Chapter 5

She looked completely lost in thought, and he felt completely out of his depth. He was a guy who had no problems with being in the company of the fairer sex, yet he was acting like an idiot. He decided to perch on his desk, put some distance between them and put all of this down to still being half drunk and crazily horny from last night. He dated women twice her height; confident, boring models and women with their own money. Women who knew what causal sex and having a good time was all about, and he knew how to read women effortlessly—until this one.

She was tightly closed and completely unreadable, with no hint of anything. No signs of interest. The complete opposite, and her mannerisms and movements were so precisely graceful and swan-like that he felt he was the one being scrutinized for a job. He figured this was the problem right here. She made him uncomfortable because he had no way of knowing how to play her at all. And playing women in all sorts of games was pretty m