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One kiss flowed into another. My cock rose behind my jeans, which were becoming uncomfortably tight as it hardened.
Our breaths mingled, and I claimed her mouth even more avidly than before. What was it about this woman that I wanted to meld her right into me?
One of my hands slid down her side to her hip. Lou took that as a cue to scoot closer, her knees coming to rest against my thigh.
My cock stiffened even more, and my fingers curled against the frayed fabric of her jeans. I adjusted them as if to tug her right onto my lap, but something about the impulse made me hesitate.
Desire clanged through me. My pulse was racing, my skin burning up. She was driving me crazy, and we hadn’t done anything more than kiss yet.
This was dangerous.
Before I could catch my reaction, I jerked away from her. My hip banged into the arm of the sofa.
Lou stared at me, her own face flushed, her lips deliciously swollen. Fucking hell, how could I be throwing away this moment?
The same question seemed to be running through her mind. “Is something wrong?”
I fumbled for an answer. “I—I’m just not sure this is a good idea.”
She cocked her head, knitting her brow. When she sucked her lower lip under her teeth to worry on it, I just about short-circuited and yanked her back into my arms after all.
“Do you think getting together like this would be bad for our skating partnership?” she ventured.
There—that was an excuse that made sense. A hell of a lot more sense thanI like you too fucking much.
But I found I couldn’t outright lie. My mouth opened and closed and opened again.
“I guess having that kind of physical connection might actually help us work better together. But the emotions that could come with it—that can get messy.”
The glint of mischief came back into Lou’s eyes. “Oh, then there’s an easy solution to that. We’ll just have to avoid falling in love, and it’ll be no big deal.”
“Right,” I said, my throat suddenly hoarse. “I should have thought of that. No big deal.”
Other than the fact that I had the sneaking suspicion I was already falling for her, hard.
Lou stroked her fingers along my jaw with a heady shiver of sensation that made it really difficult for me to care about my reservations.
I could keep myself detached, right? I’d managed to navigate training with Niko all this time.
And God, did I want this woman.
But Lou hesitated, gazing at me. All at once, she looked oddly shy.
“I should probably tell you before anything else happens between us—Niko and I have been getting pretty close too. He knows I wasn’t planning on being exclusive. I don’t want you to get the wrong idea about what Icanoffer.”
Even as a jolt of jealousy hit me, I found I wasn’t actually surprised. Not after seeing the two of them interacting at the rink.
All the shared laughter and the little touches came back to me. My gut twisted.
He’d gone after her—or she’d turned to him first—
What was I even bothered about? It wasn’t as if I’d even been making overtures of friendship with either of them.
And I didn’t really want to look too closely at the convoluted threads that jealousy split into.
Being with Lou like this felt good. Better than I’d felt off the ice in ages.
Why shouldn’t I enjoy it while it lasted? For once in my life, surely I deserved a moment when I wasn’t taking everything so damned seriously?
