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It’s wild how far I’ve fallen in one appointment.
It’s like I can breathe and see clearly for the first time since I saw Coral. The amusement dancing in her blue eyes makes my heart pound in my chest. She’s gorgeous. I want her.
I’m not sure if I can have her though.
“Okay then,” I try and gloss over the way I’ve proverbially tripped over my feet. “Do you think your friend will like the ring we’ve designed?”
She gives me a big smile and it’s what sends me over. I can practically feel myself cracking open my chest and handing this woman my heart. I’m not even bothered about how she lights up looking at the jewelry I make.
For the first time in a long time, it makes me feel pride in what I do. Who doesn’t like sparkly things? I work with them all the time and I’m still in awe of it sometimes.
“Definitely,” Coral nods her head emphatically. “She’ll love it.”
The way she gushes over my work makes me feel ten fucking feet tall.
I want to drape her in my jewelry. I want to see all the different smiles I can get from her. I want to keep hearing her laugh.
I can’t help but compliment her, “You have a really good eye, even if it was obvious the ring wasn’t for you.”
She bites her lip and blushes slightly. It’s adorable on her though I don’t get the feeling she does it often. She’s not naïve and she’s not innocent. I can see it in the swirls of her eyes, the cornflower blue arresting jewels I could get lost in.
Her blonde hair flows around her shoulders in waves, and I can’t wait to wrap it around my fist and give a tug. I bet her lips would part perfectly. I can almost hear the little gasp she would make.
“I’m a web designer,” she gives a little shrug, “so I know a little about design and what’s there not to like about jewelry?”
I can’t help but bark out a laugh at her words. She’s cute as hell. Lincoln is staring at the metals and the rough drawing I put together of the ring he’s going to use to ask the woman he loves to marry him. As I glance at him, I realize how ridiculous it was for me to even consider him with Coral.
Not with the way he’s looking at the drawing of the ring. There’s a dreaminess in his expression now. Something which wasn’t there when he was looking at Coral.
“You have a good eye,” I tell her in all seriousness. Wait. Did I say that already?
Fuck.
Coral winks at me and then looks around my office, her eyes tripping over one wall set up with various displays of my work. “You do too.” When her eyes come back to meet mine, I see a glint of mischievousness there as she cocks her head to the side. “Do you have a website?”
I chuckle and shake my head, “Not a good one.”
She makes a humming sound and then the next thing I know she’s handing me a business card. “You should call me. I’d be happy to help you with it.”
There’s kindness in her tone, but she’s not overly flirtatious either. I think she really is offering to revamp my website. And not much more. Strange.
I’ll take her help on the website for now. Then I’ll work on making her mine. I might not have started today thinking love was in my future, but now I know the truth. I just needed Coral to walk into my life.
Now that she’s here, I’m never letting her go.
CHAPTER 3
CORAL
It’s been a week since I met Holden and I’m all mixed up about it. I’m not sure if he’s just a job or if he’s something more. Every time I let myself think about the more side of things, I pull myself back. A man is not what I’m supposed to be focused on right now.
He needs a new website and I’m the girl who can make that happen. Nothing more, nothing less.
I’m not even sure how I got through sitting in his office. All I wanted to do was launch myself over his desk and cling to him. Or maybe strip before offering myself up like a buffet. Then there were the thoughts of getting on my hands and knees and crawling to him, unzipping the fly of his jeans and swallowing his cock whole.
Yeah, I had a lot of fantasies while around Holden. None of them went with my version of new year, new me. I barely kept them back and I’m still not sure how I did it. I deserve a fucking award, or a gold star, maybe a medal.
The most restrained in the face of a hot man who makes your panties damp.
