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?”

entrance. She waited for him to bring

the car,

into the car, Aaron joked, “Xante, your ex-boyfriend might not be the important person he thinks he is, but his phone does hold the power to a lot of mega-companies’ resources. Are you sure it’s okay to turn him down

“Should I introduce you to him, then? You can exchange all the resources you like with him once you two

way! I’m straight,

Xante ignored him.

to her. That was why she kept in contact with him in the first place. However, she knew he would think he

friends, Shawn would use the resources he had as a bargaining chip, and that would make Xante’s life even more difficult. Thus,

young,’ she thought. The only feeling

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