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“You remember when I went to Houston?” Leland asks. “I had a hot woman come and basically offer herself to me. I bought her a drink—”
“Stop. I don’t need to know.” I hold up a hand.
“You do.”
His eyes burn and that lump returns to my throat.
“You do, because you’re fucking hell bent on ruining this, of fighting when you don’t have to. Of making up monsters because where I’m sitting, there aren’t any. Not even your soon-to-be ex. He’s just an old memory that nuisance.” He pauses.
The words are soft, but they’re full of steel.
Leland continues. “I bought this hot woman a drink and I made polite conversation, and then as soon as I could, I went to my room alone. Because of you. Because if I hadn’t met you again, I sure as shit would have been all over that. But I wasn’t interested. There was just one woman in my head taking up real estate. You.”
“You want me because you want to screw the girl you screwed long ago. You don’t really want me.”
Anger flashes like the lightning. “Don’t tell me what I want and don’t want. And I never said this was anything but what it is.”
“And what’s that, Leland?”
“Two people who want each other. Am right?”
He’s so right, but I still don’t know what that means, and he holds out his hand.
I want to reach for it. I do. I want so badly to lose myself in him.
“Unless,” he says, “you’re looking for something specific. And if you are, I want you enough to see where this goes. That’s what I can give you.”
“Willa—”
“Is nothing to me. You saw me removing her. I wasn’t expecting her. Why the actual fuck would I invite you only to fuck someone else?”
“Billy would do that.”
He frowns and that anger is sparking now. “Do I look like that cretin?”
“No—”
“Then quit fucking comparing us, Sarah. I don’t like it and I won’t put up with it. I came here for you. I want you so much, I drove all this way to see you, so give me a little credit.”
“I’m not.”
“Yes, you fucking are whether you realize it or not. And Christ, woman, I drove here. In a fucking storm, on a day I should be working, to see you and sort this shit out. Shit, I might add, that shouldn’t need sorting. I’m so angry right now. You know you’re the only woman I think about. Or you damn well should.”
He’s not trying to be charming, he’s pissed off and snarky, and that’s more seductive to me right then over any smooth moves and sweet words, and I find myself half stumbling to him.
Leland takes my hand and tumbles me to the bed, taking my mouth in a hard, angry, lust-filled kiss.
“Are you giving me credit?” he asks.
“You get two gold coins. For now.’
He smooths my hair and nuzzles my ear. “Do you want more? Are you looking for something specific, Sarah?”
Those words ping around in me and I gaze up at him as he works the buttons on my shirt to slip one large hand in my bra. And my traitorous body pushes up against him, filling his hand.
“I’m not.”
“And I’m not the marrying type. But for what it’s worth, you’re the first woman in forever that I want like I do.”
