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“It can mean whatever I want, because …”
“…Elyse.” he cut her off, using her name like a blade slashing her heart again. “Woman, I didn’t come to argue with you. I came to ask you one damn question. Answer one fucking question and then I’m out of here and you won’t have to deal with me again.
Why was she entertaining him? Her mind didn’t know but her stupid heart crossed its fingers and wished. Wishing harder than a child hoping for the right present before they tore the wrapping paper off. Her pulse between her thighs also wanted to know what his question was. Leaving her mind out-voted, again. She crossed her arms. “Fine, what is it? What could you possibly have to ask me now?”
His spine lengthened. Standing taller than an oak tree, and just as implacable. “Was it a fantasy?”
The heat swarmed and settled in her face. She swallowed hard, her tongue thick in her mouth. “A fantasy?”
His hazel brown eyes seized hers. Allowing no escape. Sealing off every exit while he waited for her to ‘fess up. He should work for a spy agency. He would be a master interrogator. “A fantasy. You wanted the rough tough biker to sex you up. Were you living your fantasy?”
Elyse ran a hand up to her neck. Shit, how to answer. She didn’t want to gift him the truth. But she wasn’t going to lie. She nodded. His eyes flared and then burned out. The dull eyes shading themselves under his brow before he nodded.
“That’s it then. Get your stuff and let’s go. I’ll walk you out.”
Her mouth dropped open. “Oh hell no. I know you didn’t come here to demand answers to your questions and then plan to walk out like I don’t have any.”
His eyes narrowed. “Fair enough. Go ahead…”
She scrubbed the nape of her neck across her buzz cut. She really needed to grow her hair long again, because he made her want to rip it out. “You were a fantasy. Why was that so wrong? You came in here and I was attracted to you…”
“…To me or to this?” He slammed his hand against his leather jacket. His lips curling up. “I’ve been there done that with a hundred girls.” His voice ground out harder when she gulped. “Yes, a hundred or damn more. I thought you were different. I thought you saw what they didn’t. I spilled my guts to you in this damn class. You said you saw it. Saw me. But all you saw was this.”
“Is that what this is about? You think I don’t see you? Don’t know who you are? You think I follow all my students to their jobs and damn near assault them? It wasyou. Dammit. It. Was. You. You are the fantasy. My fantasy. And if you’d been a baker, I’d have fantasied about you in an apron holding a rolling pin. If you’d been a doctor, I would have wanted to lay down on your table with my legs in your stirrups. If you’d been a police officer, I would have asked to be arrested. It wouldn’t have mattered. Becauseyouwere the fantasy. Every one. Every time. You were what I wanted.” Maybe his eyes widened but she wasn’t real sure because he was a blur. Which was a damn pain since she was wearing her contacts.
“You wanted me?”
“What the fuck? Didn’t you get that when I was shouting it out with you inside me? What else did I have to do? I fell in love, hell maybe I shouldn’t say love. But I definitely fellin somethingfor the Eddie I met in your journals. Young Eddie at home with his family. Teenaged Eddie rebelling against his family. Eddie turning into Renegade. But still Ed underneath it all.” He’d swallowed each time she said Ed. But names meant something. Names showed who you were. “At least I thought you were Eddie. My Eddie. Eddie only for me.” Her voice hitched and she took a deep breath. She could do this. “Until Renegade… Until you fucked me like a whore and kicked me out.”
“Never.” He growled. His feet tracking towards her, but she ducked behind her desk. “I never said you were a whore.”
“You didn’t have to. Your body said it. Your actions said it.” Her breath hitched again, and she couldn’t see a damn thing through her teary contacts. “Hell, you couldn’t even bring yourself to kiss me.”
The big blur loomed larger. She stepped back until there was nowhere to step. Silence was the only thing she saw. The only thing between her and his massive shadow. Until he finally whispered into it, his breath brushing her face. “Then let’s fix that, right damn now.” His hands wrapped around her biceps pulling her closer. She would have fought the rough hold. She’d learned a lot since her last asshole. Bulked up a bit and taken more safety defense lessons than a police recruit. And she was going to use them, she was. The bigger they are the harder they fall her instructor, had taught her. Any second now and she was gonna let him have it.
Except his lips glazed hers softer than a feather. Not demanding, or asking. Begging. Begging for entry. Sucking her top lip into his mouth. Before releasing it to nibble on the bottom. Her mouth was open but he was taking his time. The gentlest of kisses. Like her lips were eggs he couldn’t afford to break. Except she was already breaking. She twisted her head and leaned into his kiss. Pursuing his tongue across the divide of their lips. Bridging them. And there he was. Her Eddie. Eddie only to her. Eddie opening and welcoming her in.
“I can’t believe I denied myself this. I could live off this kiss, this taste and never need another damn thing to eat.” He dipped down to kiss her again. Cutting his own words off. Holding the back of her head still like a precious baby bird. Afraid it would take flight, but she wasn’t going no damn where. This was the kiss she’d dreamed of. The stuff of fantasies. His tongue slid back into hers. Licking out any reply she could make. Swallowing down her moans without complaint. And damn it felt so good. He caressed every taste bud, waking them until they danced for him. Stood up and danced. Each pirouette of their dance sent an answering rhythm down her spine. Enflaming every part of her body. Her nipples standing up to do their own dance and her pussy doing ballet leaps in response. She was in one of those rom-com love scene kisses where the camera swirls around the couple as the kiss goes on and on. Damn, now she got it. His tongue curled around hers. Drawing out another moan with his hook and pull before he released her mouth. Her mouth gaping as she tried to follow him but her eyes. Her eyes were crystal clear.
“Miss Hannigan, I want you. I wanted you from the first moment I stepped in your class. It was three months of torture. And I fell too. Fell intosomething. How could I not? When you reached inside Renegade and pulled Eddie back out. Helping me to face things about myself, I either didn’t know or I’d forgotten.” He growled, but his eyes were warm bars of melting chocolate. “Lady you got me fucking journaling. I have to be some kind of fool for you to do that.” He took a deep breath. His shoulders rose and expanded before her eyes. “You said, I fucked you. I want to apologize but I can’t. Not when it was the best sex of my life.Myfantasy since the day I stepped in here. But give me the chance to make love to you. Give us a chance to be Eddie and Elyse. I want that. I want that so damn much.”
She reached up to pull his head down. Chasing his taste again. “I want that too.”
And then they met each other halfway. Bridging the gulf between them. And falling into something…more.
