Their Million-Dollar Night by Katherine Garbera Read Free Book Online Page B

he ever intended. But he’d never had someone look at him the way Roxy was. And he felt like a jerk.
    She was hyper-sensitive about her body and he struggled to understand that. To him she was a woman who worked out and took care of herself. He could tell that she spent time on hair and makeup, yet she didn’t have the confidence he would have expected.
    He hadn’t meant to hurt her but somehow he had. Maybe he should buy her something. Except he knew that money wasn’t the solution. He’d learned that at a young age when he’d watched his mother wither from expensive gifts but a lonely life.
    Roxy definitely liked the beach.
    â€œDo you want to go to Hawaii for a few days?” he asked. He had a place on the Big Island of Hawaii, which would probably be crowded since it wassummer and the height of family-vacation season. “We can get away from Vegas and really have a chance to get to know one another.”
    She shook her head but the sadness had left her eyes and he felt better. He wasn’t even sure what he’d done to make that happen. “I have to start a new job tomorrow, remember?”
    She was pretty cagey about that job that she wasn’t even sure she liked. But he could respect her need to work and pay her own way. Those were the very two things that had driven him to start his own company, Pryce Enterprises, and not go to work for his family.
    â€œHayden won’t mind waiting a few extra days for you,” Max assured her. He was confident that he could pay the wage of a temporary employee so that Roxy’s job would be waiting for her when she got back.
    â€œI can’t. Why would you even offer such a thing?”
    â€œYou seem to like the beach.”
    She tipped her head to the side, studying him, and he hoped she found whatever it was she was searching for in his gaze. Hoped that whatever was there wouldn’t scare her off. He tried not to think about how her breasts had felt pressed against him when they’d kissed. Or the fact that he’d been able to feel her nipples harden. He wanted to touch and taste them.
    â€œI do. But why a sudden trip?” she asked.
    He couldn’t remember what they were talkingabout. He was imagining them both naked in his tropical paradise retreat.
    â€œMax?”
    Something about why he’d offered to take her to the beach…he remembered suddenly that it hadn’t started out as a sexual thing but more of an emotional one. He’d wanted to stop her from hurting.
    â€œBlondie, you had a look on your face…” How could he say it without upsetting her again. Damn, this was exactly what he wasn’t good at.
    â€œWhat look?” she asked, shifting her legs under the table.
    â€œNever mind, I thought you needed a distraction and it was either offering a trip or kissing you.”
    â€œSo you opted for the trip?”
    â€œIf I kiss you again I don’t think I’ll be able to stop until I’m buried in that sexy body of yours. And I have the feeling public displays of affection don’t rank too highly with you.”
    â€œThey used to.”
    â€œReally? Well, don’t let me be the reason you stop.”
    She laughed. “God, you are so sophisticated I forgot you were a guy.”
    â€œWhat does that mean?” he asked. No one had ever said anything like that to him before. But to be honest, that was true of just about everything that Roxy said. She was a breath of fresh air in his world, which was filled with the jaded and cynical.
    She winked at him. “Just that I thought you were too cool for lust.”
    â€œThink again.” Obviously he’d been a little too gentlemanly in stopping earlier. He should have followed his primitive instincts and made love to her on the cushions.
    â€œI am,” she said, with a blush that revealed more than she probably realized.
    â€œSo what’s your hang-up with public nudity? I think together we