One Bite With A Stranger (The Others, Book 1)

She appeared round, awaiting to determine Dmitri poised someplace within the shadows. He wasn't there, yet she nonetheless may have sworn his hands slipped underneath her hair and caressed the again of her neck. She brushed the feeling off as mind's eye, at the very least till she felt the precise strain of a hand pat her ass and squeeze the cheek affectionately. She jumped approximately 8 inches and seemed round, yet not anyone was once remotely shut sufficient to have touched her. She scowled, and a shiver raced via her. Gregory spotted her tremble whilst he pulled out her chair, and he frowned. "Are you chilly? " "Not at all," she acknowledged. She regarded warily round her back earlier than slipping into the chair and pulling her recognition again to the guy in entrance of her. She smiled coyly and fluttered her lashes at him. "In truth, it is a bit scorching in right here. do not you settle? " Greg provided her his smoothest smile. "I do not have a couple of minutes in the past, yet that used to be ahead of I observed you in that costume. Reggie, you glance gorgeous. " She smiled and thanked him prettily, grim pride stirring inside her as she enable her awful, dishonest ex succeed in around the desk and canopy her hand along with his. the instant felt a piece surreal. not only as the chance for revenge had come so without warning, yet simply because she had anticipated to get extra delight out of it. "You're much more attractive than I remember," Greg persisted, staring at her along with his intensely blue eyes as he raised her hand to his lips. His mouth brushed slowly throughout her knuckles. "What may well i've been pondering to allow you to escape from me? " "I used to ask yourself that myself," Reggie stated, leaning towards him flirtatiously whilst her moral sense let loose a fierce protest. She wasn't doing whatever fallacious, and the jerk deserved to endure. "I bet I simply assumed you hadn't been considering in any respect. " Greg winced and nonetheless controlled to appear beautiful. heavily, cannot that experience tipped her off approximately him sooner than she wasted years at the jerk? "I deserved that," he acknowledged, squeezing her hand lightly. "I did not deal with you ways you deserved, Reggie. and that i wish you to grasp that I remorse it. " Reggie raised an eyebrow. "You do, do you? " It used to be changing into a fight to not permit her confusion exhibit on her face. definite, whilst she'd picked up the telephone that afternoon, a mystery a part of her had was hoping that Greg's name signaled a wish on his half to grovel at her ft and beg her forgiveness. Which she could, certainly, coldly withhold whereas she beaten him underneath the heels of her very fetching Beverly Feldmans. the matter used to be that she'd identified all alongside that it used to be a myth. even if they might been jointly, she'd by no means heard Greg make an apology to her. but the following she was once, sitting throughout a tiny bar desk from her dishonest ex-fiancé, who was once truthfully begging her forgiveness and being strangely responsive to her each note and motion. extra attentive, in reality, than he'd been over the last 9 months in their dating. Greg's consciousness had mounted on her like a ravenous guy mounted at the demonstrate in a bakery window.