My phone kept ringing and the vibrations rattled ceaselessly against the leather of my purse but I barely registered any of it anymore as I stared at Alex.
His piercing gaze was locked onto mine and his smirk was lazy and full of amusement. But behind that amused smirk was something else—something dark and intense. It was like he was barely holding himself from exploding.
And that? That was enough to make my pulse skitter.
His words hung in the air between us as we stared at each other.
"Is that a lover calling, Sophia?"
At first, I was flustered by the question…I was that completely taken off guard. And then my brain scrambled to tell him that it was only Kelly, my friend calling. Nothing scandalous…nothing that should warrant any worried reaction from him.
I wanted to say that it
