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Not a good person.
So, I just shoved that away and embraced my messiness.
My apartment was clean. My car was immaculate. My aprons…trashed. But, more importantly, my cakes were perfect, evenifI wore a piping bag’s worth of icing each and every time I finish—
“Ack!”
I’d run into a brick wall.
No. Okay, fine. I’d run into a brick-headed hockey player.
“What the fuck, Walker?” I snapped, brushing off his hands, which had come up to steady me—ugh, why did he have to benice?—and started to move by him.
Even though he was smaller than a lot of the guys on the Breakers, Walker still took up a lot of space. Or maybe that was only in my head. It was just…he seemed big, too big, and he sucked all the air out of the room, and he made me feel—
It didn’t matter.
What I felt didn’t matter.
Not when it came to one Walker Laine.
“I need to talk to you,” he said.
“I think we’ve done all the talking we need to do,” I snapped.
Regret careening across his face, marring the beautiful features.
Because once I’d thought that his invading my life meant something, that he might want something special with me.
That he might want…just me.
Just Dommie.
Just a girl who was no one special being wanted by a man who was—
Who’d made it abundantly clear a future that included wanting me wasn’t in the cards.
“Sunlight—”
Yeah, no.
That he’d called me that, now, after what he’d said and how he’d pushed me away and…how he’d made me feel?
I could deal with the invading of my life, the annoying presence when I was capable of handling my own shit. I could even deal with him showing up at my place. He wanted to fix my sink? Sure, let him knock himself out.
But calling me Sunlight?
That couldn’t happen.
And certainly not in that gentle voice and paired with his hand lifting, fingers trailing down my throat.
That was what had given me the stupid hope, the thoughts of a future that might be.
That was what had hurt so fucking much when reality had smacked me back into my place.
“Don’t,” I snapped.
His eyes flared with annoyance. “Dommie—”
