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“Hear me out. I have some bullet points for this. I knew it wouldn’t be a simple discussion.”
“You have bullet points?”
“Yep. It’s what you do at two in the morning when you can’t sleep because you can’t stop thinking about the sound a woman makes when she comes on your hand in a restaurant.” Beck picked up his phone from the table and scrolled. “Okay, number one: Neither of us wants a relationship. Number two: You’re moving across the country at the end of the summer. There’s a pretty definitive lifespan to this arrangement I’m proposing. Number three: I’m attracted to you. Very attracted. And I think you feel the same. Number four: We’ve test driven the car, so we already know it’s a nice ride. No disappointments. Number five…” Beck paused and held my eyes. “I really want you. I haven’t had a good night’s sleep since the restaurant—too busy thinking about that little mewl sound you make when you come.”
He set his phone back on the table. I leaned forward and checked his screen. He really did have a numbered list. Though it looked like there were more things listed than five. “What else is on that list?”
“Nothing.”
I held out my hand. “Let me see then?”
Beck held my eyes for a few heartbeats. Then I did a quick grab and took it.
“Number six: Best head ever.” I raised my eyes to his. “You seem to have forgotten a few.”
“You just told me I was a pig, so I was trying to accommodate your request to be polite.”
I chuckled and kept reading. “Number seven: Phenomenal tits. Need her to ride me so I can watch them go up and down.”
I lowered the phone. “You are seriously a thirteen-year-old boy.”
After the last two, I probably should’ve stopped reading. But I didn’t. And it was the last one that got me.
Number eight:She makes me forget.
I sighed and sucked in my bottom lip as I thought it over. I hadn’t been able to stop thinking about him since the night in the restaurant either. Hell, maybe since that first kiss we’d shared in the middle of an argument. “I can’t get attached to you…”
“We’ll keep it to sex. No romantic walks on the beach.”
Why was I considering this? Bottom line, each day was getting harder and harder. And when I was with Beck, whether we were having sex or just hanging out, there was no room to remember the rest of my life—he knew how to make me forget. “I need to think about it.”
“Okay…”
“But if we decide to do this, I don’t think I want Louise to know. I feel like we’d be getting her hopes up.”
“I don’t often discuss sex with my grandmother anyway.”
I shook my head with a smile. “I can’t believe I’m even considering this.”
Beck leaned forward and put his hand on my knee. His thumb caressed the inside of my leg and sent shockwaves through my body. “How about a do-over of the restaurant?” His hand inched up higher. “You know, to help you decide.”
I slapped a hand over his, stopping his ascent. “I think I’d like to decide this one on my own.”
He pouted. “Shame.”
“In fact, I should get going. I told Louise I’d do some travel planning. I’m not sure if she mentioned it to you yet, but she’s planning on getting back on the road on the fifteenth, the day after her doctor’s appointment, as long as he gives her the green light.”
Beck frowned. “I know she’s doing well, but I don’t think she’s strong enough yet. That’s only a little more than a week away.”
“I agree. So I suggested we start slow and maybe hit one of her bucket-list items that isn’t so adventurous.”
“What’s that? Climbing the Sears Tower?”
“No. Going to visit Charles Tote.”
“Who’s Charles Tote?”
“Her first love.”
