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Her fingers tighten on mine. “Like before the accident?”
I shake my head. “I no longer compare the two. It serves no purpose. That part of my life is over, almost like it happened to another man.” Gesturing to myself and to the crutches leaning against the table, I grin. “This is who I am now. And all my successes, happiness, pain, and sadness belonged to this life.”
“Thank you for sharing that with me, Lee,” she says softly.
A shuddering breath leaves me. “It felt right. I was asking for you to consider a relationship. For a chance to share my life with you, so you deserved to know.”
“Lee...”
“No,” I say forcefully, shaking my head. “This wasn’t to make you feel guilty about your decision. You have your reasons, and I have mine.”
“Let's try.”
CHAPTER SEVEN
BLAIRE
The words pop out.
But they’re true. I want to try.
Whatever is happening between us is more than just sexual attraction. I know it. I can feel it.
Why else would I have been so devastated at missing our dinner date last night? I’ve had to cancel dates before at the last minute due to issues with my mother and I never batted an eye or even worried about rescheduling.
With Lee it’s different. He’s different, and so are my feelings for him. Because I do have feelings for him.
Even if we don't work out as a couple, I don’t want to give up on us so easily. Especially not after all Lee has faced. He didn’t give up, and my problems pale compared to the challenges of healing a crushed body and forging ahead with living.
“I can't promise we'll work out or that I'll be worth it. I just know I feel something for you, and I don't want to regret not taking this chance.”
Lee’s serious face morphs into a smile the likes of which I’ve never seen him wear before. It peels back the years of stress and hurt, and I see the man he was before the accident. A man just as gorgeous as the one staring across the table at me and holding my hand.
It's the smile of a man that I could love.
“Blaire,” he breathes and the way his husky voice practically purrs my name, sending desire shooting through me.
“Lee, I want you.” I pull my hand away from his and stand up. Moving around the table, the napkin on my lap drops to the floor and I pay it no mind, all my attention on the man watching me with heat blazing in his pale blue eyes.
He pushes his chair back from the table and the way his thick biceps strain the material of his dress shirt has me scurrying faster around the table. I go to straddle his lap and then freeze with one leg raised.
“Will I hurt you if I sit on you?”
Lee laughs, his hands grabbing my hips and holding me steady as I finish slinging a leg over his and lower myself until my core is pressed directly over the hard bulge in his black dress slacks.
We both moan at the contact.
Looping my arms around his neck, I attack his mouth, kissing him as if I’ve been missing him for years. Because in truth, I have been missing him. His taste, his scent, everything about him calls to me.
From the moment I saw him, I was infatuated with him and fought that attraction.
Which I see now was crazy.
There’s no fighting what’s between us. It was inevitable.
And now that I surrendered to that, joy sings through my veins and all the want and need that’s been building and building demands to be satisfied.
And going by the thick feel of Lee’s cock under me, I’m going to be very satisfied.
