“Mr. Bennett said to tell you he is on his way. He also asked that we make sure your luggage is ready to be loaded.” She told her she only had the one thing. “Then we did okay. We have a lovely lounge area that you can wait in. There’s a bar, and Mr. Bennett has a tab set up for you.”
“No thanks. I’ll wait over there.” Kari walked over to the window seats and sat down. Exhaustion seemed to be her best friend lately, and she closed her eyes as she leaned her head back. Her appetite was shit too. When Izzy had told her she looked like she’d lost weight that she could ill afford to lose, Kari weighed herself in the bathroom. She’d lost over twenty pounds over the last five weeks, the last two weeks living with Steele. Most of it was due to not having any money at the bar, but lately she wasn’t all that hungry either. And she was so tired.
Someone touched her and she came up quickly. Her fist connected with a face, but she was terrified from being awakened and didn’t see who it was first. Kari hadn’t even realized she’d fallen asleep until then. Steele pulled her to his body even as she tried to get a grip on things.
“I’ve got you. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have startled you like that.” Kari tried to pull away from him, awake now that he held her. “Just a minute longer, please. You scared me too.”
“I was asleep.” She felt stupid for saying that and felt her temper rise up. “I hit you again. You’d think you’d learn to just not touch me. Let me go, will you? It’s not right that you try to hold me all the time.”
“You’d think that, wouldn’t you…that I’d learn?” He laughed a little, then pulled back. He stared at her for several seconds before he spoke again. “What’s wrong with you? You’re pale and there are dark circles under your eyes. And have you lost more weight? I think you have.”
Kari pulled away from him and picked up her bag. “If you’re ready, so am I. I have to be back so I can go to work day after tomorrow. I told Chad, but he said you had to okay him coming back for me. I have to work.”
He looked…well, she thought he looked hurt, but was sure that wasn’t it. “I’ll make arrangements for you to be picked up. Come on. I’ve a car waiting for us.”
By car she assumed his car, but it was a limo. A long, black, sleek thing. Kari paused in mid-step when the driver got out and came to take her bag. She looked at Steele, who was frowning at her.
“I’ve never…why didn’t you just send a cab or something?” He only shook his head at her. “Do you have to show off every time you come and see me for some reason? Or is this part of your job perks?”
“No, I hired him for the time you’re here. Are you going to get in?” She moved to slide in as the driver took her bag. She wasn’t sure what to think when he went to the back of the thing and shoved it in the trunk. It had all her money in it and most of her clothes. When Steele got in and sat across from her, she watched the window behind him slide upward. They were alone again, and it made her nervous and afraid at the same time.
“I’m not used to this kind of living.” He nodded, and she could tell he was distracted. “If you want to get back to work, I can find me a place to stay.”
“I have a hotel for us. I want you to stay with me.” He shifted on the seat, and she could smell him. His scent was like a drug to her. “I want you. I’d like nothing more than to take you right now.”
She nodded. There was no way she was going to admit how much she wanted him as well, but it was for entirely different reason than he wanted her. He needed sex; she needed him. It was dangerous, especially considering that he wanted nothing to do with her beyond sex. She needed the sex too, but she was sure a good deal more than he did. When he shifted on the seat again, she moved across the seats to him to kneel in front of him. Her body needed him to be inside of her…she needed him right now.
“Do you have protection?” He nodded, and she unbuttoned his shirt. “Do we have time to have sex now?”
He knocked on the window once, and when the window lowered about two inches, he told the driver to take the scenic route. Almost as soon as the window was closed, he was pulling her to his mouth.
“Ride me.” She wanted to have him naked inside of her, his cock filling her tightly, but moved back while he reached into his pocket for the condoms. Her heart broke a little, her cat growled at her. But she would do as he wished until she could get away. Kari kept telling herself it was for the best, but she and her cat knew that it wasn’t right. Not like this.