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“I am physically attracted to Micah. Just looking at him, even with his clothes on, is enough to get me heated up. I love spending time with him, no matter what we are doing. The idea of committing to spending the rest of my life tied to him, though, is terrifying. What if this is a feeling that passes?”
“I think that you will know, in your soul, when it is true love. The only thing is that you have to let yourself admit it. Don’t let your stubbornness talk you out of it.”
Lucy nodded and said, “You talk as though you know me or something.”
Clara laughed and said, “You remind me of me. I almost lost Dillon because I was too stubborn and too scared to admit my true feelings for him. Luckily for me, I figured it out before it was too late.”
After the café closed, Lucy wandered back to her room. She showered and then wondered what she was going to do with herself. Neither Dean nor Micah had asked her to have dinner with them. She was relieved that Dean hadn’t asked her. She still cared about him as a friend and enjoyed spending time with him, but she hated trying to avoid the awkward hugs and kisses afterward. She didn’t want to hurt him, but she also wanted him to understand that she had absolutely no romantic feelings toward him.
On the other hand, she was a little depressed that Micah hadn’t asked her to join him for dinner. It wasn’t just that she enjoyed hanging out with him. She also wanted the kisses and touches that came after dinner.
Lucy ordered some Mexican food to be delivered, deciding that she didn’t want to leave the inn. She went downstairs to grab some soda and water from the vending machine, passing by the small restaurant.
Micah was sitting at one of the tables, facing away from her. A beautiful woman with the most incredible red hair was sitting at the table with him, laughing at something that he said. The woman leaned across the table toward Micah and reached out her hand as though she was touching his. Her shirt was low enough that Micah was sure to have a clear view of the woman’s breasts.
Her heart clenched and her stomach dropped as she hurried past them to the vending machines. With shaking hands, she put in her credit card and pushed the buttons for the different drinks she wanted. Gathering them up, she tried not to look at Micah and the woman when she walked past, but she couldn’t help it. The woman was still leaning across the table, talking animatedly.
Lucy hurried back to her room and set the drinks in the refrigerator. Her food arrived shortly after.
The delicious meal that had been so appetizing when she ordered it, sat on the table, getting cold. Lucy picked up her fork and pushed her enchilada and rice around on the plate, the image of the red-haired woman vivid in Lucy’s mind.
“I have no right to be jealous,” Lucy said. “I have no claims on Micah. As a matter of fact, I have made it clear that we are not a couple. He has every right to talk to any woman he chooses.”
In spite of her words, Lucy felt sick when she envisioned the two of them going back to Micah’s room and Micah holding the woman in his arms.
16
Micah
Micah looked up from his computer and rubbed the back of his neck. He closed his eyes as he shut the lid on his computer. Not for the first time, he wondered what he had been thinking when he decided to bring the damned contraption with him. He knew that he would just end up getting slammed with a ton of paperwork and emails.
“There has to be an easier way of doing this,” Micah told himself. He was going to have to hire a couple of secretaries to take care of the paperwork, emails, and other duties that he had been struggling over all day. It wasn’t that they were hard tasks. They were simply tedious.
Sighing heavily, he noted that he had three missed calls from his father. Micah had turned off his notifications after the first one, because he didn’t want to deal with whatever his father wanted to talk about, which was likely the situation between him and Lucy. Micah had nothing new to report and didn’t want to listen to his father ramble on about how he needed a mate.
His rumbling stomach reminded him that he had only had a small lunch on the run. Micah thought about asking Lucy if she wanted to go to dinner. He was pretty sure that she would agree to go with him. However, he decided to give her a break. They had been spending a lot of time together lately, and he reasoned that maybe a little bit of time away from each other wouldn’t be a bad thing. On top of that, she might be getting tired of feeling like a hunted rabbit, since both he and Dean had been pursuing her.
He did remember, with a sense of satisfaction, that his kiss had seemed to have a profound effect on her. She had a shocked look on her face when he had walked away. He had been pretty sure that she would have invited him into her room if he hadn’t and was equally sure that they would have ended up in bed together. However, as much as he would have loved having sex with her, there had to be something more in their relationship if they were going to have one.
Plus, it never hurts to leave a woman wanting more,Micah thought with a grin.
Another loud rumble from his stomach brought him out of his musing. He considered ordering something to be delivered, but the thought of staying trapped in the four walls of this small room drove him crazy.
The restaurant that was attached to the inn that he and Lucy was staying at served good food, and it would get him out of the cage for a little while.
The delicious smells called to Micah as soon as he passed by the doors, drawing him in. He chose a small table by the window and stared at the menu. The bad thing about being this hungry was that everything sounded good.
After he ordered a steak, medium well, a baked potato, and green beans, he watched out the window into the lobby. There was a very animated conversation going on between two people in the hallway and it looked like the two men were going to start throwing punches. He was startled by a woman’s voice.
“Excuse me. I’m sorry for bothering you, but the place is rather busy, and there aren’t a lot of places to sit. I was wondering if you minded me joining you.”
“Not at all,” Micah said.
Micah looked at the tall woman with curves in all the right places. Her green eyes reminded him of the forest. Her red hair reached the nice ass that he managed to get a glimpse of before she sat down. She had high cheekbones and a beautiful smile.
She held out her hand and said, “I’m Elise.”
Micah shook it, noting that she had a nice, firm handshake and replied, “Micah. It’s nice to meet you.”
