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Chapter Six
Harris
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God this woman is beautiful. Her looks. Her laugh. Her sassy attitude. There isn’t a thing about her that I don’t like. I’m determined to win her over if it’s the last thing I do.
But I have yet to figure out why the hell I care so much. The effort I’ve put in with her far surpasses that of any other woman I’ve pursued before. Then again, I don’t normally have to pursue women as they tend to pursue me. Maybe that’s it. Maybe I’m so drawn to her because she’s the first person to ever flat out tell me no. Her disinterest only makes me more interested in her.
The chase. It’s thrilling and exhilarating and I’m loving every second of this back and forth dance we seem to be doing. I have no doubt that I will wear her down and tonight I will set my plan in motion.
We make small talk as we eat our wings. I’m pretty impressed that unlike most women I go to dinner with, she clears her plate unapologetically before she leans back in the booth, her hands resting on her slender stomach.
“So, how am I doing so far? I’m knocking this date out of the park, aren’t I?” I wait until the food has been cleared away and we’re halfway through our third pitcher of beer before asking.
“It’s not a date,” she reminds me.
“I hate to break it to you, but this most certainlyisa date.”
“Nope. It isn’t.” She smiles, clearly feeling the effects of the beer.
“What do you have against dates?” I can’t help but ask, desperate to learn as much about Blue Daniels as I can.
“Not dates, moredating,” she clarifies.
“Okay, so what do you have against dating?”
“Too complicated. Too messy. You spend months or even years of your life compromising who you are for someone else, and for what? So they can betray you and hurt you every chance they get. No thank you.”
“Why do I get the feeling you’ve experienced this firsthand?”
“Because I have.” She shrugs. “I was engaged once upon a time.”
“What happened?”
“Long story short, I caught him cheating with a woman he worked with.”
“Damn, I’m sorry.” I refrain from telling her that any guy stupid enough to cheat on her never deserved her to begin with, but I doubt she wants to hear that from me.
“It’s been a long time and I learned a lot about myself. The main thing being that I like being single more than I like being in a relationship. Besides, love is just a chemical reaction in our brains. It’s not real.”
“Wait. Are you telling me you don’t think love is real?”
“Do you?”
“Yeah.”
She gives me a disbelieving look. “Have you ever been in love?”
“No.”
“Then how do you know it’s real?”
“I don’t know. I just do.”
“Have you ever even been in a serious relationship?”
“Defineserious.” I chuckle at her put off expression.
