Page 73 of It Had To Be Us

A laugh escapes me at her choice of words. “But you’re not ruling it out for the future?” I say, even though I’m still a little uncomfortable about the direction we’ve gone.

“Logan.”

“Hey, that’s how you worded it. ‘I don’t know if I’m ready…’That implies that you might be ready one day.” I bounce my eyebrows, reverting back to our casual banter and pushing my feelings aside because she clearly doesn’t want them right now.

A sassy grin appears on Dani’s face as she sits up. “You’re right, and who knows. Maybe you can show me your wicked ways.”

I raise an eyebrow as I laugh. “My wicked ways?”

“Do I have to spell it out?” Dani says, covering her face in her hands.

“I think you might.”

“My sex life was great…” she trails off, and I internally cringe. I don’t want to hear about this. “But it was…comfortable.”

“Comfortable?”

“We never really tried new things. And it kind of became routine. I think maybe it’s time I changed that.” She shrugs with a tiny smirk and waits for my response.But what the fuck do I say to that?She really doesn’t see me as more than a bit of fun.Fuck!That’s less than ideal.

“So, you think I’m the guy to help with that?”

“I think you’re the perfect guy. You’re hot, you have experience—how much, I’d rather not know—and you don’t want anything more.”

I force a grin and reply exactly how she’d expect me to. “You think I’m hot?”

Dani laughs. “Of course that’s all you heard.”

Actually, I heard it all. I’m just trying not to dwell on the fact that you still see me as nothing more than a player.

“Okay, well, I guess this could be fun.” I shrug.I’m totally cool with this.Sort of.“Do you trust me?” I ask, rising to my feet.

Dani’s brows furrow as she smiles. “Who are you? Aladdin?”

A smile lights up my face. “For you, I can be. I mean, we have this carpet, and…”

I sing the opening of “A Whole New World” as I hold out my hand for her to take.

“Do you trust me?” I repeat.Because I want to show you the world.

I see a flash of hesitation in her eyes, and I take it as a good thing. That maybe deep down she doesn’t want whatever she thinks this is. Maybe she wants more.

When she finally takes my hand, I pull her up until she’s standing, then lift her off the rug before packing away our things.

“Ah, what are you doing?” she asks, an adorably confused expression on her face.

“Packing up. You said so yourself; it’s getting late. You have to work tomorrow.”

“What happened to showing me the world?” she asks, disappointment clear on her face.But why?

Taking her hand in mine, I curl our fingers together and kiss her knuckles. “If I go along with this little game—and that’s a bigif—it has to be spontaneous.”

I have no idea what the fuck I’m doing as I walk her to the parking lot. I should just come clean about everything. Tell her that I don’t want to be that guy, the player she thinks I am. But I’m terrified of whatnotbeing that guy means and what will happen if I change. For Dani, though, I want to take that chance. Or at the very least, talk about it.

We’re both silent during our walk, and it’s not until we’ve reached Dani’s car that I realize we’re completely alone. It must be a lot later than I thought.

Dani throws her belongings onto her back seat and pauses near the driver’s door. I tell myself over and over just to kiss her cheek goodbye and then be on my way, but as she looks up at me with expectant eyes, all of that goes out the window, and I curse under my breath. “Fuck.”

“What—”

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