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“So are you gonna tell me?”
She hauled in a deep breath and sighed. “I saw the way you smiled at Lorena. It didn’t feel very good.”
“That is a problem.”
Her eyes went wide, his answer clearly not the one she was expecting. “It is?”
“Yes. You see, I don’t want to ever hurt you, but I may smile at other people. I’m a happy guy, and I smile a lot. But I can’t look at another woman the way I look at you.” As he spoke, he leaned across the console. When her focus shifted to his lips, his heart leapt in satisfaction. “It’s not possible. There is no other woman I want the way I want you. So this look? The one that is begging for your smile in return? The one that keeps dropping to your lips because I miss how good they taste? That look is all yours.” He raised one hand toward her cheek, needing to touch her, connect with her. He stopped just shy of her soft skin, not wanting to sully her with his dirty hands. He dropped his hand and hesitated, a breath from touching her lips with his own. “I’ve missed you. May I?”
Waiting for her to decide, to close the distance, to choose him back, nearly killed him, but it was worth every tortured second when she nodded. She leaned into the kiss, as eager as he was.
From the moment their lips touched, all notion of the outside world disappeared. His existence narrowed to the one spot where his body was touching hers. The power, the heat, the intensity of her kiss blew all of his good intentions away, their truce incinerated.
He lost himself in her. Tongues tangled, and he was thoroughly caught in her web. Moreover, he was content to let her wrap him up nice and tight and feast away.
When she jerked back from the kiss, his first instinct was to pursue and resume. Her hand against his lips was the only thing that stopped him. That he didn’t exactly remember where they were or what they were supposed to be doing didn’t alarm him as much as it probably should have. His brain was still struggling to engage through the warm haze of arousal.
“We’re in my car, parked at a client’s house. We can’t do this here.”
“Hmm, so we can do this somewhere else?”
“Now is not the time for semantics.” She tried to start the car multiple times, her nerves making her jittery enough to stall out. She pulled back behind her defenses and away from the house. “We need to get lunch and get back. I can’t afford to get distracted.” Her eyes trained on the road and her hands gripping the wheel, she drove them to her favorite take-out burger joint in silence.
Damn. Hadn’t she enjoyed that as much as he had? And how the hell was she able to find words like “semantics” after a kiss like that? What did that even mean? He sat back in the passenger seat, trying to navigate the right path but lacking the map of her mind.
Chapter 8
How could a cheeseburger be awkward?
She’d eaten a million of them in her lifetime. She loved the special magic of the thick, juicy meat topped with fresh lettuce, tomato, onion, melty cheese and special sauce that her favorite chain was famous for. But now that she was eating one in front of the man who’d kissed her like he meant it, it felt completely weird. Was the juice dribbling down her chin? Was he judging how many fries she ate? Holy hell, if she kept this up, kissing Adrian would be the best diet she’d ever tried. She set down her food and pushed the tray away. Apparently, embarrassment killed her ability to eat and converse like the grown-ass woman she was.
She sat and stared at her half-eaten food, unable to swallow past the lump in her throat. He’d kissed her, and she’d freaked out when she’d started to lose control.Why did I break the truce? Where is my self-control?And what if someone on-site saw the kiss? Then she’d have to explain everything to everybody even though she didn’t have a clue what anything was, because that was just how her family worked! Sometimes working with the people she loved was a real pain in the ass. She couldn’t believe she’d caved to temptation, but even now, with Adrian covered from head to toe in dirt and grime, his hands and face hastily scrubbed clean, she wanted to climb in his lap and let him kiss her until her brain quit this incessant worrying.
“Is your food okay?”
Startled from her rapidly spiraling thoughts, she answered on the defensive.
“Of course. Why?”
“You’re not eating it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you turn down a cheeseburger.”
Heat flashed to her cheeks, and not the good kind. Of course, he’d never seen the fat chick turn down food. That lump in her throat grew as shame joined the party and threatened to choke her.
“Whatever you’re thinking to put that look on your face, stop. All I meant is I know you like In-N-Out, so if you’re not enjoying it then it must be because of what happened in the car.”
“What did happen in the car?”
“You were sad because I joked with another woman. I speak to women every day, but I didn’t want you to be sad. I missed you and your smile. So I kissed you to bring it back. I thought you were enjoying it, too, until you weren’t. What did you think happened in the car?”
Though she felt ten times a fool, Sofia gave him an honest answer. “I think you took pity on me because I got all twisted up and kissed me to make me feel better. But you did it in front of an entire work site of our employees.”
“So it would be better if I kiss you while we’re alone?”
“Yes. No. Don’t twist my words.”
Sofia shook her head with an exasperated sigh. He took her chin between his fingers and waited for her to look him in the eye.
“I’m not. I’m trying to understand. You think I took pity on you, but you’re the one ashamed to be seen kissing me. How does that work?” She could hear the annoyance creeping into his voice.
