He deserved to really feel that a lot no less than.

“Luna, if you wish to speak about—“

“No,” she interjected shortly. “Thanks, although. I-I simply need to reside within the current.”

He nodded, then smiled. In all probability relieved to not should hash out their sordid breakup. “Okay, however when you change your thoughts, I’m right here, okay?”

She clasped his hand and allowed him to guide her to the entrance door after which to the elevator. She didn’t just like the twinge of guilt his variety phrases produced inside her. She had nothing to really feel responsible about, no less than, not but. That emotion was all on him.

It wasn’t till he led her to the entrance of a constructing, the place a driver stood beside a stretch limousine, that she forgot all her misgivings and centered on the current. “That is ours?”

He nodded. “It positive is. I hoped you’d be impressed.”

She laughed, her throat squeezing with a ridiculous quantity of delight. She’d by no means been into the needing to be seen crowd, like lots of the rich individuals appeared to get pleasure from. However there was one thing ridiculously pleasing about him wanting to provide her the perfect, even simply of an evening. “I’m impressed,” she declared, earlier than she slid into the very again of the limousine.

He slid in beside her, the chauffeur then closing the door and enclosing them in their very own bubble, the place the surface world seemingly now not existed. Little surprise. The motive force’s seat was nowhere to be seen, not with the blue-neon lit partition in entrance of them that featured a tv taking part in clips of crooning love songs, and an inbuilt bar that had recessed areas for frosted glasses. A champagne bottle rested in ice inside its specifically constructed receptacle.

“So that is how the wealthy reside,” she mentioned with broad eyes.

Aiden leaned ahead and lifted the champagne bottle from its ice tub, then proceeded to pop its cork. Taking out the material serviette folded inside a protracted, slender flute, he poured her a glass earlier than he poured one for himself.

He lifted his drink and he or she adopted swimsuit, the glasses clinking collectively like a convincing, high-pitched bell. “Cheers.”

“Cheers,” she repeated.

She swallowed a few of the fizzing, liquid gold, all too shortly feeling giddy and full of anticipation. She’d be pleased simply circling the town on this automobile for hours, consuming champers and gazing deep into the eyes of the person she’d as soon as been deeply, irrevocably in love with.

She’d been a silly lady, a youngster who’d worn her coronary heart on her sleeve and her feelings open for all to see. She’d lived lots since then. Not sexually, although she’d been shut a number of occasions. Even when her heartbreak hadn’t pressured her to develop up quick, travelling and partaking in a great deal of life experiences had made her stronger, wiser. And maybe a little bit extra cynical and bitter.

Aiden’s darkish eyes appeared to sparkle with an unnatural mild because of the glowing blue neon. A tiny shiver went via her. It was a surreal second, regardless of which approach she checked out it.

Not solely had he paid an exorbitant payment thus far her for the night time—which by no means assured intercourse, it was solely implied—he’d made every day and night time unforgettable in some ways, not least of which had been their intimacy.

Intercourse with Aiden had been eye-opening and wonderful. It’d been…magical.

She swallowed previous a sudden lump in her throat. Leaving him wasn’t going to be as straightforward as she’d envisioned. However then nothing in life got here straightforward, least of all confronting her personal demons by being with Aiden as soon as once more, then dumping him.

“What do you consider your shock thus far?” he requested with a smile.

She sucked down some extra champagne. “I’m not going to complain, that’s for positive.”

He chuckled. “I’m glad to listen to it.”

She stared at him as he sat within the seat proper subsequent to her, his shoulder and thigh brushing towards hers. They’d the posh of a lot house and but they could as nicely be sitting in a mini-minor. She snorted a little bit on the realization. Then conceded she would have been offended if he hadn’t sat shut.

This was their time collectively, and although he mightn’t realize it but, that point could be quick. She’d be profiting from it whereas it lasted.

“One other?” he provided, retrieving the champagne bottle.

She nodded. “Certain. It’s not daily a lady will get to experience round behind a limousine.”

He poured her one other glass, his tooth a blinding white beneath the neon as he smiled. “If it makes you this pleased I’ll you should definitely take you once more.”

She didn’t reply, simply accepted her drink and gulped half of the contents down in a few swallows. Her abdomen rolled. Their days collectively had been numbered. There could be no extra limousine rides after this one.

He arched a forehead. “Are you okay?”

She glanced out the tinted home windows, her pulse fluttering at seeing the too acquainted homes outdoors. “I-I feel so.” She frowned. “The place are we going?”

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