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“Nope.Salted caramel all day, every day.”
“All right.”I ordered for everyone and got a pistachio for myself.
As we walked back to our cars, Damon and Rachel walked together and Scarlet and I followed.She moaned as she took a bite of her ice cream and my mind immediately began to wander, thinking about how sweet her soft cries would be.To moan, my name on her lips.What it would be like listening to her come over and over again.And—
My thoughts were interrupted by Scarlet’s spoon heading into my ice cream cup.“Woah, what do you think you’re doing?”I asked.
She looked like a kid whose hand was caught in the cookie jar.“I can’t help it.May I?I love pistachio.”
I held up a finger.“Hold it right there.You’re one of those people?”
“What do you mean?”She raised one of her eyebrows.
I repeated her question.“What do I mean?I mean you order your own and still want a bite of someone else’s.”
“Guilty,” she said, as she took a spoonful, closed her eyes, and sighed a content sigh.“Incredible.”
I leaned down and brushed my lips gently over hers, tasting the tantalizing combination of ice cream flavors.“Yes, you are,” I said, without thinking twice.
She blushed.“I think you’re pretty great yourself.”
“Tonight was perfect, Scar.I had a lot of fun.”
“Me, too.It was exactly what I needed.”She got on her tip-toes and brushed a kiss on my cheek.
“I’d like to do it again.”
“What, kiss?”she asked.
I grinned.“Yes, that too.But, no, I was talking about going on another date.I’d like to take you out again.”
“I’d like that, too,” she replied.
“Really?”That came out an octave higher than I anticipated.
She chuckled.“Of course.I wasn’t kidding, Colt, when I told you I liked you.”She added, “A lot.”
“I know you just got out of a relationship, though, and I don’t want to push you in to another one.”
She grabbed my hand beside my side and held on to it.“You’re not.And, yes, I did just break up with Nick, but that’s so far behind me it’s not even funny.To be honest, our relationship ended way before I actually broke up with him.It’s been over for a while now, I just realized it too late.”
“I’m sorry you went through what you did with him.I know he hurt you.”
She shuttered.“Colt,” she warned.
“I know, I know, you don’t want to talk about it.”I put my hand up in defeat.“I give.I won’t bring it up again.I promise.”
“You just can’t help it.It’s in your nature to protect and you feel I need protecting.But I’m a big girl, Colt.I can take care of myself.”
That was what Damon told me.Not that I needed him to.In the short time I knew Scarlet, I already thought she was one of the strongest women I’d ever met.
“All right, so can I have some of your salted caramel before it’s all gone?”I asked.
She frowned.“Oh, Colt, don’t tell me you’re one of those people.”She threw my words back at me.Then added, “I don’t think I can be with someone who takes bites of my food.”
“Oh, really?”I tickled her side, making her laugh, and squirm into me.“Can I have a bite now?”
She giggled some more.
