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dinner with him?” I wouldn’t cancel my plans if Charlie wasn’t because I was an adult, but I also didn’t want this to be weird.
    “Honestly?” he asked, not moving from his position and his focus intense.
    “Yeah, of course.”
    He exhaled softly, his eyes trained on mine. “If there was one guy I’d want you to be with, it would be Dex.”
    Okay, that threw me for a little bit of a loop. “Really?” My eyebrows knitted, the tightness in my face letting him know my confusion was clear.
    “I mean, he’s no saint, but there’s no one that’ll look after you better than he will.”
    That made me feel all tingly, knowing Charlie approved of Dex and me, and even if he’d said a lot of intense things the other night, I didn’t want to let this control me. I had to stay in reality; I knew if I let myself really go off the deep end, the fall would be devastating.
    I looked down, my thoughts full of all the things that could go wrong. “I’ve cared about him for a long time.” When I didn’t get a response, I looked up at Charlie again.
    “I know, Eva,” he said softly. “I’m not blind. I’ve never been blind to the way you look at him … and the way he’s looked at you.”
    There I was, going through a loop again. “You did? He did?” I thought I’d kept how I felt to myself, but apparently not.
    “You and Dex are both transparent as hell.”
    I felt my cheeks heat at this revelation, but it felt right, good even. “I thought this would bother you, even if it’s only dinner.”
    Charlie shook his head. “It’s not just dinner, not to him, Eva. I know Dex, and he doesn’t do this kind of shit.”
    I didn’t speak because I didn’t know what to say.
    “Hell, he hasn’t been with a woman in a long damn time, and even before then he didn’t sleep around. He always seemed distant in that regard.”
    Although I didn’t want to really hear about Dex and anything he did with other women in the past, hearing that he hadn’t been this major manwhore straight from Charlie felt really good.
    It’s not like I’d been celibate, but knowing Dex hadn’t been with woman in a long time made me feel like things were going in the right direction. Maybe that was stupid of me, but if shit hit the fan, I’d deal with it then. Until that time—if that even happened—I was going to just roll with this.

6
    Dex

    W e left the bar , but I wasn’t damn near done with the night, and I hoped she wasn’t either. I held the door open for her, and she stepped out of the restaurant. I wasn’t about to deny myself and didn’t give a fuck who saw … I leaned in and inhaled the sweet scent that always clung to her.
    I followed her out, and we walked in silence to the car. I was glad she’d let me pick her up. Eva could be headstrong, but if we were doing this, then I wanted to do it right.
    “Let me get that,” I said and unlocked the passenger side door for her. I held it open, watched her climb in, and saw a blush stealing over her cheeks. Truth was I wanted to be a gentleman with her, but I also wanted her so fucking badly. Doing something like holding the car door open let me watch her long legs fold into the car as she got in. It allowed me to see the slight rise of her skirt as she shifted on the seat.
    It allowed me to get my fill of her.
    I must have stood there for too long, because she looked up at me. “You got it engrained in your memory?” she said, but I heard the teasing note in her voice.
    I cleared my throat. I didn’t get embarrassed very often, but having Eva call me out on checking her out had done just that. I closed the door and walked around the car, my cock hard, but there was no way I was hiding the fucker. I didn’t want tonight to be about her thinking all I wanted was a fuck.
    I wanted her, of course. But this was about us connecting on a deeper level. I hadn’t lied or sugarcoated what I wanted with her.
    I wanted my baby in her.
    I wanted her as my woman.
    I wanted her as