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I frown, relax back into the seat, and shake my head. “It’s been seven minutes.”
He shrugs.
I fight my smile, glance up at the building, then back at him. It’s not funny, but damn this man. I want him so much. However, I seem to have a much bigger grasp on reality than he does.
The damn idiot.
“Knox, did you ever stop to think that maybe you want me because I’m forbidden fruit?” I shake my head.
“Yes.”
Oh.
“And that’s not it. I had you. I never fuck the same woman twice. Until now.” He indicates the car.
“Well, it was very romantic,” I snort, and he shakes his head.
“Payton, I don’t know how to fix this,” Knox says, reaching for me. “But if you sleep with someone else, I’ll fucking lose it.”
I’m not promising him something I can’t keep. There is no one else I want, but he might meet someone, and so might I.
It’s completely unreasonable to ask that of one another.
Neither of us can be together as it stands right now. I’d lose my job. And Knox doesn’t want his father to know we’re sleeping together or it could risk him being promoted to the CEO role.
I understood exactly what he meant when we were in the bath chatting.
But if there is something real between us, then surely we can find a way around this.
“What if you spoke to your dad?” I try and he shakes his head.
“He can never know, Payton. I mean it.” The fierceness in his eyes is a reminder that becoming CEO is a much greater priority than I’ll ever be.
“Then you can’t ask me to wait for something that will never be, Knox,” I say, then do a double take as I see Roxy walking toward us, waving. “Shit, open the locks.”
I hear it click.
As I start to climb out, he grabs my arm. I turn.
“I won’t ask again,” Knox says, and I feel the coldness in his words.
Then he lets me go.
Knox has my heart, and I know he’s going to break it.
