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“You said no,” I state the obvious.
He shakes his head. “I kept my life and what I did at Club Skyn very far apart.”
“What you do there?” I correct him.
“Did there,” he counters. “My life hasn’t been the same since we had that moment in the private room, Eloise. I searched for you. Hell, I’d stare at every brunette I passed on the street. I took a second glance if I saw a woman who had your curves, but no one in this goddamn city even comes close to resembling you.”
My bottom lip trembles. It’s an outward sign of all of the conflicting emotions ricocheting inside of me. “So, at the wedding?”
“Their wedding.” He chuckles. “I saw you again wearing that little blue dress. Your tits looked amazing. Your smile almost brought me to me knees. I couldn’t take being in the same room with you so I bolted.”
“You went to the hospital,” I correct him. “There was an emergency. Berk told all of us.”
“The emergency was I needed to jerk off while I was thinking of you.”
I want to laugh, but he gave up time with his cousin on one of the biggest days of his life because of his need for me.
“You saved my phone number,” I whisper trying to fit that piece into the bigger puzzle.
“I just needed it,” he says in a low tone. “I just wanted it. I’d pull it up and stare at it. I didn’t intend to use it. It felt like gold to me. I can’t explain it.”
“You don’t have to.” I slide closer to him so I can sit in his lap. “You knew who I was when Daxton collapsed, and at the hospital the next day when you said lamb.”
“I saw the way you reacted to that.” He kisses the side of my neck. “I knew that you figured out our connection then.”
I nod. “I did. It almost knocked me off my feet.”
“You ran,” he reminds me. “You took off out of that cafeteria without a glance back.”
I chuckle. “I had to. I needed to breathe. I had to think.”
He reaches for my chin to tilt my head up until our eyes meet again. “Tell me why you ran out of the club after you blew me, Eloise. I wanted more, but you were gone before I could beg you to stay.”
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
Gaines
That question has beena thorn in my side, and my heart, for more than two years.
She bolted when I wanted to fuck her. I wanted more than that, though. I wanted her real name and her phone number. I wanted to meet her back in that club every night after that, but she left.
Her hand drops to the center of her chest. “I thought I was going to pass out.”
The doctor in me takes over. “That means what? What were you feeling?”
“Amazing.” She smiles. “I came harder on your hand than I ever had with any guy in any way.”
I want to take pride in that, but my concern for her is overshadowing everything else.
“When you came down my throat, I was in awe.” She rubs the side of her face. “The sensation, the taste, and those sounds you made… I felt lightheaded. My heart was pounding so hard it wasdrowning out everything. It must have been an adrenaline rush. I hadn’t experienced anything like that before.”
That makes sense.
“I ran because I couldn’t breathe.” She smiles. “I felt overwhelmed by it all, and I think, and please don’t laugh, but I felt like I was falling in love with you.”
I sit stone faced because hearing that now, even if it’s in the context of a fond recollection from two years ago, hits me hard.
I want her to say that to me again, and mean it now.
