incredibly attracted to him at that moment. Until he said--
“So, we will do what we've always done, I will fuck my beautiful little girl in private while I maintain my public persona with Raven,” he said and tugged on my earlobe with his lips.
“Wait! What?”
“Come on, Lexi, you know the score. I just cannot go around in public with you.”
“Me? What's wrong with me? Excuse me for stating the obvious, Aiden, but Raven is a porn star. You're saying she is better for your public image than I am?”
“She wasn't my stepdaughter.”
“Give me a break,” I said and walked to the other side of the elevator. “You hurt me!”
“I'm about to hurt you a lot more, but you like that, don’t you?” He said and winked. “Why do you keep walking away from me?”
“Can you seriously not see why I'm upset?”
“Well,” he said and sighed, “yesterday, I suppose I would be able to see why you'd be upset at the discovery that I have a, well, Raven. But today...isn’t it a different story?”
“I don’t--”
Aiden pulled his cell phone out of his pocket and held it up in front of my face.
“Read the screen,” he said.
It was a text from Devon, sent the night before: Dude, just want to let you know Lexi is here with me and she is staying with me .
I looked at him over his phone and he winked.
“Cat got your tongue? Ah, here we are,” Aiden said as the elevator stopped and the doors opened.
“I am not going anywhere with you,” I said and leaned against the elevator wall.
Aiden cocked his head and stared at me.
“Why not?”
“Because you broke my fucking heart, that's why not! Do you have any idea how I felt about you? How I have always felt about you?”
“But last night changed things, no?” Aiden said and tapped on his cell phone. “Now, we're even. Come on. Enough of this.”
“No,” I said and pressed the button to close the elevator door.
“Okay fine, I’m not upset in the least about this thing with Devon. I understand that you were upset. Actually, if you think about it, it’s a good thing. Devon will be our cover.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Well, everyone will think you’re Devon’s girl and it will give us a chance to be together without arousing Raven’s suspicions. She is one jealous bitch, Lexi,” Aiden said and laughed. “You wouldn’t believe it.”
“I don’t believe this, Aiden,” I said and slammed my finger against the elevator button. “What the fuck is wrong with this thing?”
“I disabled it. Now get out before maintenance comes,” Aiden said and grabbed my arm.
I dug my heels into the floor and he tugged on my arm.
“You want to play hard to get, Lex? Fine.”
Aiden grabbed me and picked me up and threw me over his shoulder.
“What the fuck are you doing?” I said as I kicked him in the kidneys.
“Calm down,” he said as he carried me from the elevator into the foyer of his suite. “I told you, you were coming with me.”
Aiden placed me on the couch in the living room of the penthouse and walked to the bar.
“What do you want to drink?”
“Nothing,” I said and crossed my arms over my chest.
“It is a bit early, but scotch it is.”
Aiden put a couple of ice cubes into two stocky rocks glasses and filled them each with scotch. He walked toward me and smiled.
“Have I told you how good you look to me?” he said and held out a glass.
“Have I told you that I don’t want a drink?”
“Don’t be ridiculous,” he said and grabbed my hand. “Drink.”
Aiden pulled a large leather ottoman over in front of the couch and sat down in front of me. He took a drink of his scotch and pushed my glass to my mouth and tipped it up.
“That’s a good girl,” he said, “get a nice drink into you.”
Scotch poured out of my mouth and ran down my chin. I pushed the glass away from my lips.
“I don’t want a drink.”
“What do you want then?” Aiden said and inched the ottoman toward me.
“I want to go