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smells delicious.”
    “I hope you like meat. I mean red meat. Some girls don’t.”
    She looked at me with those eyes, obviously wondering how many girls I had dated and prepared romantic dinners for. “I mean… I mean many girls, in general, don’t like meat or don’t eat it at all,” I tried to explain to her piercing eyes. “I don’t really do this often, even rarely. In fact, this is the first time I’ve done something like this.”
    She smiled, amused by my babbling.
    “Do you want some wine?” I asked, trying to change the subject.
    “Yes, please.”
    While I served the wine, she stared at the fireplace and walked past the table, touching the roses with her fingertips, walking with the elegance of a cat and alluring light of a goddess. She was so beautiful that I almost spilled the wine on myself because I couldn’t stop looking at her. I was so clumsy around her! I tried to act cool and calm, but I was always nervous and unsure of what to do to make her look at me the way I looked at her.
    “The wine is really good and sweet,” she said after a while of confusing silence as we just stared at each other.
    It hit me that I hadn’t kissed her at the door. I should have kissed her. But then I probably wouldn’t have been able to stop, and the night would’ve been ruined. Not ruined, but it would have been a failure that I didn’t want to regret. I wanted us to have a romantic dinner. I wanted to talk to her and learn things about her.
    “I’m glad you like it. Are you hungry?”
    “What’s your plan?” she asked, playing with her finger on the top of the glass. She wet her fingertip and sucked it off with her lips, making me swallow hard. She was being naughty on purpose.
    “My plan for what?”
    “For tonight.”
    “Dinner, talking and―perhaps a massage so you’ll stop being so tense all the time,” I replied.
    She pursed her lips together and then she grinned. “Weren’t you planning on taking me to bed?”
    She was so blunt sometimes that I didn’t know how to react. I didn’t know if she was testing me or trying to find an excuse to get rid of me. Was she searching for some kind of excuse like ones women use to lose interest in a guy, like his being too much of a player or not romantic enough, or just wanting to jump into their pants and leave them afterward?
    “Annabel,” I whispered in her ear, making sure not to touch her. Her heartbeat accelerated, her skin got the chills, and her pupils dilated, not to mention how delicious she smelled and how the excitement only increased the scent. My own body got tense and aroused. “Let your guard down and trust me. Nothing will happen that you don’t want to happen. I’m not trying to get you drunk or trick you. I just want to get to know you better.”
    “Shane,” she replied with her sexy, hot, and alluring voice that sent spirals of lust down my spine. “I have nothing against sleeping with you. I’m fully dressed for that.”
    I couldn’t help looking at her cleavage, noticing her perky breasts and luxurious, soft skin. Under that dress would be some kind of sexy lingerie that I almost couldn’t wait to see and take off to get between her legs. Thoughts like those only made me aroused and impatient...
    “I’m not easy to take to bed. You’ll have to work for it,” I said softly, catching her off guard. She looked at me and shook her head like she thought I was unbelievable. “And don’t think for a moment that I won’t punish you if you try to ruin this night with your irony and inability to take me seriously,” I warned her. “Just trust me for a while tonight,” I requested, caressing her soft face with a finger. I wanted to be perfect, to make her enjoy herself and make her fall in love with me.
    “Okay, Shane. I’ll stop being sarcastic and trust you,” she whispered close to my mouth.
    I smiled, pleased because it was clear by the way she’d reacted to me and looked around attentively that she didn’t