Dirty Sexy Alphas (Twenty Book Box Set) - Hannah Ford Page 0,238

kissed his neck. He ran his hands down my arms, sending chills all the way to my toes.

“If you keep that up we won’t be driving anywhere.” He took my face in his hands and kissed me.

Just as I suspected, Leo had a sleek matte black sports car, all loud engine and low to the ground. He drove me back to my little place in very unglamorous Culver City, which happened to be near the Epix movie studios. The drive wasn’t much better, in terms of us keeping our hands off each other. I couldn’t stop leaning across to him to get my lips back on his neck and face, kissing him like some madwoman. I reached down and felt how hard he was for me. Being selfish and wanting more of him, danger be damned, I pressed harder, eager to pull him right out of his jeans, right there in the car. But Leo pulled my hand away and said, “If you don’t stop, I am seriously going to wreck this car and kill us both. And then we’ll never get to do that again.”

I wasn’t sure if it was the threat of death or of never touching him again that finally made me stop, but I did manage to stay in my own seat for rest of the drive.

When we finally arrived at my apartment I was wet as hell and wanted to fuck him right there in his car but knew it was impossible. I also knew I couldn’t invite him inside my scrappy apartment with my roommate. So I kissed him goodbye, and gave his dick one last hard rub.

“God, you’re cruel,” he said.

When I went inside, Ava Marie was sitting in the living room watching TV and stretching.

“That was you in that fancy car outside?” she said, eyeing me coolly.

“Hey,” I said. Had she seen who I was with? She leaned over her leg, resting her cheek on her knee.

I tried to keep my voice light, to encourage a friendlier exchange. “Look, I’m sorry about Friday night.”

“Sure. Just don’t ask me to set you up again,” she said. “Michael was annoyed and I looked like an asshole. But anyway, you look like you had a fairly satisfying weekend.” She sat up and looked me up and down. Was it written on my face all that I had done over the weekend? Was I so transparent?

I locked the door behind me.

“Someone from work?” she pressed. “Or the actor guy you mentioned?”

“Sort of,” I said.

Ava Marie eyed me as if she was waiting for me to say what, I didn’t know, but it made me really nervous. I felt like I was being questioned by a cop.

“He must be a pretty good actor to be able to afford a car like that,” she said. I took off my shoes, ready to race to the sanctuary of my bedroom, away from her questions and accusing eyes. “He also looked a lot like someone I know. Some celebrity. Leo Armstrong?”

When she said his name, I froze.

“That was Leo Armstrong, wasn’t it?” she said. “I looked out the window when you guys drove up.” I swallowed hard against the nerves thrumming through my body. “What the hell are you doing with that guy? He has the worst reputation with women.”

“I know. I’m not with him—it’s not like that,” I stammered.

“Then what?” Ava Marie asked. “Sophie, I know you’re still finding your way here, but you have to look out for yourself. Don’t start getting mixed up with men who are only out to use you.”

“I’m not.”

“You have to be smart,” she pressed.

“I am,” I said, frustrated.

“No you’re not,” she insisted.

“Listen,” I said, moving into the living room and sitting on the arm of the sofa. I suddenly realized I was actually going to tell someone the truth. Maybe it was because I’d been holding back for so long, dying to confess my sins to Leo. Telling Ava Marie was a risk, but I couldn’t seem to keep it all to myself anymore, and besides, she’d already discovered some of the truth on her own. I took a deep breath, as if readying myself to jump off a cliff. “You can’t tell anyone. Okay?”

“Okay what?” she asked.

“I’m working on a story for the magazine,” I said. “It’s about his reputation with women.” I don’t know what I expected her to say.

“Oh, shit,” Ava Marie muttered. “Sophie Scott, you better be careful. Do you realize who this guy is?”

“Of course,” I said,