Chapter 17
Olivia
Alexander got in and started the car. “You’re quiet,” he observed as he pulled into traffic.
“Just thinking.”
“About?”
“About how fucking insane this whole situation is,” I said, turning to look at him. “You’re my boss. You’ve offered me a marriage contract worth millions of dollars. And now we just had dinner at your penthouse, where you cooked for me-”
“My chef cooked for us,” he corrected.
“Whatever. The point is, none of this is normal.”
“Normal is overrated,” Alexander said, his eyes locked on mine as he navigated through the quiet streets of LA.
“So is being cryptic,” I shot back. “Yet here you are, mastering the art.”
His lips quirked up at the corner. “You think I’m being cryptic? I’m the most straightforward man you’ll ever meet.”
“Right. Because normal men propose marriage contracts to women they barely know.”
“I never claimed to be normal.” He glanced over before returning to the road. “And I think you’re less normal than you pretend to be.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“It means,” he said, turning onto my street, “that a normal woman wouldn’t be considering my offer. She’d have slapped me and walked out.”
“Who says I’m considering it?”
“The fact that you’re sitting in my car right now.” He pulled up to the curb outside my building and cut the engine. “The fact that you wore that dress.”
my cheeks. “Maybe I
steering wheel. “Or maybe you’re
narrowed my eyes at him, my body still humming with
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corners of his
interior suddenly felt too small, too
said, reaching
was a caress
eyes on my ass as
them clatter against
behind to unzip the dress. It slid down my body, pooling at my feet like expensive liquid. I stepped out of it, scooped it up, and tossed it
relief as they were finally free. I peeled off my damp panties and padded naked to my
I flopped onto my bed, grabbing
I opened Emilia’s chat.
Me: You up?
appeared, indicating she
Emilia: Yeah, what’s up?
whether to tell her about Alexander’s insane
over the keyboard. What would she say? Probably that I was crazy for even considering it. Or maybe she’d tell me to go for it. Emilia
tell her. Not yet. This was too bizarre, too complicated. I needed to make
major. What are
are you holding up? Any more crying
her bluntness. Emilia
good,
way to get over someone is to get under someone else. You should totally put yourself out there
Me: EMILIA!
What? Just saying! Plenty of hot guys out there who’d kill
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