Roxanne's Redemption (13 page)

“
That
’s
Kira Wellington,” Adrian
answered.

“You mean
the
pop star.”

“That’s the
one.”

“How do you know that
she
’s not a look alike?” Sebastian asked.

“
A fellow celebrity
never
mistake
s
another for someone else.”

Sebastian, Joshua and Nick snorted at that.

“Let’s see if they’ll join us,” Nick said
.

Sebastian could tell
Nick
was excited to see if he could charm the
panties off the pop star.
He just
nodded as he got up.

Chapter T
hirteen

“Either I'm
so
drunk th
at I'm imagining things or
a hot hunk
is really
coming our way,” Kira said
.

Roxanne looked up
.
H
er
eyes widen
ed
when she saw Sebastian walking toward their table
.
What was he doing here? Did he follow her here?
Sh
e
hoped he wasn’t
picking up Ashley’s stalking habits.

“Sebastian, what are you doing here?” Roxanne asked as soon as her
shock
e
d
brain cleared somewhat.

“My brothers
, Nick and I
come here every Friday night. What about you?”

She
opened her mouth to answer
, but Lexi
replied first.
“Aren't you going to introduce us
?
”
S
he winked at Kira who giggled in return.

Roxanne rolled her eyes. “Sebastian, these are my friends. Lexi, she just demanded that I introduce them. Kira, she just giggled like a teenager
with a crush
. Ava, she’s the one looking at you like you're
a prime piece of steak
.”

Kira giggled
, Lexi snickered and Ava snorted. “Everyone
,
this is my boss
,
Sebastian Ferguson.”

S
he
wondered why Lexi’s eyes widen
ed
after the introduction
and
made a note
to
ask her about
it
later.

“Nice to meet you
,
ladies
.
Would
you
like to join
us for a drink?”

Roxanne wanted to say yes,
because she missed him
but she was here with her friends and she
was
going to stay with them no matter how much she yearned to go with
Sebastian
. She
watched her friends
’
face
s
carefully. Ava looked like she was battling with herself;
Lexi and Kira
were
watching
Ava
, smiling once in a while at her torn expression
.

It
looked like Ava had
decided
, for
her expression didn't look so torn anymore. “Who’s over there with you?” she asked.

“My brothers Joshua and Adrian
,
and our friend
Nick,
”
he answered.

Ava looked over in the direction of the table Sebastian nodded at and scowled. “We’ll think about it and if we decide to come then we will, if not we’ll remain
here
,” she said innocently.

What was she thinking? From the expression on Ava’s face
,
Roxanne figured that she was going to do something that w
ould
get her in
to
troub
le. She watched Sebastian nod
then
walked
away
with a smile in her direction
.
Damn
if her heart didn't flip. This was
going
from bad to
worse
,
and
she didn't know what to do abou
t it
. She returned her attention back to her friends
.

“So what do we do?” Lexi asked.

“I
vote for
join
ing
them,” Ava said.

Roxanne eyed her suspiciously. “What are you up to
,
Ava?”

Ava turned to look at her with an innocent expression. “What do you mean?”

“You know what I mean.”

Ava
smiled innocently
before answering.
“
Well
, I was going to say hello to my boss. Is there something wrong with that?”

Roxanne felt like strangling her, but gave up with a
laugh
when she thought how fun it
w
ould be if Ava’s plans for harassing her boss backfired.

“All right, we’ll go
,
but I'm not staying for more than
fifteen
minutes,” Lexi said sternly but
she smiled widely as
her eyes
twinkled
with amusement.

Kira nodded at her bodyguard
who
followed a few feet behind them as they went over to Sebastian’s
table
.

* * * *

“Are you sure they’ll come?” Joshua asked
as he continued to
scowl at the table were Roxanne and her friends still sat.

“You're whipped,” Nick said
,
snickering
as he too watched the table.

Adrian snickered. “Here they come now
.”

As soon as he had returned to his table Nick had suggested t
hat they get some extra chairs,
instead he’d told them
to
just move to a
larger
table
.
They
did after he
explained
that Roxanne and her friends would probably be more comfortable if they
weren’t
being sandwich
ed
by
four
strange men. Joshua had scowl
ed
and grumbled that he was Ava’s boss so he wasn’t a stranger.
Nick,
Adrian and Sebastian had laughed at
him
, but
that only made
him
scowl
harder.

* * * *

Sebastian pulled into Roxanne’s driveway and turned off the ignition.
He didn't like putting his hands where
they
didn't belong but he couldn’t stay outside for the remainder of the night with Roxanne asleep
in the car next to him.
S
he would never forgive
him
in the morning.
Sighing with relief when he finally found her keys, Sebastian went around the passenger side and lift
ed
her out.

Climbing the stairs
with Roxanne in his arms was hell. It was bad enough that since seeing
Roxanne
at the club
he’d had a permanent
erection
, but now it was worse with her ass rubbing against it with every step he took and her mouth position
ed
right over his pulse at his neck
,
stirr
ing
his desire higher every time she exhaled on it.

Immediately after entering her room, Sebastian
placed her on the bed and then
took
off her shoes
.
H
e wasn’t a saint but while
un
dressing her Sebastian tried not to look
,
more for his benefit than hers
.
H
e wasn’t made from stone and there was only so much he could handle for one night.
He picked her up again and pulled down the sheet before setting her down again and cover
ing
her before leaving the room.

He chuckled
.
Inviting Roxanne and her
friends
to join him and the others
tonight
was fun and entertain
ing
.
Out of the four of them
,
Ava was the one that
kept them in
line
like a mother
would do
with
her
children
. Roxanne was shy
while
Kira was more outgoing. Lexi talked to them but even
an obtuse
person could tell that she was distant.
He had wondered
briefly
if it was because they were strangers to
her, before
pushing the thought away
.

Ava went out of her way to
annoy
Joshua, which was fine with him
.
Of
all of his brothers
, Joshua was
the
hard
est
to
irritate
, but Ava did an excellent job.

Nick had
given Kira
his come-home-and-strip-for-me smile
. She’d
sn
o
r
t
ed and shook her head at him. The look on
his
face
afterward
was
so
comical the whole table laugh
ed
. Adrian wouldn’t stop looking at Kira, but he didn't try to have a conversation with her either.

They
all talked and laughed until around eleven-thirty when Lexi announce
d
that she had to get home and
drop
Ava and Roxanne
off on the way
.
H
e volunteer
ed
to take Roxanne home after he dropped Nick, Joshua and Adrian off. He asked about Kira,
but she
told him her bodyguard
drove
her
so
s
he
was fine
.
Roxanne and her friends hugged
each other
and
waved goodbye
to
everyone
else.
Then they
watched
until Lexi’s car disappeared out of
sight
.

Once he
found a
guest room, he stripped out of his clothes and went to the bathroom
for
a cold shower. He felt guilty wanting her now that she was drunk and out cold, but it wasn’t something he could help
.
J
ust hearing her
voice
made
him
hard
.

After his quick shower, he
brushed his teeth with
a new
toothbrush he found
. Back in the
bed
room he pulled the covers down
and
climbed into bed
.

* * * *

Roxanne woke up at about
six
in the morning
.
H
er head felt like
someone
had taken
a baseball bat
and hit her
with
it
repeatedly
. What the hell happened last night? She couldn’t remember
any
thing after
they’d
gone
over to sit with Sebastian
last night.

How much had she
drunk
?

She looked around and sure enough, she was in her bedroom. How had she got here? She shook her head and wince
d;
it was the wrong thing to do.