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I held my breath, waiting for his answer, but his focus was on his plate. He was busy slicing off another chunk of chicken, so he didn’t answer right away, and I held my breath as I waited.
What if he said he didn’t want kids? Was I prepared for this to be no more than a fling?
No. The answer was no. I felt drawn to this guy. It was something I’d never felt with anyone before. I wanted him to be in my life. And I wanted this to be more than just sex.
“I’ve had a hard time finding someone who wants to be with me for me,” he said. “Women I’ve dated seem more interested inbeing seen with me than actually being with me. You know what I mean?”
I couldn’t relate to that. Nobody had ever been all that eager to be seen with me. But I nodded anyway.
“People also assume you’re one of the Pleasure Valley playboys,” I said.
He narrowed his eyes at me. “Do you think I’m one of those?”
I stared at him a long moment, then shook my head. “You don’t come across that way, but that doesn’t stop people from stereotyping.”
He then said words that surprised me. “I’ve been celibate for over a year. It was my goal this year. Three hundred and sixty-five days with no sex.”
“The year’s not up yet,” I pointed out. “You just have a couple more weeks to go.”
I was already calculating how many days we’d have to wait when he responded. “It was easy before today.”
“Today?” I asked, my voice sounding hoarse.
“After today, I just want one thing.” He stared at me, the intensity in his eyes increasing. “Undo the belt of your robe. I want to see you naked.”
6
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Fuck my goal.
As I watched Sammie open her robe, it seemed absurd that I’d decided to stay celibate for a year. If I’d known my top salesperson was as smart, funny, and sexy as the woman I’d seen today, I wouldn’t have wanted to go a minute without sex. I would have found a way to get to know her outside of work. I would have made this happen much sooner.
Her nipples were perfectly pink. Beautiful. I couldn’t stop staring at her breasts. I might stay here for the rest of my life, admiring her beautiful body.
“Now you,” Sammie said, picking up her fork again. Her gaze lowered to my chest, but I still wasn’t sure what she was asking.
“Me?”
“Your shirt. Take it off.”
She didn’t have to tell me twice. I set my fork on my plate and began unbuttoning my cuffs.
“I heard you,” I said as I unbuttoned. “I was seated at the desk, doing some work when you turned on the water. I was doing my damnedest to avoid imagining you standing in that shower, naked, when you made a noise. It sounded like a moan.”
I was looking her in the eyes, but her robe gaped open now. She’d draped it on either side of her, and those hard pink nipples teased me. She continued to eat like nothing was out of the ordinary.
She chewed, then swallowed. “I was imagining you coming into the shower behind me. You put your arms around me and pressed up against me. I could feel you. You were hard. I wanted you inside me.”
I shrugged out of the shirt, letting it fall behind me, not taking my eyes off her. She wanted me inside her?
That could be arranged.
“Show me,” I said. “I want to see how you touched yourself when you were thinking about me.”
Her eyes widened slightly. So slightly, in fact, that if I hadn’t been watching closely, I wouldn’t have caught it. And then she looked down at her plate. Neither of us had finished our dinner, but I had an appetite for one thing and one thing only. Sammie Benson.
“Okay,” she said, setting her napkin on the table. “On one condition. You take your clothes off too.”
