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I need to see you.
Can you come over? I’m at my father's house. Message me when you are here and I’ll come out.
I was out the door, calling my driver before I could convince myself I was a fool.
The drive through the city took half the time with a few back roads and since mt driver was born and raised here he knew all the shortcuts.
Fifteen, maybe twenty minutes later I punched in a message for Cherry.
I’m here, sweetheart.
When I saw her round the side of the house, my mouth went dry and my heart rate was soaring. I wanted to run to her, take her in my arms and then pull her into my car and drive off. Never look back.
I stepped from the car and immediately saw she had a somber expression.
“Cherry,” I drew out.
“Grayson.” She stopped short of me by a couple of feet. A space that I found unacceptable. But I gave her the space she wanted and shoved my hands in my pockets.
“You needed me. I’m here. What’s wrong?”
“Everything and nothing all at once,” she began, tears starting to wet those pretty black lashes.
I pulled her into my arms and tucked her beneath my chin.
“I’m here—there’s no need for tears, sweetheart.”
She pulled from my arms and when I looked down into her face, I wanted to murder her father for tearing us apart.
“I’m glad my father found us the way he did.”
My heart lurched at what she was implying. “What?” Confusion wrinkled my brow.
Her light touch slipped from where her hand rested on my chest, and she stood away from me. Again.
Worry lined etched across her forehead and the pretty way she had her makeup made her look beautiful and miserable all at once. Made my cock hard and my heart ache for her.
“It made me stop and think,” she started slowly. “We moved too fast. Way too fast, Grayson, and I never meant to sleep with you that first night. You know the night we went home together. You were just so perfect, and I was all over that. And then I walked into your office and I…”
I held back a chuckle at the beautiful tinge of pink on her cheeks talking about our spontaneous one-night stand.
“Shh, baby, you’re not making sense. Slow down.”
“I didn’t know what I wanted. Not then at least.”
I tucked my hands back into my pockets, sensing she needed to get whatever she had on her chest out. I sank back against my car and took in the pretty flutter of her dress in the summer breeze. The way sunshine played in the chestnut hair cascading down her back in curls.
Then it hit me.
The party she mentioned. There were probably tens of guests tucked away behind the tall fence shielding us away from their prying eyes. Whatever she had to say must be important for her to ask me over on a day like this.
She was going to leave me. The last three weeks still held a possibility for us even through all my growling, but now it was all over.
“Grayson, I know what I want.”
“So do I and before you say anything, hear me out.”
I took her hands into mine. I placed tender kisses on each knuckle and didn’t dare look into her eyes until I could speak without all the emotion in me clogging my throat and rushing to get out all at once.
