Total pages in book: 77
Estimated words: 75907 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 380(@200wpm)___ 304(@250wpm)___ 253(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75907 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 380(@200wpm)___ 304(@250wpm)___ 253(@300wpm)
She tilts her head to the side. “You can have it back, if I can sit in your lap.”
I lick my lips and smile down at her. “I remember when you tried that on me in high school.”
“It worked.”
“Yeah, it did. But I’m good right now. You sit.”
She pokes her bottom lip out in a little pout. “That’s boring.”
“Come on, Sarah, we need more drinks.”
June pulls Sarah away, and I’m left with the guys.
“Well, looks like Sarah’s found her flirting mojo again,” Wolfe says, wiggling his eyebrows.
“It’s not like that. We’re just friends.”
“Listen, if that’s what you consider friendly interaction, you and I need to have a conversation about the birds and the bees,” Apollo replies. “That girl has been eye fucking you since she got here.”
“I think it’s refreshing to see the mischief back in her eyes,” Wolfe adds. “She’s not so sad or unsure.”
“She’s more herself,” I agree, and watch as she laughs with the other two girls at the bar. “Hey, I’ll be back. I need to run to the can.”
“But it’s your turn,” Apollo calls out.
“Let Wolfe take it,” I reply over my shoulder.
But when I turn down the hallway to the restroom, I hear someone behind me, and turn to find Sarah standing there, a happy smile on her gorgeous face.
“You okay?” I ask her.
“Sure. You?”
“I’m good.”
I turn for the men’s room, but she slides her hand in my back pocket and stops me in my tracks.
“I can’t go in there. It’s against the law.”
I turn and smile down at her. “What do you need, pretty girl?”
Her face softens. “Aw, you used to call me that all the time. I don’t know, I just wanted to talk to you without the others.”
“About what?”
She leans in close to me, and I know without a shadow of a doubt, that she’s going to kiss me.
So, I press my fingertips to her lips, and she scowls at me.
“Hey,” she says against my fingers.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
Her eyes flash. “In case you missed it, I’ve been flirting with you all damn night.”
“I didn’t miss it.” Now there’s hurt there, and I feel like a complete moron. “Sarah, you’ve been drinking, and we’re friends, and—”
“Forget it,” she says and yanks herself away from me. “You seem to think that I don’t know my own mind when I’ve had a little liquor. I’ve had two drinks, Tanner, just enough to loosen up a bit, but definitely not enough to lose control. I know what I’m doing, but I’ll gladly go find someone else who wants to kiss me and wants my attention.”
She turns to walk away, but I catch her by the elbow, whirl her around, and pin her to the wall.
“You think I don’t fucking want you?” I press against her and brush my lips against her ear. “You have no idea how badly I want you, what I want to do to you. But goddamn it, I promised you that I’d be a gentleman. Not to mention that once I start with you, I won’t be able to stop, and I refuse to be anything but mindful where you’re concerned.”
“No one’s asking you to stop,” she says. Her chest heaves as she breathes heavily and clings to me, her hands fisted in the T-shirt at my sides. “Damn it, Tanner, no one is asking you to stop.”
Chapter Five
Sarah
I can’t stop staring at his lips. All I’ve wanted all freaking night is for Tanner to kiss me. He was a grade A kisser when we were teenagers, fumbling around in the few moments we could steal away here and there.
I bet he’s out of the stratosphere now.
“I can’t do this here,” he whispers and swallows hard, as if telling me no is killing him, which is good because it’s absolutely destroying me. “Not here, not now, Sarah. Not like this after all this time.”
“So, you’re not turning me down because I repulse you?”
His eyes widen, he furrows his brows, and then he laughs.
Just tips his head forward and laughs.
“Repulse,” he mutters. “Sarah, I’ve wanted you since I was sixteen fucking years old, and that hasn’t changed for one minute. But honey, we’re in a public place with our friends, and what I want to do to you is absolutely nobody’s business.”
I bite my lip at the idea of what he might want to do to me.
I can’t help it. I haven’t had sex in a really, really long time.
And even when it was new, and neither of us knew what in the hell we were doing, having sex with Tanner was always incredible.
“Don’t look at me like that.” His eyes have narrowed on me.
“Like what?”
“Like you want to eat me alive.”
I offer him a shy smile and shrug a shoulder. “I do want to eat you alive. And I decided to throw the idea of awkwardness out the window because it’s only weird if we make it that way, and I’m done with it. I’ve spoken it into the universe.”