Page 58 of Tempting Me

I forgot I'd given that guy Luca’s number.

This is total karma for last night.

I take a breath, fan my eyes for a moment, then spin to hand him back his phone.

I’m not expecting Luca to be right behind me when I turn around, and I’m not expecting him to be looking at me as if he can read my mind either.

“Here,” I say, swallowing the lump in my throat and keeping my expression as neutral as I can.

“You don’t think it’s funny?”

I shrug and do a non-committal head shake.

“Not even a little?”

“Poor guy” is all I say.

Luca nods slowly. “How do you know it’s a guy? Why are your eyes glistening?”

“Excuse me?”

“You heard me. They are shining like someone who was laughing but had to do it quietly, so her eyes started shining as she held it in.”

To that I laugh.

“You’re nuts.”

“What did you do?”

“Me?” I place a hand on my heart. “Why is this suddenly a thing where I did something?”

“Because my life was smooth sailing until you popped back into it.”

Funny. I feel the exact same way.

“I doubt it was.”

“Shay, did you give someone my number?”

I shake my head.

How does he know this? We’ve only been around each other a couple of weeks, and now he just knows me.

I don’t accept that.

“Shay.”

“No.”

“Shay,” he says once more. This time it’s low, and he drags the single word out with a growl. It is hands down thesexiest way anyone has ever said my name, and of course it came out of Luca’s mouth.

I take a slow breath to control the way something so simple now makes my heart race and my mind imagine him saying my name in a completely different setting.

I bite my lip to keep from revealing the truth.

“I did not.”

His gaze on me darkens as he steps closer. Slowly, he puts one hand on one side of my body and then does the same with the other, leaning in until we are so close our noses almost touch.

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