He slid out of my slowly and collapsed onto the seat across from me.
I sat up and pulled my skirt down, then searched the limo floor for my panties.
Noah buttoned his pants and looked at me through hooded eyes. “You really shouldn’t be wearing such revealing outfits, Charlotte,” he admonished. “You’ll get all kinds of attention that might lead to bad things.”
“I’ll take my chances,” I said. I was still out of breath, still exhilarated by the fact that he’d called me into his limo and fucked me. It meant he still wanted me, and even though it was wrong, I liked it.
Noah reached over and pushed a button on the console in the arm rest next to him.
“Yes?” the voice came.
“We’ll be taking my guest home now,” he said. “Do you remember her address from this morning, Jared?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Thank you.”
He clicked off and I stared at him, aghast. “We’ll be taking my guest home now?” I repeated incredulously.
“Oh, I’m sorry.” He was pulling a bottle of water from a cooler that was attached to the side of the door. “Did you have somewhere else you were planning to go?”
“No, I just…” I trailed off, looking out the window so he wouldn’t see the hurt in my eyes. I enjoyed having sex with him. I did. It was amazing and wonderful and physically the greatest pleasure I’d ever felt. But to be just called into his limo like this and then brought home?
I blinked back a few tears and took a deep breath. You’re being a baby, I told myself. He’s a beautiful, rich man who could have any woman he wanted. You saw that girl in the picture. She could have been – probably was – a model. Noah hadn’t made any promises to me, he hadn’t told me he wanted to be with me in any way other than a sexual one.
It was my decision to get down on my knees and suck his dick like some kind of unpaid prostitute. So if I should be upset with anyone, I should be upset with myself.
I blinked a few more times until my eyes were clear. And then I realized we were in my neighborhood. This whole time I’d thought we’d been driving around aimlessly, that Noah had told his driver to waste time. But instead, we’d been heading toward my neighborhood, like Noah had always known he was going to be sending me home.
I was mad now.
And not just at myself.
“Would you like some water, Charlotte?” Noah asked me.
“No.”
We were getting closer to my apartment, and I couldn’t wait to get out of there. I couldn’t wait to leave him in his stupid limo with his stupid driver and his stupid everything. I never wanted to see him again in my life. I was already opening the door as the limo slowed to a crawl.
I stepped out onto the sidewalk and rushed toward my building.
I heard Noah call my name, but I ignored him.
I fumbled with the key to my front door, cursing the fact that I lived in a three-story walk up and not one of those fancy apartment buildings that came with a doorman. Flouncing off to my doorman would have been much more dramatic.
“Charlotte,” Noah said, suddenly by my side. “Charlotte, what’s wrong?”
“Are you kidding me?” I asked. “You’re seriously asking me that? You’ve fucked me three times now, and each time, you pretty much just leave. No ‘I’ll call you later’, no ‘talk to you soon, Charlotte’ or ‘I had a nice time, Charlotte.’ Just nothing.”
“I asked you to have breakfast with me this morning.”
“Right before you kicked me out of your apartment!”
He looked shocked. “I’m sorry,” he said. “That’s just how these things go for me.”
“What the hell is that supposed to mean?”
“It means that it is what it is.”
“Yeah, well, I don’t have to do whatever this is anymore.” I pushed open the door to my building and stepped inside, but he followed me into the lobby.
He grabbed my shoulders and pushed me up against the wall. “Do you know how hard it is for me to keep my hands off of you?”
“I’m not your toy,” I said. “You can’t just have me whenever you want. I’m a person, Noah.”
“I know that,” he said, his dark eyes fiery with passion. “You think I don’t know that?”
“Then why aren’t you acting like it?” I didn’t care if I was breaking every rule in the girl code book, the one where you weren’t supposed to ask a man where your relationship stood. Especially one you’d just met. But I wasn’t going to let Noah just use me like that. Even if the sex was incredible.