softly when she was finished.
He grunted his replied.
"I'll leave you now. Please take your time getting dressed. I’ll be waiting outside the door."
Alexis turned to leave, and was surprised when he grabbed her wrist, pulling her slightly toward him.
"I know what you are doing, Alexis." He accused harshly, swiftly sitting, the sheets falling low around his hips. His eyes were blazing with a heady mix of lust and anger. "It won't work."
Applying an irreproachable look on her face to cover thehurt she felt, Alexis pulled her wrist free and lifting her chin defiantly, "I don't know what you mean, Mr. Kane," she announced, saying his name slowly just to piss him off.
It worked.
She stared at the ticking muscles in his jaw in fascination.
Yup, he was definitely pissed.
Looking back up, into his eyes, she told him in her most professional manner, "I'll be outside the door." And turned to leave.
Alexis could feel the heat of his gaze on her. Looking back over her shoulders impishly, she bantered nonchalantly, "And please do hurry, I have another client after you."
She flicked her thick curls over her shoulders, and left him glaring after her, with a wide grin on her face.
I get under his skin. Good. Let the torture continue
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It wasn't professional to tell him to hurry, but he seemed to bring out her mischievous side. She really did have another client, though it was Katie. He didn't need to know all of that, she thought, smiling deviously to herself, as she poured cold water into a cup and waited for him to dress.
A split second later, Noah came out of the room, all arrogant, self-righteous and brooding. He’d left the top two buttons of his shirt unbuttoned, teasingly flaunting the top of his bronzed chest…just the way she liked.
She handed him the cup of cool water with shaky fingers and watched as he lifted it to his perfectly sculpted lips.
Alexis watched him through her long lashes, as he drank the cool water.
She hoped he couldn't tell the affect he had over her when she watched his throat convulse as he drank. She swallowed, her pulse picking up speed and her breathing escalated.
How can a man make drinking water, out of a paper cup, look so fucking sexy!
Dear lord he made her want to throw herself at him and say 'screw friendship, one night's enough!' But she stopped herself just in time.
She watched Noah crush the cup in his hands and throw it in the trash next to him, his eye's never leaving hers.
His stare was intense, unnerving and almost unbearable. The tension between them thickened the air, making it hard for her to breathe. She felt the power he held back, it emanated from him, reaching to her, circling her in its dark swirls, sinking into her nerve-wrecked body.
Tearing his gaze from hers, he turned to walk away.
Looking back over his shoulder at her, his steely blue gaze ensnared her. "Have fun with your next client."
The red little devil on her shoulder made her say, "Oh, I will."
She saw his eyes narrow and his jaw clench, before he turned and left.
Alexis walked into Eden with her head held high and her best friend on her arm. Cadence received another invite from Harper earlier that morning, this time from himself with a bouquet of Cadence's favorite flowers: orchids. Exotic ghost orchids.
Cadence accepted and afterward had pounded on Alexis's door and dragged her dress shopping. They spent nearly two hours searching for the perfect dresses.
Looking down at herself now and Alexis couldn't regret it.
The dress she had on, encompassed anything she’d ever owned in her entire life! And was probably the most expensive thing she would ever own. Damn Cadence’s expensive tastes in clothes!
Harper spotted them almost immediately and walked right over to them, his eyes divesting Cadence of her newly acquired dress. She looked at her best friend and nodded in approval. Cadence was absolutely drop-dead gorgeous, especially in that dress that looked enchanting on her, her creamy brown
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