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My chuckle was low, rumbling through my chest. I ran my thumb along her jaw as she stared up at me. I needed more. “What else?”
“You’re very attractive. You have a beautiful face. With the cheekbones and the lips. But your eyes.” She seemed to melt into my body. I gathered her closer, absorbing every second of having her inhibitions down. “I could feel them on me all night.”
Not just all night. All the time. For the last seven years, whenever she was in a room, I couldn’t help but look at her. She radiated light like no one I’d ever seen.
“Why do you do that?” She straightened again. Her mouth dipped at the corners. “Is it the scars?”
“No!” My answer was quick. I shouldn’t have, but I sat up too, so we were facing each other.
So our thighs bumped, and I could feel the warmth of her body. So I was staring straight into her eyes. I saw the desire in them. Both of us were going to wake up with regrets, but I’d fucking take them to have her close, even for a little while.
“I don’t see the scars, Sunflower.” I was making all kinds of bad decisions because instead of leaving it there, I closed the distance between us.
Grace gasped as I pressed my lips just below her left eye. “I see the freckle right here. And here.” I moved down, kissing a spot under her ear. She shivered. When I pulled back, her eyelids were half lowered.
“The one on your lip.” Her breath hit my hand as my thumb traced over it. “I’ve fantasized about it for years. When I look at your body, all I see is you. Your beauty. Your strength. Just you.”
The only sound in the car was our breathing as she stared at me. My eyes moved over her features, trying to figure out what she was feeling. Surprise? Disgust? Disbelief?
“You like me?” She blinked. I hated that it was a question. But keeping my distance was necessary; she’d run if she knew how intensely I felt for her. How long I’d harbored these feelings. “Alessandra says you do.”
“Yeah, Sunflower.” I kissed her forehead, my lips pulling into a smile, before I moved back. “I like you.”
Her brows scrunched, and she sucked that bottom lip between her teeth again. “I don’t know if I like you. But I do want to kiss you.”
Now, I was the still one. The monster inside me screamed yes. But the good man I wanted to be told me no. I needed to be that man for Grace.
She wouldn’t remember this, but I would. And I’d cling to the memory of holding her soft body until the next time she let me touch her. But I wouldn’t kiss her. Take it further.
I’d wait. Even if it took a lifetime. A hundred lifetimes. I’d always find her and wait for her until she was ready.
But drunk Grace was good to go. She pressed on, moving her body closer to me. I felt her warm, full breasts brush my arm. A groan caught in my throat. “I thought you were going to kiss me earlier. But you didn’t.”
The disappointment in her voice twisted the knot in my chest. “I wanted to. Fuck, I did, but I didn’t know if you did.”
She stared at me for another moment. Those blue eyes flicked across my features. She seemed to make a decision. Her gaze hardened, and her breathing increased.
And then she was in my lap. Straddling me. Her hands on my neck and her face in mine. “I do.”
My entire brain shut down. Having her this close was toying with my self-control.
“Grace.” My fists clenched at my side. I tried to tilt my hips back so she wouldn’t feel my aching cock. I’d gone as hard as steel the instant her thick thighs landed on mine. “You’re drunk.”
“Maybe, but I know what I want.” Her fingers pressed into my neck. And god-fucking-damn it; she rolled her hips. Shoved that sweet cunt right on my cock.
Heat shot straight through me. The heat from her hot little pussy. It lit me on fire.
“You’re going to regret this.” My voice was practically a growl as I tried to hold on to that good version of myself. But she was making it damn hard.
“Let’s see.”
Then she crashed our mouths together. Her warm, soft lips pressed into mine. Moving sweetly along my skin.
Flames exploded in my veins. My knuckles turned white as I tightened my fists. But I fought it. I didn’t kiss her back. Because I wouldn’t hurt her.
Her eyes swirled with emotion as she pulled away. And I saw the pain I’d been trying to avoid causing. “This isn’t a good idea.”
“Don’t you want me?” Her voice wavered, and I watched the happiness bleeding from her.
