Page 5 of One Night to Fall
“And?” I goad, not giving him an inch and trying like hell not to think about all theincheshe gave me.
“And I don’t use my real name when I’m out.” He huffs, belatedly adding, “Too many Rocky movie references.”
“Seriously?”
“You’d be surprised,” he says and when I don’t reply, he adds, “or not. Look, Jesse, I didn’t lie to you. Nate—Nathan—is my middle name.”
“You said you were here onbusiness.”
“I was. Iam.” He motions around the room.
“No, this is noton business.This is ‘I got a job at the place your sister and brother-in-law fucking work and own’ or whatever they’re doing.”
“So what part are you mad about exactly?” he asks, leaning his hips against the massage table.
I open my mouth before closing it, the low soothing music and smell of oil lulling me into something a lot less confrontational than when he walked in here.
“You’ve had your hands on me,” I growl, and his lips twitch just the slightest bit. “How the hell am I supposed to?—”
With what appears to be incredible restraint, Nate, orAdrian, pushes off the table to stand at his full height.
“Do you want to cancel?” he asks, his eyes dancing with amusement and something else that looks a lot like vulnerability.
“I don’t want to get you in trouble, but how am I supposed to be naked on there with your hands all over me and not get hard?”
This time he chuckles, a wide smile stretching across his handsome face. Sober me knowsexactlywhy drunk me took him home.
“I promise to remain professional, Jesse.”
I scoff. No way I’m gonna be the only one with his dick up around here. And now I’m itching for a fight, so I take a step closer and another until I’ve closed the distance between us.
“And what about you?” I let my gaze trail down his body before moving up to meet his jade eyes, the ones that had held me captive in that dimly lit bar.
“What about me?”
“You’ll remaincompletelyunaffected?” I ask, tilting my head slightly to the side. “The whole time?”
“I’d really like to keep my job,” Adrian says, his voice low and sexy. “It’s not like I knew you’d walk in here as my client today, so yeah, I will do my best to remainunaffected.”
“I’m not going to report you to my sister.” I chuff out a laugh and shake my head.
“Then what do you want?” he asks, eyeing the clock. “You’re already down to seventy minutes.”
“How about a wager?”
4
ADRIAN
Exiting the room while Jesse undresses seems unnecessary, but I need the five minutes to get my shit under control.
Fuck, he’s sexy.
I hadn’t put it together when Wren had talked to me earlier. She’d saidmake sure you take good care of my brother. Would she still feel the same if she knew justhow goodwe’d been a month ago?
I packed up my life a few hours from here for a chance to work at Mountain Side Salon and Spa. And despite the interview being more like an interrogation, Merrick had offered me the job on the spot. It was a hell of a gamble but it had paid off.
Big time.
