“Caught you looking too, sweetheart,” I say to myself.
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“Congratulations, man,” I tell Luke after the ceremony.
“Thanks, Adam.” He pulls Shayne in for a kiss. “I am one lucky son of a bitch, that’s for sure.”
The two of them walk away and go sit at a table with Luke’s parents, leaving me standing by myself for a few moments.
My eyes roam around the yard until they land on the woman who seems to take my breath away every time I look at her. I have no idea who in the hell she is talking to, but I don’t like the way he’s looking at her. On the other hand, she is smiling up at him like the cat that ate the fucking canary.
Oh, hell no, he did not just bend down and whisper something in her ear. Fuck me, that dirty motherfucker just touched her! I don’t even know what the hell I’m doing, but before I even know it, my feet are moving towards them. Calming myself down before I reach her, I stop a foot away from them.
“Hey, Erin. Can I talk to you for a minute please?” I ask firmly. She looks up at me with confusion written all over her face.
“Um, excuse me a minute, Stephen.” She glares at me as she excuses herself and we take a few steps away.
“What do you want, Adam?” she says with annoyance.
Treading very lightly, I tell her exactly what it is I want as I take a hold of her hand and place it against my chest. My heart seems to have its own beat when it comes to her.
“I want you, Erin,” I say with determination.
“You what?” she says with a stupefied look on her face.
“You heard me. I won’t repeat myself.”
She tries to say something a few times but nothing is coming out of her mouth, so I pull her into me as close as I can get her and crash my lips against hers. At first she doesn’t open up to me but I know she wants this as much as I do. As soon as I nibble on her bottom lip and I hear the whimper come out of her mouth, I take full advantage. It’s the sexiest noise I have ever heard in my life. I don’t care that we’re standing here where everyone can see us; all I care about right now is the fact that I have Erin in my arms, and the way she is kissing me back with her tongue all over mine is enough to drive me crazy.
Ever since I kissed this woman months ago when I moved her and Sierra up here from Texas, I have not been able to get her out of my mind. Erin starts to break away from me as we both come down from what had to be the most sensual kiss I have ever had.
“No, love. Don’t pull away from me. We have both wanted that kiss for months now and you know it. Don’t deny this attraction we have towards each other, Erin.”
She looks down at the ground. I place my hand under her chin and lift her face to look at me, but her eyes are closed and tears are starting to run down her cheeks.
“Open those beautiful baby blues, Erin, and look at me,” I plead.
She does so and what I see staring back at me is not the look of a woman who just experienced the best kiss of her life; it is the look of a woman who is mentally and physically broken.
“God, Erin. Don’t look at me like that. Whatever it is, just let me in. I promise you I am not going to hurt you.”
“I…I can’t, Adam. Don’t you see? It’s not you, it’s me. I just don’t trust easily anymore. And I know you can do so much better than me.”
I am shocked by what she is saying. “Better than you? Erin, there is no one better than you.”
“But there is, Adam. I have nothing to give you.”
“That is where you’re wrong. You have everything to give me, and whether you want to believe it or not, you just gave me motivation baby.”
“You don’t mean that, Adam. How could you want someone like me?”
What the fuck did she just say?
“Erin, go get Sierra and let’s go home and talk about this.”
She shakes her head back and forth a few times and the words that come out of her mouth next about knock me on my ass.
“Speaking of home...Sierra and I will be moving out as soon as we can.”
With that, she turns and walks into the house, leaving me standing there with my mouth gaping open.
Leaving Shayne’s reception early was the last fucking thing I wanted to do, so thank God she understood when I told her what happened between Erin and me. I decided to stay at my office for a few days to give us both some time to cool down after what happened. Damn it, what in the hell do I have to do to get through to that girl? I care about her. Shit!
I pull my truck into my office and kill the engine. I grab my clothes and as I am climbing out, my phone vibrates in my pocket. When I take it out to see who is on the screen, I roll my eyes as I see Tonya’s phone number flashing across it. Tonya has been calling at least two or three times a week for the past three months trying to get me to hook up with her again, but even though my dick twitches in my pants and I have been using my best friend ‘Miss Right Hand’ to ease the hard-ons I get whenever I think about Erin, there isn’t any other woman I want right now except her. My feelings for her run deeper than wanting to have sex with her. I want to know everything about her.