Bachelor Unleashed - Brenda Jackson [36]
She smiled. “Yes, you do that and pretty soon you’ll see I’m right. What you’re asking for is not what you really want. You just got caught up in the moment. You even admitted yourself that because of work you hadn’t slept with another woman since me. The way I see it, you’ve been suffering from a bad case of horniness. Don’t get your heads mixed up, Xavier. You used to be pretty good knowing one from the other.”
He looked away out the window. She sounded like she assumed she had all the answers. Well, he had news for her. If she thought—
“And I think considering everything, we should forget about that nightcap.”
At her interruption, he looked at her. “Are you saying you don’t want me to spend the night with you?”
“I don’t recall issuing you an invitation.”
He frowned. “Are we into playing games now, Farrah?”
“No.” She didn’t say anything for a moment and then, “Look, Xavier, I’ll spend every moment that I can with you while we’re here in New York. I really want that. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying the fun while it lasts.”
There was a momentary pause, and then he asked, “But when we return to Charlotte, I can’t call you or drop by like before?”
“I prefer that you didn’t.”
Did she really mean that, he asked himself. She was returning his stare with a straight face, and her tone of voice sounded serious enough. But still…
She was the same woman who’d come apart in his arms moments ago. The same woman who’d admitted to missing him, to trying to forget him these past six months.
He studied her features and saw the determined look in her eyes. However, he took a minute to look beyond that, and he could swear he saw something else. Was she really that scared to admit that possibly those eleven months they’d been together had meant more than just sex?
His eyebrows knit in a tight frown. This was getting pretty damn confusing. He should be in agreement with how she was thinking. She definitely expected him to be, but he just wasn’t feeling it, and he needed a reality check to figure out why.
“Let’s do dinner tomorrow night,” he heard himself suggesting.
“That’s fine, if I’m in town.”
He lifted a brow. “Where will you be if not here?”
“Heading back to Charlotte if I wrap things up with my clients tomorrow. Either way I hope to be leaving by Friday.”
A sense of dread felt like a sword twisting in his chest. Friday was two days away. “I want to spend time with you again before you leave, Farrah, and I agree tonight might not be a good time.”
“I’ll call you tomorrow, Xavier. That’s the best I can do.”
She was deliberately giving him little to work with, but she didn’t know that Xavier worked best under pressure. He would take tonight to go home and regroup, plan a new strategy and decide just what he intended to do about Farrah Langley.
One thing was for certain. He had no intentions of letting her go. If she thought things were over between them, then she definitely had another thought coming.
Chapter 8
Farrah wrapped the huge towel around her as she stepped out of the shower. From where she stood in the bathroom she could see her bed, and if anyone would have told her she would be sleeping in it alone tonight, without Xavier, she would not have believed them.
There was no reason for him not to have spent the night…at least there hadn’t been a reason until he began spouting all that nonsense about them continuing their affair once they returned to Charlotte. What could he have been thinking to even suggest such a thing?
As she slipped into her nightgown, she shook her head, totally confused. Tonight had been an adventure, definitely something new and different. She smiled, thinking she liked the idea of being naughty. She liked the idea of a holiday affair, too.
A casual relationship was all she was interested in. With Xavier, however, what had started out as a strictly no-strings affair had slipped into a hot and heavy routine, a full-blown sexual habit they couldn’t kick. Not that they’d tried. The more he’d shown up on her doorstep, the more she’d wanted him