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“I wanted to talk to you is all.” He finally answered her as he sat next to her.
“You couldn’t wait until after we were done?”
He took her hand and shook his head. “I really don’t think I could. Besides, any excuse to get you up here and alone.” He held her face in his hands and kissed her thoroughly. He couldn’t get enough of her lips, and the more he kissed her, the more he wanted to. He’d kissed a lot of girls, but none like Amber.
“Well, I can’t argue with that.” She touched a finger to her lips when he pulled away. “I can’t believe the weekend is almost over. I mean, I know we still have all day tomorrow and I wasn’t planning on leaving until Monday morning.”
Her words hit him in the gut.Leaving?He didn’t even want to think about it.
“And Josie will be here tomorrow morning.” Amber was still talking. “I’m excited to see her, but…”
“But you’re kind of enjoying the way things are?”
She nodded. “Is that silly? I mean, I know it is. We’re not…I mean, this isn’t…we’re just having fun.”
Cole ignored the implication of her words. “We are having fun. But I was thinking.” The idea hit him like a flash. There really was nothing to lose, so he took a deep breath and said what he was thinking before he could change his mind. “There’s no reason that we can’t continue… this.”
“This?” Amber sat back and looked at him as if he’d just told her he was really a Tibetan monk. “What do you mean?”
He took a breath, and silently reprimanded himself for being nervous. He was never nervous with women. Besides, it’s not as if he were asking her to marry him. He was being ridiculous. “All I’m saying is, we’ve been having a lot of fun together. And I like you, Amber.”
“I like you, too.”
That made him happier than he expected. Cole grinned. “And life is too short not to have fun. Don’t you agree?” She narrowed her eyes in question.Maybe that had been the wrong choice of words. Dammit. Why was it so hard for him to say how he really felt?“So why don’t we keep the good times going?”
Cole had to force himself not to groan out loud.That was definitely not the right choice of words.
“Keep the good times going?” She shook her head. “What does that even mean?”
Cole ignored the warning bells ringing in his head and pushed on with his idea. Maybe if he just got the words out properly, it would all make sense. “What it means is that I think you should come with me when I go back.”
“Go back?”
“To Australia.” He grabbed her hands and squeezed. “Life is way too short not to make the most of it. And you said yourself that you didn’t have any immediate plans now that you’ve graduated and the job wasn’t offered to you right away, so why not? Let’s go see the world and have a little fun. Together.”
Together?
See the world?
Amber’s mind raced.What was he saying?Was he drunk?
Did he seriously think he could sit here and ask her so casually to drop everything and go with him to the other side of the world? Sure, they’d been having fun but that was different. It was safe here. It wasn’tAustralia.Besides, they were temporary. They were only having a little fun—no attachments. They werenotthe get serious—move to the other side of the world—change your life completely—kind of together.
Were they?
She blinked hard, trying desperately to process his words. But she couldn’t think straight. She’d been offered her dream job. And now…she was being offered…something so much different.
Could it be a different dream? Could she really let go of her plan to take a chance?
He was squeezing her hands in his and watching her intently for the answer that no doubt he expected to be a big hell yes. She could see it in his eyes. He wanted her to jump up and say yes without a second thought. And dammit if she didn’t want to do just that.
But she couldn’t.
It just wasn’t who she was and despite how much she wished she could be someone else, do something else, it just wasn’t her.
Was it?
“Amber?”
