106 Disappointments

Becca.

This date is not turning out to be what I envisaged or expected. Where is the sexual bond I was sure we created in that office this morning? Why am I feeling as if we have taken some steps backward since then?

“Do you know why I am sitting here while I allow you to sit over there all alone?” The man commented suddenly again and I wondered if his motive was to give me high blood pressure.

Unfortunately, I am too curious to pretend disinterest. Not when I have been angrily wondering the same thing for the past ten minutes we have been on the road.

I arched an eyebrow pointedly in silent enquiry and he smiled before answering.

“Because you are so beautiful I am not sure we will make it to the dinner if I allow myself to get close. Even now, it takes all the self control I have not to leap across the space that is between us.” He told me outright without any effort at censorship.

“Aha.” That’s all I could say. Aware that there is nothing I could do about the blush covering th