Free The Seduction Game by Anastasia Maltezos

wasn’t in his life. She didn’t even want to have dinner with him. His face hardened. “No.” He thought he caught a glimpse of disappointment on her face, but it disappeared so quickly he decided he must have imagined it.
    She rose gracefully and tentatively stood on her injured foot. “I think I’d better call it quits today. It feels a little sore.”
    “Do you need help getting to your car?”
    A brief flash of alarm darkened her features and her gaze wavered under his. “N…no. Thank you.” She leaned towards him and placed a hand on his arm. “You’re very kind.”
    “It was no trouble.” There was that feeling again. That strange twist in his gut that told him something wasn’t right.
    Her breasts were a mere three inches from his chest and he avoided looking down at the abundant cleavage she displayed. He bit back a grimace. What the hell was the matter with him? Here was a beautiful woman who was obviously interested in him and he was acting like, hell, he didn’t know what he was acting like, because he’d never acted like this before.
    “Adam, I would like to show you my appreciation for coming to my rescue and buy you a drink tonight. I’ll be at Fantasies tonight at nine o’clock.” She leaned a little closer and her breasts almost brushed his chest. He felt another familiar tug in his gut, a tug that reached his loins. “Meet me there.” And without another word, she turned around and sauntered out of the court.
    Adam didn’t even have time to contemplate why she walked out of the court without so much as a limp, all he could see was the gentle sway of her backside, and he imagined the waist-length, light brown, silken hair reaching the sultry curve of her hips. Kate’s hair.
    Disgusted, he shook himself out of his reverie. He had to stop thinking about Kate Moore.
    “Well?” Kyle asked the moment Adam reached his side.
    He made a firm decision. “I’m meeting her tonight.”

Chapter 6
    Fantasies was in full swing by the time Adam arrived. He looked around, trying to find Katrina amongst the crowds, but couldn’t see her anywhere.
    He strode to the bar and ordered a whisky shot. He downed it, then leaned back against the bar and narrowed his dark gaze at all the people around him. He caught a group of women on the side giggling and stealing glances at him. He raised his glass in a silent salute and they all smiled. His lips curled sardonically as he glanced around. Everyone was either looking for that someone special or looking for a night filled with lust and pleasure.
    Judging by the predatory looks he was getting from a number of women, he seemed high on the list for that prize. Maybe another time, another night he may have felt inclined to talk to them, but tonight was different. Since he’d met Katrina something didn’t sit well in his gut and he needed to get to the bottom of it.
    He noticed a couple kissing to his left and he wondered cynically if that was the love of a committed couple or if they had just met.
    Love. It came with a price. Pain, humiliation, betrayal. Dana had been too young to remember how their mother betrayed their father. How she had had countless affairs, letting their father work himself to the bone to support them, but his father loved his wife and would do anything to make her happy. The boating trip had been a gift he had scrimped and saved for over a year to surprise his wife with a long weekend at sea, but it had ended with their deaths when a sudden squall capsized them and sent them both to a watery grave.
    Then there was Diana. Beautiful and elegant, cold and calculating. Diana Rowlings was the first woman Adam ever loved, and the last woman he ever loved. Not even Kyle knew why they’d broken up. Adam met Diana at a party a few months after his parents died. They shared a drink and a dance and that was all Adam needed to fall madly in love with her. She was poised, intelligent, graceful, everything he had ever wanted in a woman. After a