long as they remained verbal, were nuisance value.
Yet if Grant acted on any of them, then the answer had to be yes.
Except who knew for certain? How could she judge?
What good would it do to explain her ex-fiancé was mentally unbalanced?
It wouldn’t change a thing, for the photograph constituted damage already done.
The waiter delivered their order, and Ilana toyed with the food on her plate while Xandro ate with enjoyment.
‘I want to spend time with you.’
Her heart seemed to stop, then race to a quicker beat. ‘I don’t think that’s a good idea.’
‘Because of your ex-fiancé’s threats?’
She wanted to cry out that he didn’t understand…except somehow she suspected he knew too well.
‘Perhaps I’ve lost all trust in the male of the species?’
‘You’re sufficiently intelligent to know all men are not the same.’
‘They all want the same thing.’
‘Sex? There’s a vast difference between sex for the sake of it, and lovemaking.’
‘Really?’
His eyes speared her own. ‘A man who ignores gifting a woman pleasure whilst seeking his own displays carelessness.’
‘Who could doubt your vast experience?’
His soft laughter did strange things to her equilibrium, and for a wild moment she mentally envisaged what it might be like to take Xandro as a lover.
Akin to inviting emotional nirvana…with only one end.
It wouldn’t last, of course. How could it? But oh, what a journey!
‘I have tickets for dinner and a show Tuesday evening. I’d like for you to join me. Shall we say six-thirty?’
Xandro was asking her out?
‘I don’t think—’
‘Six-thirty,’ he insisted as he signalled for the bill.
Independence had her reaching for her wallet, only to have Xandro voice a determined refusal.
Ilana sat in silence as he sent the Bentley along the arterial road leading to Bondi.
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