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reticent.
This is my best friend in the world, Walsh Bennett.” Oh. Freaking. No.
Please don’t let me hurt him.
Cam’s girl.
Don’t even think about it. It’s never going to happen.
Not just anybody, and certainly not a nobody. Remember that, little girl,
Simply put, she had never met anyone like him. Self-assured, but not arrogant. Humble, but not wimpy. Appreciated the finer things, but didn’t seem to need them. Compassionate. Generous. Driven. She wanted to stop, but the list went on.
He knew it, but he had to physically restrain himself from snatching her away from Cam.
Sanity was a fugitive on the run from reason. Her mouth fell open. He wasted no time, plunging in to plunder, devouring her with unchecked hunger.
“Kerris.” His voice seemed to have fallen octaves, its deep timbre inspiring her to shudder. “Tell me to stop.”
Sanity made a belated reappearance.
“It’s an accident when cars collide.”
“When lips collide it’s a
kiss. That wasn’t an accident, and we need to...
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She’d never forget the feeling that exploded inside of her, his touch tripping an invisible wire only he had discovered.
No matter how good it felt, what happened could never happen again. Should never have happened at all.
“Yeah, Dad, some people marry for it. You wouldn’t know about that, though, would you?”
“I think you cheated on her. Guess that was just part of grabbing your dick and figuring it out.”
He was a good man.
contrasting against
“Well, given our history, I’d hate to embarrass you, but if you don’t remove your hand from my very upper thigh, I will.”
“There’s a line of guys waiting for you, Sof. Don’t wait on me.”
“A narcissistic, mercenary douche bag.”
“Let’s think about this. You pretty much hit the life lottery, Walsh. Looks, wealth, a great family—minus your dad, of course, who’s practically certifiable. Most people would choose your life. Cam got snake eyes. Crappy childhood. Bitch of a mother. Abuse. Shuffled from home to home. No family.”
We enable, protect, and coddle him to make up for something that won’t ever change—his past.
She was in love with a real asshole.
Had she thought…?
“Is it simple that I can’t stop thinking about you? About the kiss in that hospital room?”
“About how you taste? How you feel? Is that simple, Kerris?”
“Is it simple that I’m in love with you?” He couldn’t hold it back, even with the guilt eating him. To be this
close to her again after so long was rapture and torture. “’Cause it feels pretty complicated to me.”
“You won’t make me believe you feel for Cam what you feel with me.”
He might spread her out on that spotless counter and possess her completely, Cam and the rest of the world be damned.
“Stop lying to me.”
“Maybe you should have,” Walsh said, as shocked to hear the words aloud as his father obviously was.
“I said maybe you should have taken care of her.”
She groaned, pulling his top lip between
“Oh, my God, you really do love her.” Astonishment swept away the anger on Jo’s face.
“Kerris, the way my son looks at you is like—” Kristeene started, briefly hesitating. “It’s like a starved man. It’s like he can’t bring himself to look at anything else in the room.”
