“Were we here?” I ask, trying to refocus. “Or were we somewhere else?”
“We were at your place actually, which is strange. Since I have never been invited there.”
Damn it. Now she’s pushing things into a direction I never want to take. Not with her. I do take chicks back to my place, it isn’t some sacred secret thing, but I much prefer to be at theirs or to be in public because then I have all the control. I can leave whenever I want to and make sure they never come to see me again.
If Nadia is going to start acting like this, then she will never be one of the lucky few who make it.
“So, shall we go now?” Her hand grabs onto my cock making me gasp. I harden between her fingers, I would have to be made of stone not to react as she grabs me like this, but my heart isn’t in it.
“No, I don’t think so,” I reply with a gravelly quality to my voice. “Not tonight.”
“I don’t think you’re hearing me.” She leans right in so I can’t make that mistake again. “If you take me back to your place tonight I will do anything for you. Anything. We are always so cramped here, so restricted. At your place, you could take me wherever you want, in any position. Anywhere.”
Hmm, I have to admit, that’s a little tempting. “Why can’t we go to yours?”
“Because I live so far away.” She pouts out her bottom lip and presses it to my cheek. “Plus, I want to see your place. I feel like I hardly know you at all. I want to get to know you a little bit better.”
“I don’t know where it is!” Tia’s panic stricken voice grabs my focus once more. “I can’t find it. Someone must have taken it. I had it here a minute ago under my chair and now… it’s gone.”
Without even thinking about it, I shove Nadia off of me and I turn to see what’s going on. Tia isn’t as interested in what I’m doing at all, I was wrong, she has her own issues going on. I tune Nadia out; I don’t even know if she’s still there never mind talking to me. I’m trying to work out what the hell is going on here.
“Miss, we cannot take your excuses. You need to pay your bill.”
“I can’t. My bag is missing. I don’t know what I can do about that. Can’t I come back…?”
He leans over the bar looking at her with a real aggression in his eyes that I don’t like. I don’t know who this guy is, he isn’t someone I have ever seen behind the bar before, but his attitude sucks. Just because Tia doesn’t look like she has money dripping off of her finger tips, doesn’t mean she can’t pay.
“You cannot come back. If you can’t pay, we will have to call the cops…”
I don’t know what makes me do it, a cheeky idea coming to mind, I suppose. I rest my hand on her shoulder and wait for her to turn and face me. The sheer terror in her eyes speaks volumes.
“I can help you,” I tell her quietly.
“You can, really?”
I still don’t know what makes me do this, but in the heat of the moment the words just fly out. This isn’t the sort of way I might behave with other women, but Tia is different. “But you will have to do something for me…”
Her face screws up in sheer horror, proving that my initial instincts were right. She’s far too sweet for me. It’s a shame, but Tia is never going to happen. It’s time to walk away now.
Chapter Three – Tia
“Something… something for you?” I know what he means, it’s so obvious. Especially for a guy like this who has this aura. But still… I can’t help the need for him to explain. “L… like what?”
“I need you to come back to my place so we can talk through the… details.”
Shit, this is horrible. This is the most awkward position that I have ever been in my whole life. I want to scream at him that I’m not that sort of person, that I would never be like that, but I don’t seem to have the words.
“So, what do you say? Do you want me to pay your bar bill for you and you can… pay me back?”
I remain silent, I can’t say anything. It’s like his proposal has frozen me in time. How has this man, the first person that I have had a real conversation with, turned out to be like this? I guess I should have known that it would end up this way the moment I saw him turn to talk to that beautiful brunette who is out of this world. Their chat wasn’t exactly subtle either, they were flirting in an overly sexual way that’s completely beyond my comprehension, so he’s obviously that guy… so why does this feel all weird? Like my world is being up ended?