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“Then, why did you?”
“Because I wanted to talk to you.” I sent a glance her way. “About us?”
“Us?”
“Yes.” I could feel Quinn’s eyes staring into me.
“What about us?” Her voice was low yet intrigued.
“There’s an obvious attraction between the two of us,” I stated. “That can’t be denied.”
“Yes.”
“I don’t think that we can keep working together or try to go back to normal unless we figure this out together. And I think that the only way we can work past this is if we go to the root of the problem and…”
“And sleep together?” Quinn finished for me, her voice shocked. And I heard the smallest bit of lust in it. She liked where this conversation was going.
“Exactly.”
“Why would that help us?” She asked me. “Wouldn’t that make it worse, so much worse?”
I knew where she was coming from, but that wasn’t how I saw this.
“I don’t think so,” I told her, honestly. “Right now, all I can think about is how you’ll feel, what you’ll taste like. If I had all of the answers to my questions, then wouldn’t those questions just leave my head? I wouldn’t have to worry about those things anymore.”
Quinn looked like she was taking in everything I was saying. “So one night of wild sex, and then what?” She asked me, trying to get answers to fill in all of the holes that my proposition were leaving her with.
“And then we forget all about it,” I told her, evenly.
She nodded. “So, we pretend that it didn’t happen.”
“Precisely.”
When the words were said out loud, I realized that they sounded different, much different than I had expected. It made me sound like a cold-hearted jerk who just wanted to take advantage of her. That wasn’t my intention, and I couldn’t change how I was viewed. After all, if the shoe fit. I couldn’t change it now.
Quinn didn’t say anything. Her eyes were focused out the window, and she was silent. I couldn’t think of a time that I’d ever seen her so quiet. Usually, she was full of words, things that she wanted to say. I’d made her speechless, and that was an accomplishment to me.
But I wanted to hear something. I wanted her to tell me whether she agreed with me or not. At the same time though, I didn’t want to rush her for an answer. The car ride was incredibly quiet, as we drove to the vet, leaving me with my own thoughts. Quinn didn’t stop looking out of the window, and I knew she was trying to process everything that I’d said without making that obvious.
When was the last time that I had ever felt so anxious or nervous? I was the kind of man who was always sure of himself, who knew exactly what he wanted and that was that. So, why was it different this time? Why was I so unsure of myself and attempting to get validation from a woman, one that I planned to sleep with, at that?
In all honesty, I was used to being confident of myself and in my actions. I was used to knowing exactly what I wanted and getting it, without having anything stand in my way. When I wanted a woman, I never had problems getting her, and now I was wondering if Quinn was going to be the first woman to really reject me.
Quinn wanted me, I knew that much. But maybe I wasn’t the only one with questions and concerns. Just like I didn’t want to sleep with a subordinate, perhaps she didn’t want to sleep with her boss. Last night could have just been a mistake for both of us, except that it wasn’t. I knew what I’d said, but I hadn’t really thought that it was a mistake. Nothing with her could ever be a mistake.
I pulled into the parking lot of the vet and stopped. Quinn unbuckled her seatbelt, but she didn’t get out. She turned around to face me, biting into that lower lip the way that I liked. I wished that I could reach across, grab her chin and press those lips against mine. But I knew better than to even consider that at the moment.
She hadn’t even told me whether or not she was accepting or rejecting my proposition yet.
In an effort to try and convince her, I got out of the car and walked over to her side to open her door. Quinn looked shocked at my chivalry before she slipped out of the car, our bodies incredibly close together. She was staring at me with those big green eyes that I’d come to like so much.
“What’s your answer, Quinn?” I asked her, bending down so that my lips were next to her ear. I didn’t care if anyone saw us.
She didn’t say anything for a second before she nodded her head. “I think that I would like that.”
My thumb brushed over her bottom lip. “Good.” And then my lips were on hers. Kissing her may not have been the best idea, but it seemed like a pretty good one to me. Those beautiful, luscious lips. I could tell that she was surprised, but she was enjoying this nonetheless. She liked the feeling of my lips against her, liked when I kissed her.
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