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She’s not wearing any shoes and I’m towering above her. I have to drop my head and she has to incline hers just so we can make eye contact.
“I know. I was there,” she tells me.
“So technically that wasn’t our one night.”
She blinks. “Did I ever tell you that my uncle was an alcoholic?” she asks me.
I lift a brow at the change in conversation. “Um, no.”
“He had rules, too. All kinds of ones. And when they got in the way he’d push them gently until he got what he wanted. No drinking before six but it was five? No worries, it’s six somewhere, right? That’s what you’re doing. Pushing at the rules. Seeing what breaks. But the thing is, Liam, you’ll end up breaking me.”
It’s like she just punched me in the gut. “I’d never hurt you,” I tell her.
“You’d try not to. But you will. I’m not cut out for one night stands. I’m not the kind of girl who can walk away from people I care for. You and I, we’ll have to see each other for Charlie’s birthdays and holidays. And if I see you there with another woman knowing that she’s having what I had with you at least for one night.” Her voice cracks. “I’m sorry, it just won’t work.”
“Okay,” I say, my voice tight.
“Okay?” Her brows lift. “Okay, as in let’s move on and forget this conversation so tonight we can watch the next episode of Grey’s and you can hate on McDreamy?”
I shake my head. “No, not that. Okay as in I understand. You need more. You fucking deserve more. And I want to give you more.” The tightness in my chest is almost painful, but that’s okay. It’s a reminder that I’m still alive because right now I feel like I could be floating away.
“What do you mean?”
I put my fingers beneath her chin, reveling in the softness of her skin. Then I lean down until our eyes are inches from each other. She doesn’t move, doesn’t breathe, just looks at me. “Let me prove that I can give you more,” I say. “That I can be the kind of guy who deserves you.”
“Liam…” She blinks, her thick lashes sweeping down. “I don’t think you can do that.”
“People can change.”
“I know they can. But for themselves, not because they want somebody else. I don’t want you to change for me. I want you to do it foryou.”
The pressure in my chest is unexpected. There’s so much sweetness in her expression that it takes everything I have not to drop my head down further until my mouth takes hers.
And I think she’d kiss me back. Despite the protests of rejection if I kissed her, Sophie would kiss me back.
I know how to seduce. I know how to make her melt. I know how to make her come.
But I don’t want those things. I want to make her fall for me.
And isn’t that the kicker? The one thing I do my best to never do yet now here I am, desperate for it.
My brothers would laugh like hell if they could see me right now.
I step back, putting some much needed space between us, ignoring the voice in my head that tells me I’m making a huge mistake.
“Right,” I tell her. “I get it.”
“I’m sorry.” She attempts a smile, but it’s wavering. “I hope we can still be friends.”
I nod. “Friends. Of course.”
This time her smile is true. “Thank you for being so understanding.”
“Oh, I understand,” I tell her. “Look, I should go now. I have to do a few things.”
“Okay.” She nods, her eyes shiny. “That’s fine.”
“But we’ll still watch Grey’s together soon, okay?”
