"What's the surprise?" she asked before they got to the door.
Darian grinned. "I'm taking you home with me."
She froze in her tracks and shook her head. "I don't think it's a good idea. I doubt I'll even be good at … you know."
"Sex?" he asked and lifted a brow.
Larkin could feel her face heat with a blush but nodded.
"Let me worry about that. There's a lot we need to learn about each other."
"I'll just disappoint you."
"No, I can guarantee you won't."
She sighed and looked away. She was terrified she'd disappoint him so badly he'd never want to see her again. For the umpteenth time, she asked herself why she was letting herself fall for him when she couldn't see it going anywhere but breaking her heart. Maybe she just needed to tell him to take her home?
"Larkin, look at me."
She looked back at him.
"If you run from me again. I will spank your ass until it's bright red."
She gasped at the words even as her body spiked in a heated arousal.
"Do you understand?"
She snapped her mouth shut and nodded.
Darian chuckled. "I think you might like the idea of my hand on your ass. Don't you, sweetheart?"
She nodded, still in a daze, and then stopped when she realized what she was admitting to.
He rolled his eyes. "Come on, let's go," he said and maneuvered her out the door.
Larkin stopped short right outside the doorway and gawked at the limo parked on the street.
"Let's go."
"Has he been parked there the whole night?"
"Yes," Darian said and waited for Hicks to open the door.
"You can't do that," she informed Darian.
Hicks's lips twitched.
"You will be amazed at the things I can do, sweetheart."
She stiffened when he tried to get her into the back of the car. All her friends and her manager had told her that he was a good man and she was safe with him, but she really knew very little about him. "Who are you? Are you like the mayor or something?"
"You already know you can trust me."
"All I know is your name, that you work with four other guys, and you live on top of a building."
"How about we go home and talk? We have a lot to learn about each other."
She balked again when he tried to get her into the car. "Wait! Why do we have to go there?"