“I can’t let anything serious happen between us. You’ll only be disappointed,” I reiterate softly.
To my surprise, she tilts her head toward mine again.
“Cas…”
But she kisses my cheek, then after a moment, kisses the other.
“Is this okay?” she whispers against my skin, sending pure desire trembling through my body.
“It’s the principle of
She kisses the corner of my mouth. “What about this?”
“Cas,” I groan. “Enough.”
“You want me to stop?” She pulls me away, but my hand doesn’t let her move too far.
“I want you…”
That’s all I can get out. I bury my head in her shoulder, my senses rejoicing in her scent, her touch.
“I’m so intoxicated by you,” I whisper. “If I start…I don’t think I can stop.”
A hand tangles itself in my hair, pulling gently, soothingly. At the touch, I can feel every muscle in my body relaxing.
“Why not?”
I scrunch my eyes closed. “This isn’t a life you want, Cas.”
She’s silent for a moment. Her fingers continue combing through my hair. “Then what do we do?”
We.The word reverberates through my body like a siren’s song.
“Because I can’t sleep in that room knowing you’re just down the hall. I can’t pretend there’s nothing going on here. I’ve been going insane all week wondering if I dreamed this whole thing up.”
I pull away, looking straight into those deep hazel eyes.
But all I see is my own fear reflecting back at me.
Just becausethiscould so easily turn out to be the worst mistake of my life, it doesn’t mean it has to be hers.
I look away, pulling on a mask of an easy smirk. “It’s just physical,Angioletta.It will pass.”
“Will it?” she whispers back defiantly.
She glances at my lips again. All it would take would be for me to lean forward and close those few inches.
But a kiss from her will surely unravel every last inch of my resolve to protect her. Not from herself this time, but fromme.
I offer her a crooked smile. “Would you like me to prove it?”
My cock hardens at her dilated pupils.
It’s nothing personal.I scream at myself like a mantra over and over again.It’s just physical.
My fingers tighten in the back of her hair, and I pull her away.
“Ah!” she cries as her head tilts back. Revealing the perfect expanse of her neck to my mouth.
