The ride back to the hotel was silent. But inside my head, there was still a storm.
I tried to convince myself that everything that had happened tonight was nothing—just business…just Alex being Alex. But I couldn’t shake off the way he had looked at me when he told Khalid that no one disrespects me in front of him.
The way his voice had dropped as he spoke to me like it was a promise.
The way he had stepped closer when we were outside the dining place as if we were testing a boundary we both pretended existed.
I shifted in my seat while my hands curled into fists on my lap. Beside me, Alex was calm and his face was unreadable as he stared out the window. The golden lights of Dubai flickered across his features and made him look like something that was untouchable, dangerous and inevi
