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Our front door opened and shut and ot a cab waiting so we sh-" he stopped speaking as he entered the sitting rooled

I squinted an eye at hirinned "Well you’re that too, babe"

"Euch," Ellieher, Braden sauntered casually towards antly cut black skinny suit with a slirey shirt that matched my dress perfectly His skinny tie was blood-red like ly coordinated

He looked yuh

His eyes scanned me from head to toe, and by the ti "Coed to hand Ellie lass before I was hauled down the hall in shoes I’d had to practice walking in, and dragged into my bedroom

He spun around, hooking an arot to stop doing that," I complained

"Babe, you look… let’s just say if there wasn’t a taxi waiting to take us to the restaurant for our reservation, you’d be on your back right now"

Overconfidentto the low neckline of the dress

"Braden"

He jerked his eyes back to ain and I smiled softly "Thank you"

"But you need to put your hair up"

"What?" I touchedup at him "Why?"

To erously "Just do it"

Iout of his hold "Not unless you tell ood He would not make me think otherwise

"Because," his voice was low, a deep purr he reserved for the bedroom, hence why I felt it all the way down intothe only eous you look with it down"

Soed inside my chest An almost ache spread Outwardly, I smirked "How very Victorian of you"

Braden’s narrowed eyes turned into a glower "Jocelyn," he warned

I threw my hands up "Are you serious?"

"Deadly"

"Braden-"

"Jocelyn"

I stopped, my hands on my hips as I searched his face It was implacable My God, he was serious With a huff of disbelief, I crossed my arms over my chest "I don’t take well to orders, Braden"

"I’"

"I just don’t want you to wear your hair down"

"Fine" I cocked my head to the side as th of hioes up, but you owe me a favor in return"

He flashed ood, babe"

"Oh I didn’t say the debt would be sexual in nature"

His grin only widened "So what are we talking about here?"

"Well that’s the thing" I sidled over to hiainst him with a smile "You won’t know, until you know"

Braden’s head dipped towardshed and stepped back "You also look really good tonight by the way"

"Thank you," heme up

"Well, you better tell the cab driver we’ll be out in ten ed to style ht to Ellie whose eyes were all teary at the sight of us together--I don’t think she’d quite grasped the concept of fuck buddies yet--and slid into the cab before Braden When he got in, he gave the cab driver our destination It was Braden’s French restaurant, La Cour, the one he’d inherited as part of his father’s businesses, and it was situated on Royal Terrace near the Regent Gardens I hadn’t been there before, but I’d heard great things about it As Braden settled back, he settled in close to me and reached for e, e to pull out of his touch It wasn’t because the handholding wasn’t nice It was nice Too nice