Chapter 132

He’s bored and wants to go out now it’s all wrapped up tonight; he’s eager to get going. I can tell that restless nature is fed up with the mature dinner and business chat with the company he is not enamoured with. It’s practically coming off him in waves of heightened sparking energy that is settling around me, that need to release his excess. Buzzing and coercing me to feel that way too. He affects everything around me so effortlessly.

He gets up and pulls my chair out to coax me to do the same, eager to get moving now he has seen an escape route, tossing his credit card on the table for the bill as the waitress comes scurrying over. Hand on my naked skin at the back of my dress, other on my arm as he slides me to my feet and keeps a hold on me.

“Yeah, minus the ball and chain. We will leave them home, and the four of us can go have a real man’s night out.” Arrogant cousin grins directly at me for a second, and I don’t miss the implied tone. Rob is testing my patience.