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“Umm . . . okay.” I turned away, grabbed my glass, and gulped the wine.
“Kissing you was probably a bad idea.” He leaned into my behind again, but now his hardness pushed against my curves. “I want to make you moan.”
Danger. Danger. Get a hold of the situation, Jasmine.
“You made me moan when I ate that delicious food tonight.” I switched from drinking wine to gulping down water in a desperate attempt to end this craziness. “By the way, you’re pushing your erection into my behind.”
“Do you like that?”
“No.”
He nipped at my neck and moved to my side. “You’re a bad liar.”
“You’re awful at courting a woman.”
“How?” His eyebrows furrowed.
I wagged one finger at him. “You kissed me without my permission.”
“You liked it.”
“Not the point. You also rubbed your erection on me like a pervert.”
“I am a pervert.”
“A spoiled one.”
He swallowed some of his brandy. “I’d love to spoil you. I’d give you anything you desired. Join my arrangement and you would never have to worry. I would take care of you and your family. I’d get them out of South End, put your nieces and nephews in good schools.”
Take care of my family?
I looked away and shook my head.
He really did study me hard. He knew I was constantly giving money to my mother and that would be a weakness to use against me. Too bad it scared the hell out of me instead. He figured he could have anything he wanted, served to him exactly the way he desired.
He probably could, just not me.
My mother depended on men so much that when they did things like hurt my brothers or me, she looked the other way. I didn’t work my butt off to get into Harvard and then deal with the weird stares from rich kids and all of those long hours of studying just so I could be a highly paid mistress.
“Like I said before, I’m not interested.” I tucked my hair behind my ear. “Besides, I wouldn’t do well in your harem. I feel like if you’re sleeping with other women, then I should be able to be with other men.”
He stepped closer to me. “I don’t share.”
“And I don’t give to selfish people.”
“Are you attracted to me?”
“Of course. I already told you I would date you,” I said without hesitation, which signaled to me that I needed to slow down the drinking.
“If I didn’t have this situation, would you have let me make love to you tonight?”
I averted my eyes. The light dimmed again as a poet walked on stage. It wasn’t Noc.
Thank god. By the way, where are Vivian and Troy?
People applauded and hurried to surround the stage.
“Jasmine?” Chase kissed my cheek. “Answer me, please.”
