"I didn't say it was innocent. I said you spent a fair amount of time looking at my lips, which you did." Alex has a damned good memory about this, Richard. She'll fight you on it without a single second thought. "But as for having sex outside? Seriously?" The arch of her brow is so high at the moment it might as well have been in her hairline. "Around all of my friends? Jeez, Richard, I may have tried to seduce you at your office but there's definitely limits on things like a public park in broad daylight when there's loads of people I know and wanted to introduce you to around!"

A beat and she added, "besides, you hadn't even kissed me properly on the lips yet and the only touching you were doing was on my side or my hands. Or kissing my hair or my neck, I guess. Seducing you then was going to be impossible." A beat and a smile before she leaned over and kissed him. "Even for me."