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“Is there a problem?” she asked me.
“No, I mean … I don’t know. I should go after her.”
I left Cherry and hurried towards the curb where I saw Leah run. She was trying to get in her car when I got there, and I ran forward to close her door once she opened it.
“Leah, wait—listen to me.”
“Not now, Tommy,” she said again.
“You can’t run from me forever. I won’t let you. We have something, Leah …. I know you can feel it too. We …”
She was still trying to pull her door open, so I released my grip on the door, but put my hand on her shoulder and turned her around to look at me. Her eyes widened when I pressed her against my body and before I put a hand on her chin, I heard her whimper.
“Fine, I’ll let you be, but not until you look me in the eyes and tell me that what we shared meant nothing to you.”
I felt the heat of my words as I said them, and as her sandy brown eyes pierced into mine, I felt a renewed surge of adrenaline kiss my nerves. The shiver inside me was intense. The air around us charged and tensed. Leah had to feel it too, right?
“Danielle is my best friend, and you’re her father,” she finally said, but her words sounded husky, and she swallowed hard.
“Tell me something I don’t know,” I continued as I inched my face towards hers, then sucked in a deep breath so I could fill my lungs with her scent. “Tell me you don’t feel this passion … This insane desire. Tell me you don’t feel this need, Leah.”
“I …” she whimpered, closed her eyes just as I tasted her lips, then melted into my arms for the sweet kiss regardless of all the people watching us.
Chapter Twenty-One
Leah
Hiskissislikelife itself. The first time Tommy kissed me, I was taken. Right now, there’s no way I can deny the flood of desire, and the urgent need to feel his hands on my body. His arms are fastened around my waist, and his lips clung to mine with the same urgency I felt.
My fingers work their way into his hair, and I massaged his scalp before touching his chest and running my hands down. he groaned, then whispered my name into my mouth before pulling away.
We panted, and our harsh breaths mingled before he took my lips again. His tongue swirled around mine, and the taste of caramel on his lips was my undoing. I suckled his lower lip, moaned into his mouth, then snaked my arms around his neck and lifted myself on tiptoe to meet his kiss.
This was like fire and ice flowing through me all at once. It burned my insides and gave me passionate chills. I wanted more of his kiss. I had craved it, and the past few days had been crazy without him around me.
I managed to regain full control of my senses, but then I pushed away from him.
“Leah …”
“I don’t want to do this,” I told him and shook my head. “Tommy I ….”
“What are you so afraid of?” he challenged, then held my hands again. “Leah ….”
“I’m in love with you, Tommy,” I blurted in a loud voice, then felt tears sting the back of my eyes. “I’m in love with you. I have been in love with you, and I … God, this isn’t happening. Danielle would kill me if she found out, but I can’t stop thinking about you. I don’t want to lose my friend, and I don’t want her to lose her dad. This thing between us, its fire, and its thunder and it makes my world spin on its axis, but it’s not right, and it’s not going to last.”
I didn’t realize I was speaking on the edge of my voice until my gaze dashed past him and I saw the eyes on us. Cherry and some others were standing there watching us, and I saw Danielle there too. Her eyes were wide, and her skin pale.
“Danelle’s watching us,” I whimpered as my guilt weighed heavily down on my chest. I hoped she didn’t hear a word I said, but I highly doubted that she didn’t.
“Leah …”
“I don’t want to do this with you, Tommy, and it’s best we just forget everything that happened between us because it was a mistake.”
I saw the flicker of hurt in his eyes as he flinched, but I ignored it. My heart was breaking into a million pieces, and I didn’t want him to see me cry.
I had probably ruined what was left of my friendship with Danielle by kissing Tommy in front of her and confessing my feelings too. There was nothing left to say, and as I drove off with tears blinding me, I consoled myself into believing I was doing the right thing.
Even though it hurts so damn much.
