Man In Charge (completed)

e to skedaddle, but I hesitated when he re

ew that hope. I was pretty sure Eden knew what she was in for when she'd

when I thought playboy might not be so bad after all, he said

d with no further wo

oward me,

u

d the stairs, but not so far that the asshole would see me on the other side. Then I w

two hundred to be sure enough time had passed. It was a long two hundred, too, because I lost

get laid to my to-do l

around the silo to where

steps to be sure. He was nowhere i

g for s

around, I saw him standing in the shadow

't have known I'd watched him. Quickly coming to that conclusion, I played inno

t didn't sound sup

this high." He was

e too. Hence, wh

uh

this event under false pretenses, and though there was no reason

ry-it was a true story, after all-and been on my way. He was still lingering in t

, an unspoken dare, and anyone who knew me knew I was

uh? What's that supposed to

n't-care-less shrug he'd gi

out? I might be the kind of person who stood up to a challenge, but I wasn't an idiot, and coming to this party tonight had be

is voice to stop me. "See, I think you did come looking because you heard somet

off abruptly. He'd stepped out of the shadows

was s

breath-awa

elting

le package. The way his features knit together. His high cheekbones. The chiseled jaw evident under a well-trimmed beard, some shade of brown. His inset eyes-it was too dark to grasp their color, but the placement was perfe

that the words stumbled out before I had a

easily, but the blood still ran upward when I embarrassed myself. And thi

hame, he swept in, smooth as a cucumber.

e was hit

oman. I'd pegged him accurately, tha

ity. "That's not. No. We're not. Uh-u

e he halted me once again. "No, wait. I apologize. I didn't mean to

, right. I had decided he was a playboy, but I didn't necessarily have proof. I had been

admitted. "I'm sorr

it gleamed. Hypnotic. He could convince a lot of wome

e me. But I was also realistic, so I w

as still st

ou found up here." He was determined to make me admit

it? I was more curious where he was taking

ave me a different impression of where this interaction m

y a man could look just t