AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“Hey, I’m here. You can?—”
“Luke.” I stare into those beautiful eyes, and finally, fucking finally, I just say what I’ve been thinking. “I want you. Desperately. I have since the moment I saw you. I realize how we got here is…less than typical, but there it is. I can’t pretend anymore. I don’t want to. Please, please be with me. I can’t turn away from the one thing that feels right in all this chaos.”
His eyes are blown wide, and Luke’s grip on my arms grows tighter.
For a second, we just hang there in the in-between, not where we were and not quite yet where I want us to go.
“Clara, I…” He closes his eyes, sucking in a pained breath. “Fucking hell, I want you, but are you sure? Really?”
I take a moment to just look at him, breathing deeply through my nose before exhaling long and hard.
“Yes.”
And then I kiss him.
Chapter 22
Luke
One minute, I’m working on a new timeline for a pain in the ass client who wants to move their launch up three months, and the next, Clara is kissing me.
I’m absolutely not complaining, but I’m not sure how we got here.
It’s clear she’s spooked about something that happened at the hospital, but she’s also damn articulate.
She poured her heart out so well I’m having a hard time trying to stop her from doing what I think she’s trying to do.
I’m not enough of an asshole to be okay with sex under duress, but Clara seems really damn sure of herself right now, and the way her tongue slides across my own has me instantly hard.
Pulling back just a moment, I take her face in my hands, forcing her to look at me again.
“All right, doc.” I sigh. “I hope you know how hard this is, but I’m just going to ask one more time. To be totally certain. You want to sleep together?”
Her beautiful green eyes are already hazy with lust, and she nips at my lip as she answers.
“Yes. I really fucking do. And that’s a first for me.”
My brain comes to a screeching halt, and I slide out of my chair. “Wait, wait, wait.”
Walking Clara over to the couch, I kneel in front of her like I did the other night, and to think straight, I have to fight against the images of her perfect fucking tits.
As I look up at her, Clara’s cheeks are getting pinker by the second, and I can see she realizes what she just said.
“A first for you?” I cock a brow, needing to close my eyes to steady myself.
“Um, yeah.” I flick my eyes back up at her, and Clara's delicious lips are all puffy from kissing. “I’ve never…I’m a virgin. I never wanted to before, well, before you.”
Words cannot describe the incredible array of thoughts and emotions that swirl through my head as I process the fact that Clara, the sexiest damn woman I’ve ever seen, is a fucking virgin.
“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
The words come out before I can stop them, and Clara frowns.
“No, not like that.” I shake my head, reaching up to plant a quick kiss on her lips. “I’m just shocked that someone hasn’t gotten you to do it before. I mean, look at you. Who wouldn’t want to lose themselves to all this?”
A slow smile spreads across her lips. “It’s not that people haven’t tried, Luke. I just didn’t let them. Didn’t want it. I do now. With you.”
My heart is ready to pound itself right out of my chest.
