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“Be more specific. Maybe it’s that I’m not your type.”
My brows knit. “I never said that.”
“But you’ve been acting like it.” Hollyn lifts her shoulders and begins swimming backward. “It’s alright. A girl can take a hint.”
“Hollyn—” She dips her head underwater, dismissing the whole conversation, but it’s not lost on me that I’m making things worse. That instead of making this night something else entirely, I’m making it so this poor girl feels rejected twice.
With each second that goes by, the more irritated I get. I have three more days with her and the Boston Wildcats, and I don’t want them to be awkward. I don’t wish for there to be some wall between us. I don’t want Hollyn to believe that I don’t think she’s attractive or not someone whom I’ve thought about.
I have.
However, it still changes nothing.
Erasing the space between us, I’m in her immediate orbit when she breaks through the surface, and those blue eyes crack open to see me towering over her.
I know my scowl speaks a million and one things. But this woman drives me absolutely fucking crazy.
“You didn’t let me finish,” I growl. “Don’t go dismissing the conversation like a child.”
“Read the room,” she conveys simply. “I don’t need any more explanation.”
My eyes narrow deeper. “Maybe I’m not done.”
“I wish you would be.”
What the fuck?
My fingers latch onto her biceps, and I feel the warmth of her naked skin along mine. The fact that she’s this close isn’t fucking lost on me.
It’s all that consumes me.
“Don’t presume to know what I’m thinking,” I growl through my teeth. “You know nothing about me.”
“I know that you don’t date women who aren’t givers.”
“That’s vague.”
“But I’m not stupid.”
“And what does that have to do with you and me?”
“Nothing,” she replies matter-of-factly. “Because you haven’t made a move yet, and I’m still waiting for you to kiss me.”
“I don’t want to kiss you.”
“What are you holding me for then?”
“Because I want to fuck you into next week, but I don’t want to regret it.”
Hollyn stares openly at me, then asks, “Why would you regret that?”
“Because you want something more. And I’m not it.”
Hollyn begins to withdraw from my hold, and I permit it. There’s no use in ping-ponging this idea back and forth. But when she rises to stand, that’s when all rationality of the matter wipes out.
It doesn’t exist.
“I’m only offering tonight, Reid,” she mutters so softly that I barely hear her over my thudding heartbeat. “Nothing else.”
