smile on his handsome face. “How about you get behind the bar and make me one of your specialties?”
I smiled, thinking maybe I was getting the special treatment after all.
