Page 86 of Game of Love
Anya turned her head too and saw him. Out the corner of my eyes I watched her mouth drop. She looked from me to him when he spotted me and started making his way over to us.
“Holy shit! Is that him?” She winced under her breath. “You didn’t say he was Chris Hemsworth gorgeous.”
I was too busy being taken with the fact that he was coming toward me to answer. I stood as he approached and Anya just stared.
“Jia,” he said my name with that soft adoration that I’d come to love.
“Hi.” An unwelcome blush crept up my cheeks when he gazed into my eyes.
Anya cleared her throat in an overly exaggerated way that made me turn to her.
“Xander, this is my best friend Anya.” I motioned to her. “Anya this is Xander Cage.” It sounded weird saying his full name.
Anya stood up, completely star struck. She probably looked a little like I had when I first saw him. So taken with his gorgeousness she found it hard to speak.
Yup, I’d gone through that and now she was too. Looked like she was having more of a girly moment though, because her cheeks flushed when he put out his hand to shake hers.
“Hi,” she said in a high-pitched tone.
“Really great to meet you Anya,” Xander told her.
I couldn’t resist the little smile that inched across my face. It was her reaction making me smile.
“You too.”
Xander returned his focus to me once he released her hand and held my gaze.
“Can I talk to you for a second?”
I gave him an incredulous glare because I had to wonder if that was some kind of rhetorical question. Here I’d been hanging out like some love struck, love sick teen waiting to catch a glimpse of the man and he was asking if it was okay to talk to me.
“Of course,” I replied and tried to stave off the breathy rasp that took me. “Be back in a sec,” I said to Anya, whose curiosity I could see going toward the heavens.
I loved that Xander slipped his arm around me as he steered me over to the corner of the restaurant where it was empty. It was clear he wanted to speak to me in complete privacy. Not even the waiters came by here.
“You okay?” he asked.
He looked worried and I wondered if there was something for me to worry about also. Something more.
“I’m fine.”
“You sure?”
I chuckled. “Okay, so now you’re scaring me.”
He reached out and stroked the edge of my jaw. It was so brief it was like it never happened. Not brief enough though that it had no effect. The contact tingled every nerve in my body. Every nerve just came alive, heated me right up as I remembered my night with him. Desire pooling between my thighs.
“Don’t be scared. I just came to check on you.”
That made me smile again and filled me with awe when I noticed the concern filling his blue gaze.
“I’m okay today. Nothing’s happened.”
“Who’s staying with you tonight?”
God, it was like the bubble just popped. “Frankie.”
I couldn’t stand Frankie, even though I knew Xander had taken a shine to him. Honestly, Frankie was perhaps the only knight who talked to Xander. The others to me were just as prickish as Armand. Although nobody got under my skin more than Armand. Speaking of whom, I remembered Dad shuffling things around so Armand could come tomorrow. I would have preferred none of them
