Roxanne's Redemption (6 page)

* * * *

At five-thirty Roxanne shut down
the
computer for the day
and
got her
hand
bag
before
le
aving
her office.
S
he
waved
to
the night
security guard
on
her way to the parking
lot.
O
nce there
,
she opened her car door
,
got inside,
dropped her bag on the front seat and drove off as she tried to
calm her pounding heart and control
the
shallow breathing
which seemed to come on
whenever she thought about tonight.

After
she reached home
,
she parked in the driveway
.
A
s
soon as
she got inside the house, the phone rang.

“Hello.”

“It’s Sebastian.
Our
date is
for seven-thirty at Ambrosi
.
Do you know how to get there?”

“Yes
.”
She looked at the clock on the
living room wall.
“I’ll see you in an hour
.
”
S
he
hung
up the phone before she could change her mind
as
she desperately wanted.
She
was almost up the top of the stairs when the phone rang again. She went back down the stairs to pick it up
and groaned
when she remembered that
there
was
an extension
on the end table in her bedroom.

“Hello.”

“How
was
your
first day at
work
?”

A smile spread across her face. Kira!

“
It
’s okay, well as much as it can be from now on.”

“What happened?” Kira asked.

Roxanne told her about how she was pretending to date the owner of Ferguson Graphics, Sebastian Ferguson because there
was
a woman
he
’s
trying to get to
leave him alone
.

“She’s completely obsessed with him,” Roxanne said, then told Kira about the elevator conversation.

“Wow!”

Roxanne
snorted.
“My head is spinning too.”

“Well, good luck and remember
girls’
night
is every Friday
.”

“I
will
.”

“Al
l
right
,
have a good time even if you're pretending he might finally be your
P
rince
C
harming.”

God
,
she hoped not
.
L
oving a man who
a
nother
woman
was obsessed with
was a big no.
S
he would rather
stay single and live with fifteen cats than
be caught in the middle
between an
obsessed woman and Sebastian.
“Night
,
Kira
.
T
ell the girls I said hello and I’ll see them Friday.”

“Okay.”
She
hung
up
and
ran
all the way upstairs to the bathroom so she could shower and shave,
and still be ready in good time
.
After she was dressed and ready, Roxanne picked up her jacket, handbag and keys then head
ed
out
.

* * * *

A few minutes before
Sebastian
arriv
ed
at the restaurant, he wondered idly why his palms kept sweating and he suddenly felt like his clothes were
too small. Not long after
,
the answer came. He was nervous.
Of
course he was.
Sebastian wanted tonight to be perfect.

When he finally got to the restaurant he was fifteen minutes early
and
as he was about to exit his car
,
a
r
ed Ferrari California pulled up next to him
.
When
the driver stepped
out
,
he had to check if he was drooling
;
while stopping his jaw from
falling to
the ground.

It was Roxanne. She was
wearing
a red dress. Not too short, but not too long
and
the way
it emphasize
d
her curves ma
de
his mouth water
.
H
is cock hardened
painfully
.
Damn
! He felt like a teenager with a crush on his very sexy English teacher
—
come to think of it, he
did
have
a crush on his English teacher back in high school.

She was
hot and he wouldn’t mind skipping the restaurant
to
return home with her.
Sebastian
got out of his car
,
smil
ing
at her when she looked at him
.
He
wanted to say something, but his brain
chose that particular moment
to shut down
,
leav
ing
his cock
in charge
.

H
e locked his car
then
turned to face her
.
S
he was already walking around her car toward
him;
he took her hand
when she reached
his side
.
She
tried to pull it away
,
but
he
tightened his grip
.

“You look beautiful,” he
finally
said when his brain started working again.

She smiled
and he felt his heartbeat sp
e
ed up
.
“Thank you
.
You
look good
,
too.”

They
walked
hand in hand to the restaurant
.
W
hen the
y got inside the hostess smiled and greeted them
.
“
Welcome to Ambrosi.
May
I help
you
?”

Sebastian returned the smile
before
replying
,
“Table for two please, under the name Ferguson.” The hostess nodded once
then
they
follow
ed her through the restaurant to their table. She
handed them the menu
as she
said, “
Your
waiter will be with you
shortly
.”

Their waiter arrived
while they were looking at the menus. “
Hello
, I’ll be your waiter for the evening.
May
I take your drink order
s
?”

Sebastian turned to Roxanne
.
“Do you mind if I order our drink?”

He asked because he knew most women d
id
n't like
it
when their dates ordered
anything
for them and he didn't know if Roxanne was
like that
.
She
shook her
head;
he turn
ed
to their waiter.
“
A
bottle of Castelvero Barbera d'Asti
, please
.”

“Yes
,
sir
,
”
the waiter said.

“Did you forget that we drove here?” He
returned his attention back to
Roxanne
at her words,
sh
a
k
ing
his head
.
“Then, why did you order wine?”
she said.

“I’m
sorry;
I can order something else if you like
.
I thought half
a
glass of wine wouldn’t be too much to get us so drunk that we couldn’t drive home after
ward
.”

She sighed and he wondered if sh
e was angry at him for assuming. He hid his relie
f
when she mumbled
,
“That’s al
l
right.”

A few minutes
later
the waiter returned with the bottle of
wine
and
two
glasses
.

Chapter
Six

Sebastian watched as the waiter poured wine into Roxanne’s glass
.
S
he stop
ped him when her glass was half
-f
.
He
did the same
.
The
waiter
set
the
bottle
into the wine bucket
and
turned to
Roxanne.
“Are you ready to order your appetizers?”

After they placed their orders and the waiter left, Sebastian sipped at his wine before returning
his
attention to Roxanne.
“Tell me
about yourself
.”

She shook her head
.
“It’s not a real
date
.
Let’s
talk about something else.”

Sebastian sighed. “Al
l
right, tell me about what Ashley said today in the elevator
.
” Her eyes widen
ed
and
he suppressed
a
chuckle.
“Yes, I heard about it so tell me.”

“Why?”

“I need to know
.
Besides
I'm the reason you’re
involved
in the first place
,” he said
.

S
he hesitated for a minute before
mumbling
, “She said I wasn’t your type and you
wanted her not me. I didn't answer that
n
or
did I answer
when she
asked
whether
I
could
please a man like you in bed.”

“Can you?” he asked jokingly and regretted it at once
.
H
e didn't want her
to
get scared and r
u
n away
plus
his
erection
hardened
more
at the thought
. Her eyes widen
ed
, but instead of running like he assumed
she would
,
she looked away
.
W
he
n she
looked back at him
,
he saw relief in her eyes
. He didn't have to wait long to find out why.

“Here comes
the
waiter with our food.”

They ate their appetizers in silence.
After they were finished the waiter collect
ed
their plates before leaving again.
Sebastian decided the best way to know about her was by asking questions about her life, just nothing too personal.