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“I wanted to kill Rob when I saw him kiss you because he doesn’t give a crap about you and you deserve to be kissed by someone who loves you.”
Before I can protest, Fletcher tightens his hold on my face and kisses me hard.
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Chapter7
A Really Good Kisser
Fletcher
Brittany’s lips resist mine at first. The thrill of finally touching her soft lips gets me rock hard, but I don’t stop myself. My fingers curve into her soft, round cheeks and my lips press hers until they spread open for me. I put my tongue in her mouth and Brittany responds with a gentle moan. It’s been a long time since I kissed a woman like this, but it’s been even longer since I kissed someone I wasn’t supposed to kiss.
Brittany whimpers a little as our tongues tease each other and I let her pull away. Letting go of her face hurts me physically. If she wants to go home, I guess I’ll take her home, but tonight, I don’t want to be alone.
She looks shocked.
“You are a fantastic kisser,” she blurts out. I grin. She’s young and as far as I know, she hasn’t kissed too many people.
“I’ve wanted to kiss you all night.”
It’s honest, but it hurts to be this honest knowing I’m blowing up my life and blowing up a fucking friendship. I thought I could handle seeing her with Rob. Maybe if she were just talking to him, I could handle it but the way she looked at him and the way he kissed her… I can’t afford to lose Brittany Reddick to another man because I’m too much of a coward to fight for what I want.
“Then why did you complain about my outfit?” Brittany fights back. Damn it, Britt. I know she’s stubborn, but right now I don’t want her to fight my feelings for her. I promise her, they’re very fucking real. They would have to be real for me to risk the most important friendship of my life.
“I told you, I can’t stand the thought of other guys looking at you and touching you and… Christ, Brittany. You are worth all the guys in this small town put together. I’ve watched you grow up and dream of a happily ever after. A guy who does pills ain’t gonna give you that.”
“And you are? You’re a cop, Fletcher. How is that any better for me?”
“I’m a detective in the sheriff’s department on track to make sheriff. I’ll have enough money to put you in a big house on the hill, retire and take care of you. I have a whole life planned out, Britt and you’ve been a part of my life so long… I can’t imagine any of it without you.”
She shakes her head like she doesn’t want to believe me, but I’m tired of Brittany Reddick questioning me. I’ve shot straight with her the entire time I’ve known her. She was always Harry’s little girl until… she wasn’t. She became my family and then the whole thing got twisted upside down.
“What are we going to tell my dad?” she says, her voice trembling. “I can go home right now and pretend this never happened but… if something happens, and that’s a big if… we can’t tell my dad. He would freak out and right now… he doesn’t need a big scare like that.”
“I’ll handle your father, Britt.”
“What if he throws hands?” she says. “Will you fight a sick man? Because I doubt that.”
I chuckle. “Harry hasn’t kicked my ass since 2017. I won’t let it come to that, Britt. We both care about you. We both want the best for you. If I talk to your dad, I’ll tell him the truth. I can’t imagine my life without you and I want to give you everything I can, Britt. Everything.”
“You can’t possibly feel that way about me, Fletcher.”
“Why not?”
She scoffs. “There aren’t exactly guys lining down the block to date me. I find it highly unlikely that you of all people would look at me and see–
“Damn it, Brittany. I love you, okay? I fucking love you and this isn’t the first time I’ve said it, but this is the first time I’ve meant it like this.”
Before she can ask questions or make any more of the smart ass comments I love her so much for, I grab her cheeks and kiss Brittany Reddick again. I can’t get enough of kissing her and tonight, I want more than kissing her because I want her to know that there isn’t a fucking chance I’ll let her walk out my door and into another man’s arms ever again.
Her lips freeze at first and then part willingly. We stumble backwards in each other’s arms, shattering the tension between us and falling into our instincts. She’s off-limits, and she’s always been, but now that our lips have broken the seal keeping us apart from each other, we’re just a man and a woman. This woman is fucking beautiful and what Brittany doesn’t know is the reason she doesn’t have men lining up down the block to have her is because Harry and I kept them away from her.
She’s too pure for the fellas out here who seem to only want to get a woman pregnant so they can drag her through a fucking custody battle or kick her ass when they get loaded. Guys like that have no business around Brittany because she deserves the fucking world.
“I love you,” I whisper, dropping my lips to her neck. “I know I shouldn’t, Britt. Trust me, I tried to fight it.”
She whimpers as my lips fasten on the softest spot of her neck, the spot I tried to ignore when she pulled that mass of messy curls up into a bun. I’ve want to kiss that spot for so long it hurts. When a man falls in love he can’t settle for casual. When a man falls in love, he can wait as long as a woman needs. The woman you love is always worth waiting for. Always.
