My stomach clenches and pulsates and I want nothing more than for that to happen. I’m usually self-conscious about people staring at my freckles but when he does it, I don’t mind. I like it, it makes me feel sexy, desired, wanted.
“I think we can arrange that.” My voice sounds breathy to my own ears.
His nostrils flare and his arm around my waist tightens. I can see the restraint hanging on by a thread. It makes me wonder what I have to do to get him to snap and lose control.
“Let’s get out of here” he says and it’s then that I realize we’re standing on the street. We speed walk back to the library parking lot. His car is the only one left in the lot. He quickly helps me inside before slamming the door and rounding the front of it and sliding behind the wheel.
I quickly rattle off directions to my house and we’re both silent on the drive over. My mind Is going a million miles a minute and based on the way his hand is clenched around the steering wheel, I would say his is too.
When we pull up outside of my building, he exits the car and helps me out without a word. His fingers lace through mine as I lead the way up the stairs to my floor. With shaky hands I unlock the door and step inside expecting him to follow me when he pauses in the doorway I look back in confusion.
“I don’t think I should come in tonight,” he says.
My eyebrows inch up my forehead. Did I read this situation wrong?
“But I thought…” I trail off unsure of what to say.
Liam scrubs a hand over his face. “Look, I like you a lot. I’ve never felt this connection, this energy with anyone else and I don’t want to screw it up by sleeping together too soon and if I come inside right now there’s nothing to stop me from doing all the things I want to do to you.”
“Oh. Okay” I swallow hard.
He stares into my eyes for a minute before cupping my face in one of his hands he lays a sweet kiss against my lips.
“Lock up behind me.”
“Okay.” I shut the door and turn the lock into place,
I wait until I hear his footsteps walking away before I slid down the floor onto my butt.
What have I gotten myself into?
Chapter 7
AVA
My beeping phone wakes me up the next the morning. Looking bleary eyed at the clock I see it’s almost 7:30, a half hour before I’m supposed to be up.
Grabbing the offending phone of the nightstand. I see a text from Liam. Instantly I’m wide awake.
LIAM: Hey beautiful.
My stomach clenches.
ME: Hey
LIAM: Did you get a good night’s sleep?
ME: Yes, what about you?
LIAM: Yeah, I slept really well.
ME: Are you a morning person?
LIAM: Yes ma’am
ME: I don’t know if we can be friends anymore.
LIAM: Number one: I take it you’re not a morning person. Number two: who said anything about us being friends?
Ouch, his word sting way more than I want them to. While I’m floundering for a response that doesn’t make me look like an idiot, the little bubbles appear at the bottom of the screen that tells me he’s typing.
LIAM: I don’t want to be your friend baby, I wanna be your lover.
A laugh burst out of me and this time I have no problem responding.
ME: Oh my god, has that line actually worked for you before?
LIAM: I’ve never tried it. What? Was it too cheesy?
ME: Uh yeah, that was pretty bad. Luckily, I seem to like cheesy jokes and lines.
LIAM: Oh yeah? Well there’s more where that came from. I’m going to be at Temptation tonight. Can you stop by and we can have dinner?
I put my phone down on the bed. Indecision wears heavy on me. I’ve been going back in forth trying to figure out if I should continue to pursue this.
On one hand he makes me feel things that I’ve never felt before. Not even with him. Just this simple text exchange had me grinning so hard, anticipating his responses before they came through.
On the other hand, I know that if I pursue something with this man and it doesn’t end well it would crush me. I’ve been through a lot already in such a short time, yet I have a feeling that getting my heart broken by Liam Trace would annihilate any other pain I’ve ever dealt with before in my life.
The thought is sobering.
Just then my bedroom door bangs open. A scream rises in my throat before I see that its Jayden and Lisa dressed for work.
My hand goes to my pounding heart. “God, you two scared the crap out of me! What are you doing here?”
Lisa raises an eyebrow ate me before holding up her key. “We have keys remember. Besides I wasn’t sure if you were up so we let ourselves in,” she says sitting down on the edge of my bed while Jayden plops down at the foot of it.
I reach over and pinch his arm. It’s mostly muscle but I’m still able to get a good pinch out of it.
“Ow! What the hell was that for?” he asks rubbing the spot I pinched him.
I glare at him. “That was for the way you acted toward Liam last night. What were you thinking?”
Sitting up and facing me Jayden says. “I was looking out for you! I had to feel him out and see what his intention were with you?”
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