“Wow.” Kat looked impressed. He wasn’t intending to try and use that as a line, but he wasn’t going to complain that it worked.
“What about you?” AJ asked, switching the focus off of him and back to her. Honestly, he wanted to know more about her. He knew enough about himself.
“Since we’re not sharing details, I can’t give you specifics,” she teased. Her eyes went distant and a smile crept across her face. “I’m working on this big project. If my boss approves it, it will change everything for me.”
“Sounds important,” AJ said.
She grinned. “For me it is. It would change my life. It would be something that I could really be proud of. Something I built and created. I’m putting my heart and soul into it.”
“If you do that, then it’s sure to take off,” he promised. He had a feeling that if Kat put her mind to something, she would succeed. She had this amazing light to her that he just couldn’t get enough of. She was vibrant and happy.
Not only was she exactly what his company was always looking for, she was exactly what he needed in his life.
A thought like that was a little scary, so he switched gears. “Would it be terribly wrong for us to break into this champagne?” AJ asked her, pulling out the bottle from the drink holder.
Kat grinned. “After the day Renee gave me today, she owes me a glass of champagne. Besides, we can always replace it with one from the party when we get back.”
“I like the way you think,” AJ told her.
She laughed. The sound was possibly the most pleasant thing he’d heard this week. In fact, the last thirty minutes had been the highlight of his whole month. He didn’t want to go back to the party. He wanted to stay in this limo with this sexy and vibrant woman, drinking champagne and talking about their families.
Or kissing her.
The longer he sat next to her, with her leg pressing against his, the harder it was to just talk. He wanted to kiss her. To feel her skin. He was starting to wonder if she bit her lip like that during other things, too. He wanted to bite that lip.
He decided right then and there that they weren’t going back to the party. There was no way he was going to let some other guy come in and possibly steal her for even one dance. He was keeping her for the night.
Longer if he could.
5
Fun Kat
They headed back to the reception, and Kat and AJ enjoyed some champagne during the ride. They sat next to each other like they were boyfriend and girlfriend. The moment just felt right and natural. There was no awkwardness and nervousness coming from either of them. The only thing in the air was sexual tension that Kat planned on releasing as soon as they got back to the hotel.
“When we get back, can I see your suite?” Kat asked.
The words just stumbled out of her mouth, as if she had no control at all. The booze was making her so much more forward about her intentions. AJ wrapped his arm over her shoulder and pulled her close before responding, “You don’t need to even ask to see my suite. But since you did, the answer is of course ‘yes’.”
“Maybe I should call Jennifer and tell her that I might be a little late coming back to the room tonight,” Kat said, as the limo neared the end of the park’s loop.
AJ just shrugged as he kept his arm around her. His touch felt safe and she found herself leaning against him, pressing her body as close to his as possible. “You can call her if you like. But to be honest, I doubt she’s going to answer. I saw her leave with one of the groomsmen just before we left the reception and by the look of it, they were getting along quite well. They were all over each other.”
Kat chuckled quietly to herself and put her phone away. AJ was right. There was no way Jennifer was going to answer her call. She was probably already in their hotel room with her tongue down the Brian’s throat. Kat was glad that AJ had informed her what he had seen, since the last thing she wanted to do was to walk in on Jennifer getting hot and heavy with some guy. Friends or not, there were certain things that Kat didn’t need to see Jennifer doing.
Kat continued to press closer to AJ. The driver was hidden behind a blacked out window that separated the front and back. For the first time that entire day, there was nobody else around. Her body filled with fire as AJ gently lifted his hand from her shoulder and brought it to the back of her neck, stroking her skin with his fingertips. His touch felt incredible.
Kat suddenly felt a bit of Scaredy Kat creeping in. The moment was perfect and it was everything she could have wanted. The man of her dreams was sitting next to her. But that was what scared her. She became afraid that somehow she was going to screw it up. AJ was way out of her league, as far as she was concerned, and the insecure girl who still lived inside her told her that she had better be careful not to mess up this moment somehow.