been ordered for her.
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Alexis rubbed her palms together nervously. She was trying to keep them dry for the next five minutes. That’s how long it would be until six. She had been getting ready since four-thirty, something that she had not done for a date since she was a freshman in college. She had a feeling this date would be a little nicer than the one to the local pizza place where the college one had been.
She had to admit, even though she had kept fixing every little thing about herself until she had let herself move from the mirror to the lobby: she looked sexy. It had been hard to find exactly the right mixture of the conservative innocence and prowling sex kitten, she thought. Not the she planned on sex; that was another story. She stood waiting on the steps of the hotel in her midnight blue cocktail dress that she had managed to find on sale today, because she could not bear the thought of wearing anything she had brought in her small suitcase from the States. She would go broke if she kept thinking this way – but how often do you get asked out by a multi-millionaire?
Just before six, a black car with tinted windows pulled up, and Richard Greene got out, smiling and dashing as usual in his dark gray suit.
“You should have waited inside for me,” he chastised playfully. He put his hand over his heart and stilled just before he reached her. “You look absolutely stunning.”
“Thank you,” she said, trying to feel the confidence that she thought should come with her outfit.
She accepted the kiss on the cheek from him and followed him to the car.
“I trust you like your new accommodations?” he said with a grin.
“That was really too generous of you, actually,” she answered seriously. “I can’t stay there for a whole week. That must cost a fortune, and you don’t even know me!”
“Firstly, I have a fortune. Secondly, I think the point of tonight is getting to know each other,” he said playfully. “Let’s leave that alone for now. What did you have in mind for tonight?”
“What?” she asked, taken off guard. “Oh, I guess I assumed you would have plans, but we can come up with something to do!”
He grinned at her discomfort. “I like you.”
She smiled down at her lap, unable to look at him while he was looking at her so intensely.
“Look at me,” he said. Her eyes met his tentatively. He placed his finger delicately under her chin. “I said, ‘I like you’.” As he nearly whispered these words, he leaned in to kiss her softly on her lips. He pulled away, leaving them with an intense electrical moment where it was all Alexis could do not to grab him. It was only a breath until he kissed her again, more forcefully this time, answering Alexis’s thirst.
For a few minutes, they entered into an uncontrollable desire for each other that encased them so they were completely cut off from the outside world. Alexis did not care that she was sitting in the back of a limo where the driver could clearly see and hear them. She did not care that she had only interacted with this person for less than an hour in total so far, and she did not care how far they went in this moment. She had never felt this kind of jolt when kissing someone, such a magical surge.
He slowed down his kisses as they became aware that their vehicle had been stopped for a couple of minutes, although they had not been disturbed.
“I think we’re here,” he whispered, smiling up at her sweetly. “Logan drives to quickly. Should I have him go back around the