as Cal’s looks — meaning he can get any woman that crosses his path.
I quickly look around to see if there is any place I can hide and watch him from afar, but since there isn’t, I have no choice but to walk past him. Sighing in defeat, I make my way toward him as slowly as I possibly can. Maybe he will be too busy yelling at whomever he is on the phone with to notice me?
As soon as the thought leaves my mind, he turns toward me and a slow, salacious smile forms on his lips. My traitorous heart starts to beat faster at that smile and I’m immediately put into a bad mood, not wanting to react this way toward him. He tells whomever he’s on the phone with that he will call them back, hangs up, and puts his phone back in his pocket. He walks the remaining distance toward me until we are standing right in front of each other. I will myself to look anywhere else but at his face.
“What a vision my eyes behold. See Layla, fate wanted us to see each other today.” The words flow so smoothly from his mouth that I wonder if he majored in the Art of Seduction 101 in college.
“More like a coincidence, Chase.”
He cocks his head to the side and my eyes catch sight of him unconsciously licking his sensual lips. “Is it though, Layla? I think we do have someone watching over us, wanting us to be together.” His husky voice and words make me shift uncomfortably as images of him naked, kissing down my body suddenly appear. I don’t remember much from our tryst in Las Vegas, but the more I’m around him, the more my body is starting to remember.
And it’s starting to demand more.
“Why are you over here and not following Jenna?” I force the unwanted mental images aside and change the subject.
“I needed to meet with Cal. Why are you here?”
“To ask Cal to fire you so you’ll stop stalking me.” I try to give him my most serious look, but it’s hard to keep a straight face when he starts laughing. His laughter starts out as a deep rumble in his chest before exploding out. It’s infectious, making me want to laugh with him.
It’s also damn sexy and makes me want to kiss him.
Not liking how I’m reacting toward him, I try to side step around him, but he just moves along with me and places his hand against my cheek. His touch sends a shockwave of warmth through me and freezes me in place as he moves that same hand down and cups the side of my neck. He pulls me closer to him and leans down, his breath tickling my ears.
“I see the way your vein rapidly pulses when I touch you, Layla. Your presences does the same to me.” He lifts up my hand with his free hand and places it against his chest. I gasp as I feel his heart ponding the same way mine is.
“This is only the beginning of how I want to make you feel when you are ready to give yourself to me,” he seductively whispers in my ear and I try to swallow the saliva that wants to drool out of my mouth over how his words make me burn. I inhale his delicious peppermint breath, which causes me to look out of the corner of my eye at his lips. I almost moan out loud from the proximity of his mouth and the want of sucking on those invitingly firm lips.
If you move over just an inch, you can taste them for yourself.
Before I have a chance to even consider if I want to make that move, he stands up straight and presses his lips to my forehead. “I’ll see you later, Angel,” he says and walks away.
I close my eyes and take a deep breath, willing my heart to stop beating so fast. I take a step forward only to come up short by the uncomfortable wetness that has now formed in between my legs.
That man has just annihilated my panties.
12
Layla
I don’t even give Cal the chance to say hello as I race into their apartment the minute he opens the door, mumbling that I need to use the restroom. I run straight to their bedroom and find the extra clothes that I keep stashed away in Jenna’s closet. I groan out a sigh of relief when I put