He turned around, expecting to see Dana behind him.But she was nowhere to be seen.
“Where is Dana?”he asked the flight attendant, who was hovering close by.
“She’s left,” she said and pointed toward the door leading into the airport building.
Swearing, David stormed out, his gaze combing the crowd.Why the hell hadn’t she waited for him?And how was she getting to Hermanus?He never got around to asking her.
Just when he thought he’d missed her, he spotted the blonde with the long legs leaving the airport building.She’d put her hair up in a ponytail, but he’d know that walk, that sexy sway of the hips, anywhere.He sprinted and ducked, never taking his eyes off her swinging ponytail.
She was standing in front of a parking machine, opening her purse, when he finally caught up with her.
“Dana,” he called out, and she turned her head.
“Why didn’t you wait for me?”he asked, taking the parking ticket from her hand.
She made a grab for it, but he held on, taking out his own wallet.
“I want to leave and that’s my ticket—I’m paying for it!”she snapped, still tugging on the ticket.
He grabbed her hands in his empty one and pulled her closer while he pushed the ticket into the machine.
“I want to do this for you.”
Her eyes flashed.“I can pay for my own—”
“I know, but let me do this,” he insisted and waited until she’d stopped fidgeting.Then he pulled out some bills and pushed them into the slot of the machine.
Dana stood by silently, her whole body radiating her displeasure.
The machine spat out the parking ticket, and he handed it over to her.She grabbed it out of his hand, turned on her heels, and strode toward the elevator.He followed but took her bag.She glared at him, opened her mouth to say something, but four other people entered the elevator and she fell silent.
When the elevator stopped on the level for the second parking bay, she tried to take her bag, but he refused to let it go, and with a huff she walked out.
He followed, becoming a little bit irritated with the whole scene.What was it with this woman?Most women wouldn’t be offended if he offered to pay for something or if he tried to help them.In fact, paying for something was usually a sure way to get into their good books and into their beds, he’d learned.
She walked stiffly toward a small car that had obviously seen better days.
Dismayed, he stared at the car.Surely she wasn’t planning on traveling in this piece of tin all the way to Hermanus?
“Don’t you dare say a word about my car.Not all of us can afford the type of car you are used to,” she snapped and opened the trunk of the car.
He lifted the bag into the trunk and closed the lid.
She walked quickly past him to the driver’s door and opened it.
“Thank you for the plane ride, for paying for my parking ticket, for carrying my bag, although I would have been able to cope all on my own, like I have for the last ten years since I’ve been earning a salary.”Clearly miffed, she turned to get into the car.
Before she could move, he pinned her to the car.They stared at each other, both of them breathing hard.
“I was trying to help you,” he snarled.“Usually women like that.”
She narrowed her eyes and tried to break free from his hands.“I’m not most women.”
“I know.”He sighed, and just like that the irritation left his body.He slid his hands up her sides and he kissed her.
*
Dana opened hermouth to protest, but David slid his tongue through her lips, and she forgot why she’d been so angry with him.Their tongues met, and his teased hers while he moved his hands restlessly up and down her sides.
