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“Yes, yes…” I began, with a sense of urgency in y”
Mr Sinclair nodded and a wry sot off the man he shoved him in the back one last tiroaning in pain, Mr Sinclair brushed his shirt at the elbows and walked back towards me
“I think I’ve seen enough of Los Angeles for one night” Extending his ar back to the hotel with htcap?”
Dumbfounded, I walked arm in arm with him back to the end of the block where the limo waited for us As we approached, Armando scrambled around the front of the vehicle to open the door for us
“Mr Sinclair, sir,” he began “Are you okay? I sahat happened Do you, um, should I call the police?”
He waved Aresture
“What do you think? Does it look like I need help?”
“No,” Armando replied with a quick reassurance to his tone as he opened the door “Not at all sir, no”
After getting in the limo, we rode in silence for about a minute or so At last, Mr Sinclair broke the tension
“Maddie, you okay?” he asked
A sudden chill laid into me I started to rubthis, he reached across the seat and offered me his jacket
Without thinking, I shook my head “I’m fine Mr Sinclair It’s just a little chill”
He extended the coat in my direction “Maddie, I insist”
I s it by the lapels, I spun it around and draped it across my shoulders
“Better?” he asked
“Much, thank you”
“Good,” he said, as he leaned back in the seat “Oh and Maddie?”
“Yes?”
“Call me Greyson…”
MADDIE
“I’m fine,” he said
Deftly, he undid his cufflinks with a feists of his wrists and exposed the deep h lean, it was plain they possessed i by the way he tossed a round with them not ten minutes earlier Once he’d finished, Greyson turned his head to one side and with an easy tug, undid his Windsor knot and the first two buttons of his dress shirt at once
“Aaandd… what about you, Maddie? Are you war up?”
As he finished speaking, Greyson leaned back and spread his arms so they spanned the entire width of the back seat of the car In spite of what happened, he appeared none the worse for wear
A gentle smile crept to my lips “Yes, thank you, I am”
Greyson kept his eyes focused on me as I spoke Hardly a hair seeed at the corners of the expensive fabric of his suit jacket The silk lining inside felt sainst my skin As I looked at him, it was hard not to notice, well, his hard body The crisp white of his shirt hugged against the perfect V-taper of his torso At that instant I felt a deep sense of gratitude towards his jacket as it concealed the beginnings of my body’s ith my mind Hard as crystals,a streak of heat down the ht to my…
Okay Maddie That’s enough Jesus
I blinked myself back to so, he seee it in any way Instead, he cast a casual glance out theJust beyond it, soft orange streaks frohosts
He spoke without looking back in my direction
“You realize, of course, now that I’ve gone out of my way to protect you, you’ll need to be et back to in your service by acco me to my room”
My eyes widened as he finished his thought Every square inch ofinto my arms as he pinned me beneath him Was he serious and if so, about what part of it? Silence followed his statement and left me to fill the void with interpretation of his intent rather than confirrew too heavy for me to bear My lips parted in an attele word, hell, I'd settle for a grunt
Which was, to my horror, exactly what I did
God help runted at the man
I knoas a grunt because no sooner had I done it than his head moved on a sloivel back towards me His features formed an expression of aether in a ht as his eyes fixed on mine