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He nods. “Yeah, and though I love what we just did, I don’t want you thinking that’s why I came here tonight.”

Clearly we’re about to have a serious post-fucking-around conversation. “Can I put my shirt on? It feels weird to have this talk with you fully clothed and me shirtless.”

He grins. “I like you shirtless.” His gaze dips to my chest and he kisses my nipple.

“I’m aware.” I push him up by the shoulders and he stands, adjusting himself in his pants. Once my shirt is back on, I say, “Better.”

“If you say so.” He sits on the couch and takes my hand. “I’m serious when I said that I didn’t come here thinking this would happen.”

I nod. “I believe you. But now what do we do?”

A small part of me hopes he’ll say the responsible thing, which is that this can never happen again. But a bigger part of me wants him to add me to his calendar every night for more of this. We may not be able to have a relationship, but maybe we can have something else… at least for a little while.

He blows out a breath, pushing a hand through his hair in a way that musses it perfectly. “Guess that depends on you. I mean… I want to do more of this, but I get that it’s risky. No one from the organization could know that we’re fooling around.”

Okay, he said fooling around. At least we’re on the same page there.

“Agreed.”

He arches an eyebrow. “Agreed that it’s foolish or that you want to keep fooling around?”

I smile. “That if wedidkeep fooling around, no one could know.”

“Okay, and do you want to? Keep fooling around?” He doesn’t say anything, and I don’t fill the silence. “Not to tempt you or anything, but I held back. I still have some of my patented moves to show you.”

I can’t fight my growing smile. “Well, I’d be remiss if I didn’t give you the opportunity to show me what you’re made of, wouldn’t I?”

“Completely irresponsible.” He holds my gaze and leans closer.

“I guess it’s decided then.”

“I suppose it is.”

“We should probably seal it with a kiss.” I smirk.

“You always were the smarter of the two of us.” He leans all the way in and presses his lips to mine.

Our kiss lasts a couple of minutes before I pull away. “If you don’t leave now, there’s a good chance we’re both going to end up naked.”

He looks as though he wants to say something but doesn’t. He stands. “You’re right. And just to prove that’s not why I came here, I am going to leave.” Lee walks over to the door.

I meet him by the door. “I guess I’ll see you at therapy tomorrow then.”

“That you will.” He places a chaste kiss on my lips and leaves.

I stand there for a good few minutes, replaying everything that just happened over and over. I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it happened or that I let it happen. My only excuse for going along with it is that I wasn’t prepared. I hadn’t shored up my defenses the same way I do before I show up at work every day.

But now that it’s happened, I have to be careful not to fall for him again. It’s one thing to let Lee Burrows back into my body. It would be another entirely to let him back into my heart.

Twenty-Three

Lee

The entire morning, I’ve felt like an excited and anxious teenager eager to see his crush at school.

I always look forward to seeing Shayna, but today, it’s as though every minute passes at a snail’s pace. Though I usually enjoy watching tape and bantering with the guys, today I’m wishing it away because they’re all standing between Shayna and me.

Finally, the team heads out onto the field to practice and I go to the rehab room to meet the woman occupying every one of my brain cells.

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