The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Xante smiled. “You’re overestimating yourself. Newmoon Group can more than afford to lose the business you bring us. I appreciate all the romantic gestures you’ve done for me tonight, but you should know I’m not the young girl I once was. Frankly, these things embarrassed me.”

Shawn felt a pang of hurt in his chest. Frowning, he said, “Xante, I…”

Xante did not want to hear what he had to say anymore, so she shouted toward the private room, “Aaron!”

“Coming!” Aaron immediately ran out of the private room.

Xante threw a set of car keys toward him. “You haven’t drunk any alcohol, so you can drive me home. Bring the car around, and let’s get out of here.”

Aaron caught the car keys and said under his breath, “What does she think I am? Her driver?”

ignored Aaron and walked toward the entrance. She waited for him to bring

with the car,

not be the important person he thinks he is, but his phone does hold the power to a lot of

a side-eye. “Should I introduce you to him, then? You can exchange all the resources you like

I’m straight,

Xante ignored him.

with him in the first place. However, she knew he

they continued to be friends, Shawn would use the resources he had as a bargaining chip, and that would make Xante’s life even more difficult. Thus, cutting him off

been blind to fall for him when I was young,’ she thought. The only feeling she had toward

not taking the familiar route home, so she asked Aaron, “Where