Chapter 39

I like this place; it gives you that instant calm feeling of being somewhere safe and welcoming, like being in his arms. I shake that thought from my head before my brain follows the being in his arms to something a little more X-rated and remind myself I’m supposed to be dissecting this man and figuring him out.

“That depends on how much I’m allowed to know,” I ask with a slight brow raise and a half-smile. My seductress side is smoothly flowing now I am more at ease. I, too, am drawing serenity from our calm abode.

“Whatever you want. I meant it when I said I would earn your trust. If that means being an open book and telling you whatever you want to know, then here we are.” He gestures around him, overseeing me.

“You could have done that at the club. Why bring me here?”

Because Alexi is a devious shit, who likes to set a scene and manipulate a response, it’s what he does, and he does it so well. I have seen him do it for his own ends a hundred times.