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My spine straightens, and I pull my shoulders back as I stare at her.Look at me, Jasmin. Look at me so I can signal that is a terrible idea.
“Rose is busy.”
“I’m busy.”
We both blurt at the same time.
I glare at Dax, and he looks back at me, a muscle in his jaw tensing.
“So now you can be busy together.” Jasmin kisses Dax on the cheek and then smiles at me. “See you later, Rose.” She walks out of the office leaving the two of us staring at each other.
He clears his throat, his Adam’s apple moving in his neck, making the edge of the bird’s wing appear like it’s fluttering.
“I need to get these papers done today. Can you come?”
“I thought you said I was busy.” I arch a brow.
It’s easier being pissed at him. When I’m pissed, I don’t have to think about how tender he was when I was cleaning him up, resting his hands on my hips and looking at me like I was the most precious thing he had ever touched. I don’t have to think about how when he says “breathe”and tells me he can feel my pulse in my wrist, it calms me like nothing else. I don’t have to think about him kissing my forehead, and how his skin touching mine sets a burst of energy off inside my core, like a bunch of fireworks.
And I don’t have to think about how I came twice last night while holding his picture above me and imagining he was fucking me so deep I would feel deliciously bruised today.
“Are you?” His deep brown eyes penetrate me.
“I suppose I can make time if you want me to come.”
“I do,” he replies without missing a beat. “But I won’t force you. I want you to feel comfortable, Rose. But there’s no one else I would rather be with. Believe me.”
I search his eyes, narrowing my own. I can’t work him out.No one else he’d rather be with?Yet, he can easily hold me on the grass last night with his lips pressed into my hair, saying I need to live my life, with conviction in his voice, and open up to me about his family’s history, and then tell me he can’t promise me a thing, all in the same breath.
“I never know what to believe with you, Dax. You’re a puzzle with no solution.”
His gaze darkens and he stalks over to me.
“Don’t,” he hisses.
“Don’t what?”
He looks into my eyes, his mouth set in a grim line.
“Don’t make out I’ve lied to you. I’ve never lied to you, Rose.”
“You just talk in riddles.” I snort.
He clasps my chin in a flash, leaning so close his breath warms my lips, and they part of their own accord.Traitors.
“I told you. My life. It’s fucked up,” he rasps.
“So is mine. That’s just an excuse. Just admit it. You don’t like me,” I say, stopping myself before I wince at how pathetic I sound.
His brows shoot up his forehead, and he falters, his head jerking backward.
“That’s what you think?”
“It’s what you tell me every time you go all weird and cryptic. Just forget it.” I try to twist out of his grasp, but his hand tightens on my chin, holding me in place.
“You came here to make your life better. Not to complicate it. What kind of person would I be to steal that chance from you?” He screws his face up, his eyes roaming all over me before coming back to hold mine. “Ican’ttouch you, Rose.” His chest heaves against mine as he hisses, lowering his lips so they brush against mine. “I can’t touch you. Even though all I want to do isfuckingtouch you. It’s all I think about night and day. It consumes me, Sunbeam. It fuckingownsevery moment.”
He breathes against my lips, so light, my brain barely registers it, before it’s gone. He steps back and shakes his head, looking at me in regret.
