11. Elle
The night club hummed with excitement, music blared from speakers situated all around the huge space, making sure no one had any chance of having a proper conversation. Dani and I arrived over an hour ago, we went to the restaurant first, it is connected to the club and we had a nice meal and several cocktails each. It had been a heavy afternoon of legal papers, legal mumbo jumbo enough to make my head spin. I lost track of how many times I signed my name by the end of the meeting with my solicitor. By the time that was all over I was beyond ready to get something to eat but more importantly something to drink.
Lots of drinks.
After leaving the restaurant we decided to try out the dance floor at the club and drink some more. And drink I did. I was halfway through my sixth fancy drink when Dani chucked in the towel and took herself back to our hotel to get some sleep. Not ready to give up at that stage, I stayed back hoping to get in some more dancing, promising Dani I would be okay and that I would behave.
Now I wished I had left with Dani.
“You look bored.” A deep voice said from behind me, startling the shit out of me. Spinning around on the bar stool I came face to face with what could only be described as the most perfect male specimen. Six feet maybe an inch or two taller, broad shoulders and chest covered by a dark emerald, green button up shirt, shirt sleeves rolled up showing off powerful forearms. He had a tattoo on one arm, but it was obscured by his fold arms in front of him, so I couldn’t make out what it exactly was.
The phrase tall, dark, and handsome came to mind as I slowly perused the man in front of me from head to toe and back up again. The tall stranger had a severe military type haircut, but somehow it suited him. What hair he did have appeared to be a dark blonde, green eyes, the greenest I’d ever seen. They were in a word …. mesmerising.
His chin and cheeks had a scattering of a five o’clock shadow but in no way did he look unkempt.
He was no Kelly Severide … he was better.
Taking a sip of my fruity concoction, I looked at the stranger through narrowed eyes.
“Do I really?” I drawled pretending to be bored by his question. I wasn’t but he didn’t have to know that.
Shaking his head, the stranger took a seat on a stool next to me, waving his hand at the bartender.
“Beer please, anything draught on tap please. And for —” he paused waiting for me to introduce myself and order myself a drink. It took me all of five seconds to make up my mind.
Holding out my hand to the handsome man, I gave him my best fake smile. “Elle, and I’ll have a grasshopper please.”
The second his hand engulfed mine, I knew that I had made a huge mistake. Electricity shot up my arm so powerfully, I nearly fell off my seat. The stranger seemed to be having the same issue because all he could do for a good twenty seconds was look at our joined hands before coming back down to reality.
“Judd,” he croaked, nodding at me, letting my hand go but he seemed reluctant to do so.
Huge, massive trouble.
Quietly as possible, I picked up my clothes strewn all over the hotel room in the hope not to wake the man sound asleep in the king size bed.
The king size bed I just spent the night in having the best sex of my life with a man I only knew his first name.
Judd.
What I was certain of though was the man knew how to please and pleasure a lady. Boy oh boy did he know. The pleasant ache between my thighs was enough proof of that.
Gathering my heels, I didn’t bother putting them on in case they made noise on the tiled floors out in the living area of the suite.
As much as I was deliriously sexually satisfied, I was also quite ashamed of my loose behaviour. Hells bells, the ink was barely dry on the divorce papers and here I was hooking up with a complete stranger and had mind blowing sex … several times and didn’t even exchange last names with him.
What kind of person did that make me?
Quickly sweeping my eyes over the bedroom, I made sure I left nothing that could come back and bite me in the butt. Satisfied I had all my belongs I came with, I quietly crept out of the bedroom down the hall and out the hotel door, only letting out a breath when the door closed quietly behind me the lock snicking into place.
“Phew, that was … insane.” I mumbled out loud, still not believing I could ever act so wantonly in bed with a complete stranger. Hell, I never did anything I did the night before with Jake while we were dating or married.
Knowing that Dani would most likely know I didn’t spend the night in our adjoined room, I hurried down the carpeted hall to the elevator bays. Ready to get back to my room, have a shower and rinse away all evidence of my first ever one-night stand.