Cain

She scoffed and rolled her eyes with a smirk on her face. "What is with you and the compliments tonight? You're just trying to make me feel better aren't you? No guy likes the strong, intelligent, independent, and whatever else you said woman. They want an agreeable subservient woman that will cater to their every desire." She raised an eyebrow at him as if to challenge him to disagree with her.

She took a bite of her ice cream while she considered what he said. "So that isn't the type of woman you are looking for? I wouldn't suggest that you go out on a date with Miss Delanje then. I'm pretty sure that woman was born submissive." She took another bite. This ice cream was so good she could goffle it down but she was trying to be polite. "I'm not sure who's dating who but if steer clear of Trish too. Something tells me she bats for your team."

She pointed her spoon at him. "I'm just making conversation." She took another bite, the spoonfuls getting larger as she went. "What do you do that would have a woman trying to keep up with you? Are you an adventurous person? Cuz if you are, you're in the wrong line of business."

"Well I could do that." She giggled. She really wasn't above telling people how it was in the blunt and honest form. "I've never really travelled. A little bit around Kansas but that's it. Ahmed actually got to go to New York City with dad once. Business trip. He told me it was no place for a girl and left me here with a sitter. I was eight but I still would have liked to see the Big Apple." She started stirring her ice cream into soup.

She smiled at him. "That's sweet of you to think so but I'll be under my father's thumb until I'm married." She looked down at her soup. "I'm sorry. The conversation just keeps going back to him. I swear I'm not trying to have a pity party. What about you? Do you have a good relationship with your parents?"

"Well that's good. The closeness not the conceiving part. It's nice to have siblings though. Someone to watch your back. But I guess you had that with Terryn right? Sometimes close friends can be just as good as blood." There really was something so incredibly comfortable about him. She liked talking to him and touching him and thinking about him touching her in all the right places. She wanted to feel his lips on her. Wow! She really couldn't control her brain right now. What was wrong with her?

"Annie? Oh that's cute. Yeah Ahmed has been my best friend for a long time. I'm trying to make new friends but it's difficult because I'm opinionated and I don't know when to shut my mouth. I've made a couple."

His scent was driving her insane. He smelled like the woods on a warm summer day. She couldn't stop breathing him in. Damn this caffeine high! Her eyes were tingling so she looked down at her bowl really quick. That usually meant they were going amber.