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“Any other crimes you committed as a teenager? We could compare notes.”
I pretended to think about it. “Well, I never stole a cab.”
* * *
After enjoyingthe night filled with banter and good food, I was exhausted. But I didn’t want the night to end. I had never had so much fun in my life, but I also knew this was dangerous territory for me. I couldn’t let anything happen between us, no matter how attracted to him I was. It was best if I left and never saw him again.
I stifled a yawn, still tired from the trip out here. “I’m sorry. I’m so tired.”
“It’s fine. Let me walk you back to your place.”
“That’s really not necessary,” I said as I stood, shivering slightly at the cooling breeze.
“I insist. I can’t let you walk back to your place all alone in the dark.”
“Well, I walked here in the dark.”
He looked at me funny, shaking his head. “You’re an odd woman.”
“In what way?”
We headed out and started the walk back to my place, despite telling him I didn’t need him to walk me back.
“I’ve never known a woman that was willing to walk in the dark by herself.”
“I like having the time to myself.”
“So you can fork yards?”
“Among other things.”
We walked in peace, listening to the ocean lapping on the shore. I felt a strong urge to reach out and grip his hand, but I resisted and folded my hands over my chest as we walked. A shiver ran through me, yet it had nothing to do with the cool breeze, but how attracted I was to this man.
“Are you cold?”
“Just a little,” I lied. “It feels good.”
God, did it feel good. I couldn’t remember the last time I was so attracted to a man that I felt a heat wave just standing beside him. He hadn’t even touched me and I could already feel the way his hand would warm my body.
“I—”
“We—” I started at the same time as him, laughing at how weird the situation was. “Go ahead. What were you going to say?”
“I was going to say I really enjoyed tonight.”
“Me too. Way more than I should have,” I breathed out.
He let out a humorless laugh. “Yeah, you can say that again.”
Oh, this was bad. Was he married too? Or maybe engaged? Crap, if it was one-sided, it would be easy enough to just walk away and pretend he didn’t exist for the rest of the trip. But if he felt even half of what I was feeling, we were in serious trouble.
“The problem is, I like you too much,” he continued. “The banter is good.”
“Right,” I nodded. “So, we should find more mundane things to talk about.”
“Like the weather,” he added.
“Precisely. I could comment on the sound of the ocean.”
