like blackmail.”
Mom’s lips tightened and her eyes grew angry, but she seemed to control her words. “You soften him, then,” she finally said, and that kind of hurt.
“He worked hard for his money and he does not owe anyone,” I said, maybe snottily.
Then I gave her a quick hug, practically an air hug. “Have a good trip back, mom.”
And I left quickly after. After that scene, I wasn’t in the mood to shop for something sexy to wear to dinner, but I walked across the street to look, and after a little while I got back in the mood.
My first real date with Beck!
I needed a killer black dress.
Chapter Ten
Beck felt as if he’d been punched in the gut when he first laid eyes on Millie that evening. The black dress she wore cupped her generous breasts with a deep revealing v, while the short skirt of the outfit clung to her curvy hips. There was a ruffle on the bottom hem that drew his eyes down her sexy bare legs, until his jaw hardened as his gaze landed on her heels. They had to be five inch stilettos, and what his mind immediately called them “fuck me” heels.
It took a lot of control not to snatch Millie up and drag her to his hotel room, as he watched her swaying towards him.
But her eyes were eating him up as much as his eyes were eating her up, while he straightened his suit jacket, and tried not to fall to his knees to worship in front of her. It probably made him look fierce with his jaw tight as she stopped in front of him.
“Oh wow, Beck, you look so hot in a suit,” Millie said quietly, but intensely, so people around them couldn’t hear.
Of all the things he thought she would say that wasn’t it, and it sidetracked him for a second. He looked down at his suit, he hadn’t really been a suit wearing kind of guy, but being a billionaire now, maybe it was time to start. He had to admit he felt good when it meant a woman like Millie, dressed like Millie, was at his side.
He smiled with a side quirk of his lips. “Thanks, boo.”
She touched his arm and smiled back, and he lifted that arm until he had it around the back of her waist, clasped warmly to the indent.
He dipped his lips next to her ear. “Got to say, baby, those fucking heels make me want to see them wrapped around my waist, you moaning my name.”
He had not intended for their evening to start out like this, or end like this. He had been planning something like a first date, and then maybe they could clear the air. But when he felt her quiver against him, he thought the possibilities had just gotten bigger.
“Like before?” She turned and whispered against his jaw. “I can’t stop thinking about that.”
He was a little surprised, but then instantly more aroused. It had been an angry hard fuck, and she’d been so hot in his arms, she had exploded.
He pulled her against him. “Yeah, just like that. We work things out, I want more of that.”
Her lips were at his jaw for a heated moment as her body melted into his, and then she pulled back, because they were in the lobby of a hotel. But she didn’t move completely out of his arm clasped around her back. Looking down into her eyes, he saw the answer was a heated “yes” full of arousal.
“Maybe we should eat,” she said, but it was breathless. His eyes ignited even hotter. “I didn’t mean that,” she admonished, even more breathless.
He chuckled. “Come on, beautiful, let’s go public.”
He’d gotten them a private room, a private table, and a private view of the city lights. He was putting it out like he had money, and she was worth every penny of it with a sparkle in her eyes and her lips soft and inviting.
Beck was pretty certain they both felt like they owned the night. For the first time in their lives they were out in public as a couple. And they weren’t afraid.
He could tell Millie had given it up, he could tell she’d finally stopped worrying about what other people thought or had to say, and stopped worrying about