Lured into Love (Blossom in Winter #2) - Melanie Martins Page 0,157
had met Alex for the first time right now, it would’ve been love at first sight. “Are you alright?”
“What would have been the chances of us meeting each other if you were not my dad’s associate?” I ask casually.
His eyes widen a smidgen at my unexpected question. “That’s what you are thinking right now?”
“Yep…” I step closer to him and run a hand over his open collar, fondling his skin. “Do you think we’d have ended up meeting at some point? Or do you think you would’ve married someone else?”
Alex just chuckles in return. “Alright, I see. My dad told you who Amanda is.”
Wow. Am I that easy to read? But I don’t want to talk about Amanda, so instead I say, “You didn’t even answer my question.”
Alex keeps his gaze steady on mine, his face glowing as he says, “I don’t want to think about a world where I’d have never met you. Sounds way too terrifying.” I know he’s speaking from his heart, and I feel exactly the same way—a world without him is too terrifying to even think about. Because I know it all too well. “Thank God you are here.” His hands go up to cup my face, and my eyes shut tight as he leans in and presses his lips to mine. Finally! The first kiss since we arrived in Bermuda… gets interrupted with the ringing sound of his iPhone.
Alex reaches down to his pocket, and after a quick glance at the screen, he says, “It’s my attorney.” I feel a bit anxious as he takes the call, moving a few steps toward the door to avoid all the surrounding noise. After a few seconds, though, I hear Alex calling me over and saying, “My attorney is with Emma.”
Emma? I immediately trot over and take his phone just as fast. Then Alex leads me down the hallway and to a quieter part of the house, where I can hear her properly. “Emma?”
“Hey! How are you?”
“Oh my gosh!” The sound of her voice sends a wave of emotion bursting through me, but I force myself to calm down. “How are you?”
“I’m good, um, just planning my next trip. I received your message, by the way. And, um, regarding your mom, with all due respect, I kinda felt during the meeting that she was a manipulative bitch.”
A chuckle escapes me at her usual bluntness, but I’m glad she saw through my mom. Then I promptly ask, “What about Eric? Did he say or do anything against you?”
“Ha, that lil motherfucker…” She lets her words trail off, leaving me anxiously waiting. “That dude, I swear…”
“What happened?” I promptly ask, my curiosity mixed with fear and nervousness rising.
“He struck a nerve…”
“Gosh, tell me!”
“Well, when your parents showed up with your friend Matthew and his dad, I invited them in for a quick chat in the living room. You know, they were polite, super worried about you, so they asked some questions that I answered, and it was all good. But after our meeting, since no one got the info they wanted, Eric requested to speak privately with me.”
“What?” I can’t contain my outrage.
“Yeah, I was so stunned by his question. Like, what the fuck? Where does he get off? I swear, that dude was out of his mind. Obviously, I refused and even chuckled, then I simply instructed them to leave.”
“And then?”
“He didn’t appreciate that. And while everyone was leaving the room, he stood there like a pitiful dickhead and asked the same questions, but without your parents and his son around. I said I was done, and that’s when he crossed the line…”
My heart is racing with every word coming out of her mouth, and my nerves are boiling. “What did he do?”
“I was gesturing for him to leave, but he was stepping closer to me, and he was, like, ‘You know lying to a public servant is a criminal offense,’ and then he asked if he should call the cops to make me tell the truth.”
My mouth remains wide open in total awe. “What the hell?” I can’t believe this is the same man Matthew introduced me to. He seemed so polite and well-behaved.
“Yeah, that dude is insane. So, at that point, I was losing my shit, and I asked him to leave before he would regret it.”
Now I’m blinking twice. “You really said that?”
“Of course! He’s a fucking idiot who only got into my house because he was with your parents.”