Page 45 of Accidentally Mine
She eyed the elegant setting before dropping her gaze to the menu.“I don’t know what to order.”
“May I?”I asked, motioning to the menu as the waiter arrived.
She nodded.“Oh.Please.”
I told the waiter that we’d share the first of the two five-course menus offered, which provided a sampling of foods, starting with Kumamoto oysters.That way, she could decide what she liked best.
“I chose the first menu for one reason and one reason only,” I said after we handed our menus to the waiter.
“Why?”
“Chocolate mousse for dessert.”
She licked her lips.“I knew I liked you for a reason.”
“Well, we do have to make it through four other courses first.”
She groaned.“Mmmm.After that car ride, I’m more interested in what’s going to happen after dessert.”Her eyes went wide, as if she couldn’t believe she’d said that.
My cock pulsed, and I shifted in my seat, my pulse kicking up in hope.“And what’s that?”
She gave me a sly grin I hadn’t seen from her before.Wicked.My cock hardened further.“Use your imagination.”
I shifted forward, digesting that, then dropped my voice a decibel.“Don’t tease me or I’ll order the check before we’ve even had our appetizer.”
We spent the rest of the evening with our eyes locked, sharing plates of lobster, quail, foie gras, and littleneck clams that went perfectly with our quiet conversation.The headache didn’t intrude like it usually did.The noise of conversation at other tables didn’t bother me.My mind didn’t race with things I might have forgotten.I felt…good.Damn good.
Two hours later, the check came, and I was far from done with the evening.And I definitely hadn’t had my fill of her.
We walked out of the Pru building, under the light of the Lord and Taylor sign.I held her hand.She was warm and flushed and tipsy, and even more men were watching her.She looked like a fucking star, someone whose light everyone wanted to be close enough to admire.I wanted to stay in her glow, as long as she’d let me.
“It’s a nice night,” she said, tilting her beautiful face up to the sky.“Can we walk a little?”
I couldn’t get enough of her.I wanted to take as long as it took to commit every glorious curve and dimple on her body into my fucked-up brain.“Yeah.”
I leaned into the open car window and told the driver to take the rest of the night off, that we’d take the T if we had to, since it was barely ten and I doubted we’d be out past one when the subway shut down.
She tottered a little in her heels, and I wrapped my arm around her.She peered up at me.“Didn’t you say you live in this neighborhood?”
“Beacon Hill,” I said as she pressed against me.“Overlooking the Common, a few blocks away.”
“La-di-da,” she laughed, giving me a flirty little smile.“That’s pretty hoity-toity of you.”
I shrugged.“My father used to tell me that if you find a neighborhood you like, you buy the best house you can afford in it.By the time I was looking, Key Technologies had really taken off, and I could afford a lot.”
“Really?So you were a millionaire by the time you were, what?Twenty-five?”
I shook my head, raised my thumb to the sky in a motion for her to up that.
“Twenty-eight?How old are you now?”
“Thirty.”I hugged her tighter against me.“I first patented the key when I was twenty-two.It took off right away, so that’s when I made my first million.I made my firstbillionwhen I was twenty-five.”
I took another step before I realized she’d stopped walking.When I reached back and took her hand, drawing her closer to me, she moaned, “That’s a little bit intimidating.”
I laughed.How anyone could be so cute and sexy at the same time was beyond me.“It’s just money.”
“Yeah.Which happens to be the thing that makes the world go round.”
