Seducing Texas (So not Prince Charming #2)(32)

When we get home, Willa’s not there, and my heart hammers in my chest. Cyn calls her cell and leaves a message. It looks like she cleaned the place up, which she must’ve done once she got out of school today.

Cyn’s breathing comes in short bursts. “She wouldn’t leave without telling me where she’s going.”

“Start calling her friends,” I say.

Cyn speed dials them, one after another. After she’s gone through all of them, panic has set into her eyes.

“What about Fay?” I ask.

Cyn calls her and puts the phone on speaker.

“Have you tried Aedan?” Fay asks, her voice strained with concern. “He seems to like her, and he left the filming right after we shot today.”

“I don’t have his number,” Cyn says.

“I have it,” Fay says and rattles off some number. How the hell does she have his number?

Cyn calls, but there’s no answer, and we’re at a loss what to do next.





Chapter Willa


My cell phone is dead because the battery died hours ago. I was so flustered when Aedan asked me to dinner at some fancy Italian restaurant that I forgot to charge it when I got home from school. He came by my school, picked me up, and asked me then.

Most of my good clothes were destroyed, so I borrowed one of Cyn’s flirty, snug-fitting designer dresses and shoes that I can barely walk in. Heels hurt. I don’t know how she wears them.

“You look beautiful,” Aedan says, his eyes never leaving the dress and then my face.

Wearing dress pants and a pressed shirt, he takes my hand. He’s let his beard grow out for the last two days, and it’s neatly trimmed. It’s painfully hot. If he doesn’t help me along, I’d melt onto the sidewalk. He’s so different from the drunken stupor I found him in.

I can’t stop thinking about him. Instead of listening to my chem teacher this morning, I actually doodled his name in my notebook. It’s so juvenile, but Cyn got her not so Prince Charming Shane, and I can only hope for mine.

Aedan’s cute, and I love that sexy accent. Every time he opens his mouth and speaks, I melt and would follow him around like a lost puppy. I feel dopey next to him, too young, and definitely not the smart girl I am. He’ll never think of me as anything but a little girl.

And once he takes my virginity, which my disloyal body would gladly give him, he’ll dump me. That’s what happened to Fay. Cyn dumped Trevor after losing hers and left him out in the middle of nowhere. We got a hearty laugh out of that.

I work hard at staying upright in these shoes. I don’t know how to act sexy to get a man. I’ve never really had a boyfriend. Will our relationship even get that far?

I should be worried about losing our reality TV series contract. If they catch us, we could lose it, but I don’t want to lose this chance. Cyn almost lost Shane, and he’s the best. Aedan and I both love film, he loves his sister, and he’s Irish. I hope I’m not just infatuated, and Aedan could be my Shane.

Aedan opens the door to the restaurant, his hand resting on the small of my back. It’s such an intimate gesture that I want to curl into it and dissolve.

We’re seated in our own private cove next to a blazing fireplace and the air conditioning blowing. It’s amazingly romantic. Could he really like me? I know how guys have let my sisters down, especially Cyn. Her husband cheated on her with a man. I can’t help but think I will never get my happy ending. I don’t want to be taken for granted, and I’ve met plenty of guys like that.

“Willa, yer look amazing.” He nuzzles into my neck, and now I understand how my sister fell for Shane. She said he lit up the cold nights in Alaska like fireworks.

“So was I an arse the first time we met?”

He was adorable and a little scary, but now that I know he was pissed over Dallas treating his younger sister so poorly. It’s sweet. “Yes and no. You were kind of cute.”

His rough hands work underneath my long hair to clasp my neck and pull my lips to his. He’s so affectionate, and I completely love it. His tongue dips into my mouth, and I’d love to make out with him, but we’re in a restaurant.

A fire blazes up my neck, but I don’t stop kissing him.

His breath dances on my cheek while he says into my neck, “Kind of cute? I’ve lost my skills as a man.”

The waiter stops by and clears his throat. The blush burns my cheeks as I break away from him, casting my eyes down.

Aedan orders sea bass in a red pepper cream sauce for me and a bottle of red wine for us. I feel like I’m sitting on a cloud. His hand rests behind my back while we eat.

“How’s Caitlin doing?” I ask.

“She works hard in school, but she misses Ma and she wants a family. That’s why I came here.”

“Do you miss Ireland?” I don’t want him to return home.

“Yes. I miss drinking with the boys after work, morning walks in the countryside, and the laid back life.”

“Will you go back?” Please tell me you won’t.

“Caitlin isn’t, so I won’t. Besides, I have this beautiful lass who likes to kiss me and can’t seem to stop.”

I can’t help it. My cheeks hurt from smiling too much. “You kissed me.”

He grins and kisses my neck. He’s smooth, maybe too smooth. “Don’t be making up tales.”