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“I really fucking like you.”
Time stops. I absorb her words into every cell of my being.
I’ve wanted to hear her say that.Somuch. And tonight, she’s said it twice. I’ve wanted to say it to her right back. “I really fucking like you, too.”
Blushing and grinning like a schoolgirl, Nadia shakes her head, causing dark curls to fly free of her crumbling updo.
“Wow. The moment just got really freaking intense.” I can tell that she’s looking for a way out. She holds up her hand and motions over the bartender. “Can we get another round of shots? Lemon drops this time, please.”
The man smiles at her before tipping his chin in respect at me. “Coming right up.”
I scoff when the bartender disappears. “Lemon drops? Disgusting.”
“My favorite,” she tells me with a wide smile.
Our shots arrive, and we take them together. She laughs at my ridiculously pinched face when I gulp the first one. I should have told her I hate sour stuff, but I’ll suck a whole nasty lemon if it makes her this happy.
“My nose is tingly,” she says after a while.
I chuckle. “What?”
Nadia wiggles her nose. “It’s tingly! It always does this when I drink too much.”
“Wow, your own spidey senses. I’m impressed, Dream Girl. You’re a little drunk, huh?”
She laughs. “This isn’t little drunk. This is big drunk.”
“You think it’s time to switch to water?” I’m already searching for the bartender again.
“No way!” And to prove her badass-ness to me, she snatches up a new shot and tosses it back, too.
Just to be safe, I order us some food to soak up the alcohol. Then we’re snacking on anything and everything that gets put on the bar in front of us and learning more and more about each other.
Her face turns shy, and I know she’s about to ask me something big.
“So…I’ve heard some rumors about you…” she says, biting her lip.
I know exactly what she’s getting at, but I play dumb. “Oh yeah? What rumors?”
“About…you being a…virgin? Is it true?”
I can feel my face turning hot. I shouldn’t be nervous about this, but talking about this with the woman I’m crazy about is far different than shooting the shit with my brothers.
I’m tempted to lie. But then I remember the guys encouraging me to tell her the truth. “Yeah. It’s true.”
Nadia’s brows dart up in surprise. “Buthow? How do you resist all the groupies?”
I snort. “Well, I know all of those women don’treallyknow or like me for me, so turning them down isn’t all that hard. I mean hell, I have a deeper connection with my hand than those no-name groupies.”
“Okay, too much information,” she laughs, but her stare darts down to my hands. “Y’know, when we met, I really thought you were just another twenty-something party boy.”
“Where’d you even get that impression?” I complain.
She shrugs a shoulder. “The first time I met you, you were at a bar.”
I shake my head incredulously. “Singing karaoke withmy grandmother.”
A titter bursts past her lips. “Then, there was that time you came up to me at Katrina and Knox’s pool party. You shoved your phone in my face and said, ‘Put your number in my phone before I don’t want it anymore’.” She puffs up her chest with machismo and drops her voice a few octaves as she imitates me.
