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I should probably let her know that she was looking for something good in the wrong place.
“Are you really all that scary?” she asked. “I’ve actually been in a pretty dark place myself, so I’m not really afraid of the dark anymore.”
She had no idea how terrifying my mind could be, and I highly doubted that she actually knew what pitch-black actually looked like.
Kylie was all light and happiness.
And I was doom and gloom.
Those two things rarely mixed well.
“I’m totally fucked up,” I confessed. “I would think you would have recognized that by now. I think it’s best if we avoid getting personal with each other.”
“Why?” she asked.
“Why what?” I growled, hoping to get her to stop asking questions.
“Why are you fucked up? It’s not like you’ve always been that way. Something caused it, right?”
I folded my arms across my chest and glared at her, but she just kept looking at me like she expected some kind of answer.
Jesus!Was there no way to intimidate this woman into silence?
Strangely, I couldn’t force myself to say anything that would hurt her feelings.
Fuck knew I wanted to because that was my normal response when I wanted to push someone away.
“Why is this something you need to know?” I asked in a surly tone. “We had a deal. Food for business advice. Period.”
She shrugged. “I have no idea. Maybe I want to get to know you. Maybe I want to try to understand.”
“You can’t,” I said shortly.
She folded her arms over her chest, refusing to back down. “Try me,” she challenged.
“Only if you’re willing to get naked,” I replied, knowing it irritated her when I went down that road.
Not that I didn’t want to get her naked, but the only reason I’d actually voiced that desire out loud was to make her back off.
She lifted a brow. “That’s not going to work anymore. I know you’re just saying that to change the subject. You don’t mean it.”
Maybe so, but I certainly wouldn’t argue if she changed her mind and decided she wanted to have this discussion without our clothes on.
I’d been attracted to her from the moment she’d walked through my door, and my desire to fuck her until she begged for mercy was unrelenting.
My comment might have been a desperate attempt to distract her, but the actual urge to get her into my bed was very, very real.
“Try me,” I repeated her challenge. “I’d be more than happy to show you just how much I mean it.”
She rolled her eyes. “God, why do you have to be so stubborn? I’m just trying to get to know you.”
I found myself trying not to smile over that one since I’d never met a more obstinate female in my entire life. “Did it ever occur to you that I may not want you to know me?”
I watched as a moment of uncertainty crossed her face, and I instantly hated myself for putting it there.
After all of the reasons I’d given her to hate me, why in the hell was she still trying to get to know me?
“Okay. Forget it,” she said tersely. “I thought you might want somebody to talk to, but you obviously prefer to just be a jerk.”
