Sweet Seduction Sabotage by Nicola Claire Read Free Book Online Page B

of air. And then he raised his head and soft, gentle grey stared back at me.
    My mouth closed, the breath was released, and the words on the tip of my tongue were forgotten.
    There'd be another time to break it off. I still had three other of my guys to cut loose. Matt was gone. Already it was easier to accept that. I was making progress, I was sure. Tomorrow was a right-off, the day planned to the nth degree. But maybe Monday I'd catch up with Dan. Leaving Spike and Kane, and then Drew.
    My eyes flicked to his again, he was staring at me. Then he glanced down at his watch and took a deep breath.
    "We better get a move on, security will be along soon."
    "Won't they have gotten an eyeful through the cameras and already know we're here?"
    I knew the answer before he gave it. I think I'd always known. Drew entertained my need for a potential audience, but I don't think he'd ever let it get so far that we were truly seen.
    "What cameras?"
    I dipped my head down to hide my smile as I followed him to the lift. For some reason that amused me.
    From out of nowhere his fingers appeared beneath my chin and he raised my face so I could see him. His eyes scanned mine, my cheeks, my mouth, my neck, even dipping down as far as my breasts. But they returned to my eyes fairly quickly. There was something going on behind that grey. Some form of calculation or an effort to gain courage to say what was on his mind.
    We stood like that for so long that the lift arrived, the soft chime of the doors opening breaking the stalemate. My head jerked back, I gazed into the elevator expecting to see lift-guy, but the box was bare. And when I looked back at Drew the moment - whatever it had been before - was gone.
    He walked into the lift and waited for me to follow, then he pressed the button for the atrium floor. Neither of us spoke on the way down. It would have been easy to assume it was because we didn't usually hang around when the deed was done. This was new territory, post-coital talk not something we had ever engaged in before.
    But I knew otherwise. The silence in the elevator had nothing to do with that, and everything to do with what he had wanted to say before.
    Part of me, a part I have never allowed have free reign, desperately wanted to push him. To find out what was on his mind, what caused that turmoil behind his grey eyes. But if there was ever a time where that unrealistic romantic inside me should shut the fuck up, it was now. When I was trying to find myself. Trying to sort out the mess my life had become. Cutting my stable of men loose.
    The door pinged and swished open and the busy, noisy atrium of Sky Tower emerged. We walked off the lift without a backwards glance and stopped, by some unknown agreement, next to the waterfall feature.
    "Did you bring your car?" he asked, hands in his pockets, jacket spread wide. A usual Drew Kline stance.
    "No, taxi."
    "Would you like a lift?" This was strange and new, and a little uncomfortable. Drew and I had never spent long hours in each other's presence. We'd attended the same events, but the only interaction we'd ever had were heated looks, and then the illicit entanglement that inevitably followed.
    I stood there, in that lively, colourful, noisy space, and realised another epiphany. I have never had a normal relationship with a man. Never.
    I was so screwed up. This was my life; sex on the run, or on repeat but without any depth. The closest I came to normal was Abi's partner, Ben. He and I joked, but it was never sexual. He was, perhaps, my only male platonic friend. And only then because of Abi. There were other men in our circle, but I wasn't really close to them. Hell, even Gen's brother Jason, I'd tried at one stage to get into bed.
    This was my life.
    And - God help me - I didn't like it.
    "I gotta go," I said, brushing sweaty palms over the tops of my thighs.
    "Kelly," Drew called, breaking into my near panic.
    I'd taken several steps away already, so had to turn back to face him.